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1. What basis did hundreds of migrants from Central America who massed at the border in Tijuana hope to gain entry to the US?
a. They planned to request asylum after fleeing violence and poverty.
b. They planned to request entry to reunite with family in the US.
c. They planned to request entry based on the promise of work in the US.

2. Who headlined the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner?
a. Seth Myers
b. Michelle Wolf
c. Hasan Minhaj

3. Which of the following best describes Britain’s latest immigration crisis?
a. A scandal over the treatment of migrants from Syria
b. A scandal over the treatment of migrants from Eastern Europe
c. A scandal over the treatment of migrants from former British colonies

4. T-Mobile agreed to buy which company?
a. Verizon Wireless
b. Sprint
c. Boost Mobile

5. Twin bombings in which city killed nine journalists?
a. Kabul
b. Kandahar
c. Karachi

6. What action did the Trump administration take regarding whether to impose tariffs on goods from the European Union?
a. It reaffirmed its decision to impose tariffs.
b. It reversed its decision to impose tariffs.
c. It postponed a decision on whether to impose tariffs.

7. A fire in which city caused the collapse of a building 20 stories high?
a. Sao Paulo
b. Caracas
c. Rome

8. Who reportedly dictated a glowing review of Donald Trump’s health that his physician reportedly wrote in 2015?
a. Harold Bornstein
b. Donald Trump
c. Ronny Jackson

9. Which city is the most polluted in the world, according to the World Health Organization?
a. Cairo
b. Beijing
c. New Delhi

10. Which best describes a settlement between two black men arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia and the city?
a. The city will pay the men $1 each and fund $200,000 for a grant program for high school students who aspire to be entrepreneurs.
b. The city will pay the men $200,000 each and fund $200,000 for a grant program for high school students who aspire to be entrepreneurs.
c. The city will pay the men $500,000 each.

11. Which of the following victims of wrongful accusations did Camille Cosby not compare her husband to?
a. Emmett Till
b. The Central Park Five
c. Darryl Hunt

12. Mark Zuckerberg told developers that Facebook will soon offer which of the following:
a. An online marketplace
b. An online dating service
c. An online site for flight reservations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. a
2. b
3. c
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. a
8. a
9. c
10. a
11. b
12. b

1. Rank the following movies in order of their performance at the U.S. box office over the weekend of April 21 and 22:
a. “I Feel Pretty”
b. “A Quiet Place”
c. “Rampage”

2. Former President Barack Obama will deliver a lecture this July in which country?
a. South Africa
b. Kenya
c. New Zealand

3. What is the name of the British royal baby born this week?
a. Arthur Luis Charles
b. Charles Arthur Luis
c. Louis Arthur Charles

4. Amazon this week began delivering packages to which location:
a. Inside people’s homes
b. Inside parked cars
c. Inside Whole Foods stores

5. Which foreign leader did not visit the White House this week?
a. Angela Merkel
b. Emmanuel Macron
c. Theresa May

6. Who said that, over the long term, flip-flopping by the U.S. on international agreements such as the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate accord is “insane?”
a. Emmanuel Macron
b. Angela Merkel
c. Theresa May

7. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week about which of the following:
a. The Trump administration’s travel ban
b. The Trump administration’s move to end relief for so-called dreamers
c. The scope of the presidential power to pardon

8. Which Trump pick to be secretary of veterans affairs withdrew from consideration?
a. Mike Pompeo
b. Scott Pruitt
c. Ronny Jackson

9. Bill Cosby was convicted of:
a. Aggravated indecent assault
b. Larceny
c. Perjury

10. What first did the meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea mark?
a.The first time a South Korean leader had set foot in the north
b.The first time a North Korean leader had set foot in the south
c.The first time the leaders of North and South Korea have met

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers
1. b, c, a
2. a
3. c
4. b
5. c
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. a
10. b

1. Who headlined the Coachella music festival?
a. Beyoncé
b. Jay-Z
c. Chance the Rapper

2. Desiree Linden became the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in how many years?
a. 18
b. 25
c. 33

3. Who won the Pulitzer Prize for music?
a. Kendrick Lamar
b. Michael Gilbertson
c. Ted Hearne

4. What is the mission of TESS, which NASA launched on Wednesday?
a. To search for the most distant stars
b. To search for planets that resemble Earth
c. To measure the mass of black holes

