1. What Pacific nation was devastated by Cyclone Pam?
a) Nauru, b) Palau, c) Vanuatu, d) Maluku
2. Millions of people took to the streets in what country to air their frustration with a faltering economy and a corruption scandal involving the state-run oil company?
3. Investigators in Spain said they might have located the remains of what writer?
4. Microsoft said Wednesday that its Windows 10 operating system, which is due later this year, would mark the end of what product that was first launched in 1995?
5. “Just because we removed the word patient from the statement doesn’t mean we are going to be impatient,” Janet Yellen, chairwoman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, told reporters. To what was she referring?
6. What threat from the U.S. may have prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel to backtrack from comments, made on the eve of Tuesday’s election, in which he ruled out the establishment of a Palestinian state?
7. What evidence emerged this week that shows the Arctic is being impacted by climate change?
8. Affiliates of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for attacks that left dozens of people dead in what two countries?
Answers
1) c; 2) Brazil; 3) Miguel de Cervantes; 4) Internet Explorer; 5) The Fed’s thinking about whether and when to raise interest rates; 6) That the U.S. might stop siding with Israel at the U.N. and in other international institutions; 7) At its peak, ice covered about 14.5 million kilometers of the northern oceans this winter, about 130,000 square kilometers less than the previous lowest maximum in 2011; 8) Tunisia and Yemen