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News quiz, week ending May 20

Which country won this year’s Eurovision song contest?

Who won the Man Booker Prize?

In what company did Warren Buffett invest $1 billion?

Who is the embattled president of Venezuela?

Who is the new president of Taiwan?

To what city was EgyptAir Flight 804 headed when it disappeared over the Mediteranean Sea?

Which medical testing company reportedly voided two years of test results?

CBS’s chief executive said the following this week about whom: “He broke ground in war reporting and made a name that will forever be synonymous with 60 Minutes?”

How many words (to the nearest billion) does Google translate a day, according to a presentation by the company at its IO 2016 conference this week?

The price of milk in the U.S. fell to a six-year low. How much, on average, does a gallon of whole milk in the U.S. cost?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Ukraine

South Korean author Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith for “The Vegetarian,” a three-part novel

Apple

Nicolás Maduro

Tsai Ing-wen

Cairo

Theranos

Morley Safer, the newsman and 60 Minutes correspondent who died on Thursday

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