5. A passenger aboard a flight by which airline died after an engine exploded?
a. Southwest Airlines
b. Delta Airlines
c. United Airlines

6. A victory next month by Stacy Abrams, a Democrat who is running to be governor of Georgia, would mark which of the following firsts?
a. Abrams would be Georgia’s first Democratic governor
b. Abrams would be the first Democratic governor of a southern state in 15 years
c. Abrams would be the first black woman to be the governor of any state in the country

7. Which top U.S. official met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un over Easter weekend?
a. The director of the CIA
b. The ambassador to the UN
c. The national security adviser

8. Which of the following distinctions did Barbara Bush not earn?
a. One half of the longest-married couple in presidential history
b. The first woman in American history to have a son of hers follow his father to the White House
c. The first, first lady to insist on hiring a black press secretary

9. Who is Rashon Nelson ?
a. A forward for the Houston Rockets
b. A black man fatally shot by police in Sacramento
c. One of two black men arrested at a Starbucks in Philadelphia

10. Who is Cuba’s new president?
a. Raul Castro
b. Juan Almeida
c. Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers
1. a
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. a
6. c
7. a
8. b
9. c
10. c

1. A van in which country drove into a crowd, killing and injuring pedestrians?
a. France
b. Spain
c. Germany

2. Russia and Syria blamed which country for an attack on an air base in central Syria that killed 14 people?
a. Turkey
b. Israel
c. Saudi Arabia

3. What was Donald Trump referring to when he talked about “an attack on our country?”
a. A search of his lawyer’s office by the FBI
b. A chemical weapons attack in Syria
c. China’s announcing tariffs on the imports of a list of products from the U.S.

4. Who won the Masters golf tournament?
a. Jordan Spieth
b. Rory McIlroy
c. Patrick Reed

5. Paul Ryan announced he will not run for re-election, bringing to nearly 30 the number of Republicans who have announced their retirements. How many seats must Democrats win to take over the House?
a. 15
b. 24
c. 31

6. Which of the following nations did not join the U.S. in taking military action against Syria?
a. The UK
b. France
c. Germany

7. The Atlantic Gulf Stream current, which carries warm water northward and cold water southward, is now at its weakest in how many years, research shows?
a. 100
b. 1600
c. 2500

8. Who pledged to help the U.S. State Department find “it’s swagger once again?”
a. Mike Pompeo
b. Nikki Haley
c. Lindsey Graham

9. The U.S. might rejoin which of the following trade agreements that it withdrew from in January 2017?
a. The Paris climate agreement
b. The North American Free Trade Agreement
c. The Trans-Pacific Partnership

10. Who wrote that Donald Trump is like a mafia boss and “untethered to the truth?”
a. Hillary Clinton
b. James Comey
c. Stormy Daniels

11. According to a new study, every glass of wine or pint of beer over the daily recommended limit will cut how much time from the expected lifespan of a 40-year-old?
a. 15 minutes
b. 30 minutes
c. 60 minutes

12. President Trump pardoned Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was convicted of felonies related to which act of his?
a. Leaking the identity of a CIA officer
b. Failing to pay federal income tax
c. Lying to Congress

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. c
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. c
7. b
8. a
9. c
10. b
11. b
12. a

1. At least how many Palestinians were killed as of Friday during protests along the fence that separates Israel from Gaza?
a. 10
b. 27
c. 35

2. Which team won the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball championship on a shot with 0.1 seconds left in the game?
a. Notre Dame
b. Mississippi State
c. South Carolina

3. A space station belonging to which nation fell to Earth?
a. Russia
b. China
c. India

4. Mark Zuckerberg said the spread of hate speech via Facebook in which country was “a real issue?”
a. The United States
b. Myanmar
c. Germany

5. What distinguishes the star that scientists have dubbed Icaraus?
a. It is smaller than the Sun
b. It is the oldest star ever seen
c. It’s the most distant individual star ever seen that’s not a supernova

6. Steven Bochco, the writer and producer who died last week, is known for creating which of the following TV shows:
a. Hill Street Blues
b. ER
c. The Wire

7. Who is Alex van der Zwaan and why was he sentenced to 30 days in jail?
a. A London-based lawyer who represented Paul Manafort and Rick Gates that admitted lying to the FBI
b. A Dutch soccer star who admitted to falsifying tax returns
c. A Russian businessman who lives in London and who admitted lying to Britsh authorities investigating the posioning in the UK of a former Russian double agent

