1. SpaceX tried unsuccessfully to do what?
2. A suicide bomber killed at least 19 people Saturday in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri. How old is the bomber thought to have been?
3. Woody Allen will create his first-ever TV series for what company?
4. What group claimed responsibility for the attack that killed 12 at the offices of Charlie Hebdo?
5. Who resigned as Italy’s president?
6. Which of the following films will not vie for best picture at the 87th annual Academy Awards?
a) “The Imitation Game” b) “American Sniper” c) “Still Alice” d) “The Grand Budapest Hotel” e) “Selma” f) “Whiplash” g) “The Theory of Everything”
7. Target said it will close all its stores in what country?
8. Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson achieved what first?
Answers:
1) To return a booster rocket to Earth and land the rocket upright on a barge; 2) 10 years old; 3) Amazon; 4) Al-Qaida in Yemen; 5) Giorgio Napolitano; 6) “Still Alice;” 7) Canada; 8) An ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in a single expedition without ropes to pull them up