1. Name at least four of the six countries that are negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program.
2. Why did men in Istanbul march in skirts?
3. Why did the family of pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing visit 10 Downing Street?
4. What event next month will be “an unprecedented test for Europe’s electricity system,” according to the continent’s Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity?
5. President Obama vetoed a bill that would have approved the Keystone XL pipeline. Where would the pipeline start and end?
6. In what city did officials spot drones flying over major landmarks?
7. What do we know about the length of eyelashes in humans and other mammals, thanks to researchers at Georgia Tech?
8. The militant from ISIS known as Jihadi John reportedly grew up in what city?
Answers
1) The U.S., France, U.K., Germany, Russia and China; 2) To show support for women who have been victimized by a recent wave of male violence in Turkey; 3) To demand the British government pardon as many as 49,000 other men who, like Turing, were convicted for having consensual sexual relationships with other men before homosexuality was decriminalized in the U.K.; 4) A solar eclipse that will occur on March 20; 5) The pipeline would run from Hardisty, Alberta (Canada) to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would connect with an existing pipe that carries oil to the Gulf of Mexico; 6) Paris; 7) That eyelashes are one-third as long as the eye is wide, the ideal length for channeling airflow and reducing evaporation; 8) London