8. Facebook said it may have improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica the data of a total of how many people
a. 27 million
b. 37 million
c. 87 million

9. Of 160 “active shooter” instances in the U.S. between 2000 and 20013, what percentage were perpetrated by a female shooter?
a. 3.8%
b. 6%
c. 9.1%

10. Of the following countries, which is not currently home to a former president has been charged with corruption?
a. Brazil
b. South Africa
c. South Korea
d. Kenya

11. Which of the following goods is not on the list of 128 U.S. products on which China said it will impose tariffs?
a. Wide-body aircraft
b. Strawberries
c. Ginseng
d. Stainless steel pipes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. b
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. c
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. a
10. d
11. a

1. About how many people are estimated to have attended the March For Our Lives in Washington?

a. 450,000
b. 600,000
c. 800,000

2. What caused snow across mountains in Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Romania to turn orange?

a. Dust from a solar storm that drifted through the atmosphere
b. Dust from pollution caused by manufacturing in China
c. Dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara

3. What flight was the CEO of Qantas Airways referring to when he called it “a game changer?”

a. A flight from Perth to London
b. A flight from Sydney to London
c. A flight from Perth to Doha

4. Why did Jewish groups in Britain protest outside Parliament?

a. To object to a decision by the government to sell weapons to the Israeli military
b. To object to what they say is a failure by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to tackle anti-Semitism within the party’s ranks
c. To object to the Labour Party’s alleged criticism of Israel

5. Louis Vuitton named Virgil Abloh as the company’s next artistic director of men’s wear. Which of the following is Abloh best known for?

a. Luxury goods
b. Women’s wear
c. Street wear

6. What foreign leader was aboard an armored train that pulled into Beijing on Monday?

a. Kim Jong Un
b. Moon-Jae
c. Narendra Modi

7. The announcement by the Commerce Department that the U.S. census would reinstate a question about what provoked a backlash?

a. Race
b. Citizenship
c. Sexual orientation

8. A cyberattack hobbled which U.S. city?

a. Chicago
b. Austin
c. Atlanta

9. Why did protestors temporarily take over Sacramento’s city hall on Tuesday?

a. To protest the death of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was fatally shot by two Sacramento police officers
b. To protest problems that the city has found in drinking water supplied to some communities
c. To protest what they charge is a failure of the city to use minority-owned firms in construction projects

10. Donald Trump nominated Ronny Jackson to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. What is Jackson’s current job?

a. Director of the National Security Council
b. Assistant secretary of Veterans Affairs
c. Trump’s doctor

11. Which of the following toys are a haven for bacteria, according to a study published Tuesday?

a. Rubber ducks
b. PlayStation VR
c. Lego

12. The oldest documented human footprints in North America where found where?

a. Cuatrocientas, Mexico
b. Calvert Island, British Columbia
c. Helena, Montana

13. Which technology company did Donald Trump attack via Twitter?

a. Facebook
b. Google
c. Amazon

14. Which country held a presidential election that opposition and human rights groups largely labeled a facade?

a. Spain
b. Egypt
c. Peru

15. Who took to Twitter to publish a spoof of an animated series about the Marvel superhero Deadpool that he was working on when the FX network cancelled it?

a. Donald Glover
b. Jay-Z
c. Ta-Neshi Coates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. b
5. c
6. a
7. b
8. c
9. a
10. c
11. a
12. b
13. c
14. b
15. a

1. What action did Russia take in response to British allegations over the poisoning of a former spy?

a. Ordered the closure of the U.K. embassy
b. Charged the U.K. with a breach of international law
c. Expelled 23 British diplomats

2. Sunday’s election victory by Vladimir Putin marks how many terms for Russia’s president?

a. Three
b. Four
c. Five

3. What is the name of the carbon fiber and titanium safety device installed on the cockpits of cars that compete in Formula One?

a. Side
b. Halo
c. Aeroscreen

4. Police in France questioned former President Nicolas Sarkozy over allegations that he receives millions of euros in election funding from which government?

a. The regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi
b. The Chinese government
c. The Russian government

