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News quiz, week ending May 27

Who won the Preakness Stakes?

Who is the new manager of Manchester United?

Who was Mullah Mansour?

The U.S. lifted its decades-old arms embargo on what country?

A strike by oil refinery workers in what country led to shortages at gas stations?

Baltimore police officer Edward Nero was found not guilty of criminal charges in who’s death?

What musical was the top-grossing show on Broadway last season?

Which member of the European Union reached an agreement with creditors?

President Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit which Japanese city?

Who bankrolled Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

Exaggerator
José Mourinho
The leader of the Afghan Taliban, who was killed by the U.S. in a drone strike last Saturday
Vietnam
France
Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Baltimore man who died last year after suffering a spinal cord injury in police custody
“The Lion King”
Greece
Hiroshima, where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945
Peter Thiel, a billionaire co-founder of PayPal who asserted that he was outed as being gay by Gawker in an article published in 2007