1. Which two nations signed a peace deal?
a. Yemen and Saudi Arabia
b. Syria and Turkey
c. Ethiopia and Eritrea
2. David Davis and Boris Johnson resigned from the British government. What positions, respectively, did each hold?
a. Brexit secretary and foreign secretary
b. Chancellor of the Exchequer and Brexit secretary
c. Home Affairs secretary and foreign secretary
3. Who are the world’s three richest people, in order, according to Bloomberg?
a. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett
b. Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg
c. Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg
4. Starbucks said it would stop using disposable plastic straws by 2020. Roughly how many straws would the move eliminate annually?
a. One million
b. One billion
c. Two billion
5. Where did Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, attend college and law school?
a. Stanford
b. Harvard
c. Yale
6. How many boys were rescued from a cave in Thailand
a. 10
b. 12
c. 13
7. Which of the following social networks announced steps to remove suspicious accounts?
a. Twitter
b. Snapchat
c. Facebook
8. Elon Musk said he would fund which of the following?
a. Research into so-called superbugs
b. Research to develop the world’s fastest quantum computer
c. Installation of filters on taps in houses in Flint, Mich. that have contaminated supplies of water
9. The U.S. Department of Justice charged 12 Russian with which of the following in 2016:
a. Meeting with representatives then-candidate Donald Trump
b. Hacking the Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee
c. Hijacking Facebook and other social media platforms
10. Which of the following two teams will meet in soccer’s World Cup final?
a. England and France
b. France and Croatia
c. France and Russia
Answers
1. c
2. a
3. c
4. a
5. c
6. b
7. a
8. c
9. b
10. b