5. Why did Karen McDougal sue the National Enquirer?

a. To recover for an defamatory article about an affair that she allegedly had with Donald Trump
b. To declare as void a contract that prevents her from speaking about an alleged affair with Donald Trump a decade ago
c. For failure to uphold its promise to allow her to be a contributor in return for her agreeing to remain silent about an alleged affair with Donald Trump

6. Where will the ashes of Stephen Hawking be interred?

a. In St. Paul’s Cathedral
b. In outer space
c. In Westminster Abbey

7. What did Israel confirm for the first time this week?

a. That it bombed a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007
b. That it carried out a cyberattack in 2010 that delayed Iran’s ability to develop a nuclear reactor
c. That it recently destroyed Iranian missiles held at a base in Syria

8. Larry Kwong died on Thursday. What milestone did he achieve?

a. He was the National Basketball Association’s first player of Asian descent
b. He was the National Hockey League’s first player of Asian descent
c. He was Major League Baseball’s first player of Asian descent

9. What “incredibly sad news” did the CEO of Uber tweet about?

a. An Uber vehicle in autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian
b. An investigation found that female workers at Uber endured a pattern of sexual harassment and discrimination
c. An Uber driver was among the people killed in a series of bombings across Austin

10. Who said: “I know that there was a lot of pressure to speak sooner, but my assessment was that it was more important that what we said was fully accurate.”

a. Christopher Wylie
b. Mark Zuckerberg
c. Sheryl Sandberg

10. Which actress from “Sex and the City” will challenge Andrew Cuomo of New York for the Democratic nomination for governor?

a. Sarah Jessica Parker
b. Cynthia Nixon
c. Kristin Davis
d. Kim Cattrall

11. Why did retailer Best Buy say it would no longer sell phones from Huawei?

a. Because of U.S. Government concerns that Chinese electronics could be used for spying or cyberattacks
b. Because Huawei could not certify that it’s batteries satisfy U.S. safety standards
c. To protest a decision by the Chinese government to block Best Buy from online sales in that country

12. Who will replace HR McMaster as Donald Trump’s national security adviser?

a. John Dowd
b. John Kelly
c. John Bolton

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1.c
2. b
3. b
4. a
5. b
6. c
7. a
8. b
9. a
10. b
11. a
12. c

1. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front party in France, announced that the party now has a new name that officials hope will broaden its appeal. What is the new name of the party?

a. Union Nationale
b. Rassemblement National
c. Front Nationale

2. This designer, who dressed the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, died at the age of 91.

a. Cristobal Balenciaga
b. Hubert de Givenchy
c. Riccardo Tisci

3. Why did the Metropolitan Opera in New York fire James Levine, its conductor?

a. An investigation found that he had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct
b. As part of a move to reverse a falloff in attendance
c. To make way for a successor after four decades with Levine at the helm

4. President Trump blocked the purchase of which U.S.-based maker of semiconductors, citing national security concerns?

a. Broadcom
b. Intel
c. Qualcomm

5. Who did President Trump name to head of the Central Intelligence Agency?

a. Mike Pompeo
b. Gina Haspel
c. David Shulkin

6. Stephen Hawking will be remembered for which one or more of the following?

a. The properties of black holes
b. The nature of gravity
c. Advocacy for space exploration

7. What prompted United Airlines to apologize?

a. A dog died on a flight during which it was stored in a passenger’s overhead compartment
b. The airline cancelled flights in and out of Boston ahead of a storm that failed to materialize
c. A computer glitch led the airline to overbook passengers

8. Which of the following  did Prime Minister Theresa May announce in return for Russian allegedly poisoning a former Russian spy who lives in Britain?

a. That the U.K. would withdraw from the soccer World Cup in Russia
b. That no members of the royal family would attend the World Cup
c. That the U.K. would lobby the United Nations to adopt economic sanctions against Russia

9. Why did thousands of students walk out of their schools on Wednesday?

a. To protest gun violence
b. To advocate for action to halt climate change
c. To affirm their support for the #metoo movement

10. What is the happiest country in the world, according to a United Nations report?

a. Norway
b. Canada
c. Finland

11. Angela Merkel began her latest term as German chancellor. How many terms does this make?

a. Four
b. Three
c. Two

12. Rihanna denounced an ad from which social network that joked about domestic violence between the singer and her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown.

