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News quiz, week ending July 29

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bombing last Saturday that killed at least 80 people in what city?

Who won the Tour de France?

How many times has he won the Tour?

Which company agreed to buy Yahoo’s internet business?

Match the quote (letter) with the speaker (number):

a) “Don’t boo, vote.”

b) “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

c) “When they go low, we go high.”

d) “In the spring of 1971, I met a girl.”

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1) Michelle Obama

2) Former President Bill Clinton

3) Hillary Clinton

4) President Barack Obama

John Hinckley Jr. will be freed from a mental hospital, a judge ruled. Why was Hinckley hospitalized?

What breakthrough did the ALS ice bucket challenge deliver?

A seven-year-old girl died on Tuesday after being hit by a rock thrown by what resident of the Rabat Zoo in Morocco?

How many Baltimore police officers were found guilty of crimes in the death of Freddie Gray?

Who became the world’s third-richest person?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Kabul

Chris Froome

Three

Verizon

a, 4; b, 3; c, 1; d, 2

He tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. A jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity.

One of the projects it funded pinpointed a gene called NEK1 as a likely culprit.

An elephant

Zero

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, whose fortune is estimated to be worth $65.3 billion. He trails only Bill Gates, worth $78 billion, and Amancio Ortega, founder of the Zara clothing chain, whose fortune is estimated to be $73.1 billion.