1. Italy’s highest criminal court acquitted whom Friday in the death of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007?
2. American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko blasted off Friday to spend 350 days aboard the International Space Station – about twice as long as visitors usually stay. What do scientists hope to study from the duration of the trip?
3. Who left “One Direction” this week?
a) Niall Horan, b) Harry Styles, c) Liam Payne, d) Zayn Malik
4. Which two giants of the food industry announced plans to merge?
5. The man who led Singapore’s transition to self-rule and later became the republic’s first prime minister – a post he held for 31 years – died Monday at age 91. Who was he?
6. The remains of which British monarch were reinterred this week, more than 500 years after he was killed in battle?
7. What was the intended route of the Germanwings flight that crashed Tuesday in a mountainous region of southern France?
8. This app, which is less than a month old and lets users share live videos with their Twitter followers, said Thursday it has raised $14 million in funding. What is the name of the app?
Answers
1) Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian former boyfriend; 2) The effect of spaceflight on the human body; 3) d; 4) H.J. Heinz and Kraft Foods; 5) Lee Kuan Yew; 6) Richard III; 7) Barcelona to Düsseldorf; 8) Meerkat