a. Twitter
b. Snapchat
c. Instagram

13. The founder of which once high-flying startup was charged by U.S. authorities with massive securities fraud?

a. Uber
b. Theranos
c. Jawbone

14. Google announced it would ban advertisements for which products?

a. Cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings
b. Automobile safety restraints
c. Drones

15. This week marked 10 years since the collapse of which Wall Street financial firm?

a. Washington Mutual
b. Lehman Brothers
c. Bear Stearns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. b
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. a, b and c
7. a
8. b
9. a
10. c
11. a
12. b
13. b
14. a
15. c

1. Russia denied involvement in the attempted murder of a double agent and his daughter in which country?

2. Sir Roger Bannister died on Sunday. What milestone did he achieve?

3. Italy held an election to choose members of its two houses of parliament. Which of the following statements about the outcome is true?

– The voting produced a surge of support for populist and far-right parties.
– Italians voted largely for parties that are skeptical of Italy’s membership in the European Union.
– No single party won a majority.

4. The U.S. is likely to overtake which nation to become the world’s largest producer of oil by 2023, according to the International Energy Agency?

5. The Trump administration on Tuesday sued the state of California, alleging which of the following:

– That California’s laws governing vehicle emissions contravene federal law
– That California’s sanctuary laws violate the Constitution
– That California’s laws implementing Medicaid violate federal law

6. What did the adult film actress Stormy Daniels ask a Los Angeles judge to do in a lawsuit against President Trump that she filed on Tuesday?

– Declare that an agreement that obligated her to remain silent about a sexual relationship with Trump is void
– Stop the president’s lawyers from contending that her alleged decade-old affair with Trump did not happen
– Order Trump to  pay Daniels $130,000 that he allegedly promise to pay her

7. Who led the team of researchers that found the wreckage of the USS Lexington, which sank in 1942 after being attacked by the Japanese navy off the coast of Australia?

– Sir Richard Branson
– Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
– Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos

8. Florida’s legislature passed a gun control bill. Which of the following provisions does the bill not contain:

– Raise the minimum age for gun purchases to 21 from 18
– Allow superintendents to arm counselors, coaches and librarians
– Ban assault weapons
– Allow police to temporarily confiscate guns from anyone subject to involuntary psychiatric evaluation
– Ban bump stocks

9. Senior officials from which nation announced the news that President Trump has agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un?

– South Korea
– Japan
– China
– Australia

10. President Trump said tariffs on steel and aluminum may not apply to which two nations?

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

1. England

2. He was the first athlete to break the four-minute mile.

3. All are true.

4. Russia

5. That California’s sanctuary laws violate the Constitution

6. That an agreement that obligated her to remain silent about a sexual relationship with Trump is void

7. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen

8. Ban assault weapons

9. South Korea

10. Canada and Mexico

1. Why did President Xi of China make headlines on Sunday?

2. The United Nations Secretary General demanded on Monday that a cease-fire resolution adopted for which country take effect immediately?

3. Under a proposal by the European Union, how long will social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook have to remove posts and videos that have been flagged as “terrorist” by police or law enforcement?

4. Republican lawmakers in Georgia approved a bill that would repeal a tax break that benefits which airline, in retaliation for the airline’s announcing it would eliminate discounts for members of the National Rifle Association?

5. The U.S. cable giant Comcast is considering an offer of $22 billion to buy which UK-based broadcaster?

6. Which of the following measures did Dick’s, the largest U.S. retailer of sporting goods, announce on Wednesday?
– That it was ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores
– That it will no longer sell firearms to anyone under 21 years of age
– That it will no longer sell high-capacity magazines
– That it never has nor ever will sell bump stocks that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly

7. President Trump said Thursday said he would impose tariffs on imports of what metals?

8. What was the “Beast of the East”?

9. Which leader said on Thursday that his nation has developed nuclear weapons that could overcome any U.S. missile defenses?

10. Which of the following movies is not nominated for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards?
– Lady Bird
– Darkest Hour
– The Post
– Mudbound
– The Shape of Water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

1. The Communist Party that he heads announced that its central committee had recommended repealing a limit of two terms for the president and vice-president.

2. Syria

3. One hour

4. Delta

5. Sky

6. All of them

7. Steel and aluminum

8. A storm that brought as much as 20 inches of snow and bitter cold to the United Kingdom

9. Russian President Vladimir Putin

10. Mudbound