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News quiz, week ending Aug. 5

Who wrote last Sunday in The Washington Post: “Donald Trump said he has made a lot of sacrifices. He doesn’t know what the word sacrifice means”?

Ride-hailing service Uber gave up its battle to enter which country?

On Monday, U.S. warplanes began an offensive against the Islamic State group in which country?

Who said in a statement released Monday, “While our party has bestowed upon [Donald Trump] the nomination, it is not accompanied by unfettered license to defame those who are best among us”?

Apple swapped its emoji of a pistol for an emoji of what?

What is the title of the latest installment in the Harry Potter series?

Who said that Donald Trump is “woefully unprepared” and “unfit” to be president?

The U.S. Supreme Court blocked an order from a lower court that directed a public school district in Gloucester County, Virginia to do what?

A U.S. company got permission to land a spacecraft where?

What does the Twitter hashtag #palletsofcash refer to?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Ghazala Khan, whose son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq in 2004

China

Libya

Senator John McCain

A squirt gun

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

President Barack Obama

Allow a transgender student who identifies as a boy to use the boys’ bathroom at the high school

On the moon

Delivery of $400 million by the U.S. to Iran to settle a failed arms deal that dates to the overthrow of the shah in 1979. The settlement was announced in January on the same day a nuclear pact with Iran was completed and Tehran released four American hostages. Critics (and some members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard) referred to the payment as ransom. According to the Obama administration, the payment marked the first installment of a $1.7 billion refund and had nothing to do with Iran’s agreeing to release the prisoners.