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News quiz, week ending July 8

Elie Wiesel died last Saturday. What is the title of his autobiographical account of life in Auschwitz?

On Monday, NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit. When did Juno leave Earth?

What is Diet Pepsi Classic?

Who is Irvine Randle and why did he gain internet fame?

Who was “extremely careless” in her handling of classified information, according to the FBI?

What soccer star from Argentina was hit by a Spanish court with a 21-month prison sentence and a 2 million euro fine?

What is the Chilcot report?

The U.K. will soon have a female prime minister. Who is she likely to be?

In separate incidents, police in Baton Rouge and St. Paul fatally shot black men. What were the men’s names?

At least 11 police officers were injured, five fatally, in a sniper attack in which city?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

“Night”

August 2011

Diet Pepsi with Aspartame. The company revived the recipe to halt a slide in sales after removing the artificial sweetener last summer.

A 54-year-old teacher from Houston who became an Internet sensation for being an insanely hot granddad

Hillary Clinton

Lionel Messi

A report by Sir John Chilcot, a former British civil servant, that found misjudgment by former Prime Minister Tony Blair in the run-up to war in Iraq

Either Home Secretary Theresa May or Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom

Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

Dallas