Category: News

1. What prompted protests to erupt at universities across Egypt on Sunday?

2. On Monday, this Chinese company rejected charges by Target, Home Depot and other retail firms that it would “decimate” retailers unless Congress passes a law to prevent online shoppers from avoiding sales tax.

3. Namibia’s ruling party on Monday won a landslide victory in both presidential and parliamentary elections. What is the name of the party?

4. On Tuesday, hackers posted online internal documents of this movie studio.

5. The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization this week predicted what about 2014?

6. On Wednesday, this country’s foreign ministry summoned the U.S. charge d’affaires after Senator John McCain called the country’s prime minister a “neo-fascist dictator.”

7. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday asked his country’s central bank to crack down on which group of people?

8. The Justice Department released a report Thursday that found police in this city frequently violated citizens’ civil rights.

9. On Friday, NASA launched its Orion spacecraft on an unmanned test flight. How many times did Orion orbit the Earth?

10. President Obama on Friday nominated Ashton Carter as his new secretary of defense. In what field did Carter earn his doctorate and from which university did he earn it?

11. The producer and director of the next installment in the James Bond series announced this week that this car will accompany 007 in the film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

1) A court ruling to drop criminal charges against former President Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of protestors during the 2011 uprising that ended his rule; 2) Alibaba; 3) SWAPO, which stands for South-West African People’s Organization; 4) Sony Pictures Entertainment; 5) The year will be the warmest on record; 6) Hungary; 7) Speculators against the ruble; 8) Cleveland; 9) Two; 10) Theoretical physics, Oxford University; 11) The Aston Martin DB10

 

1. This player won the World Chess Championship for the second year in a row.

2. The board of this US university adopted a policy of zero tolerance for sexual assaults on campus.

3. The Obama administration issued rules Wednesday to curb emissions of this greenhouse gas.

4. A first folio of Shakespeare’s plays surfaced this week at a library in northern France. The discovery brought to how many the world’s known total of surviving first folios of the bard’s plays?

5. This star cricket player from Australia died Thursday after being hit on the neck during a delivery.

6. This US Supreme Court justice returned home from the hospital, where doctors inserted a stent in the justice’s right coronary artery.

7. This president on Friday was the first non-African head of state to visit a country at the center of the Ebola outbreak. Who is the leader and what country did he visit?

8. This piece of film memorabilia sold Monday for more than $3 million.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

1. Magnus Carlsen of Norway; 2. The University of Virginia; 3. Ozone; 4. 233; 5. Phillip Hughes; 6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg; 7. French President Francois Hollande, Guinea; 8. The Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz