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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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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

143,280,496,726

$3.15

Who won the Kentucky Derby?

Who is Khalid al-Falih?

Who reportedly said he won’t use nuclear weapons unless his country’s sovereignty is threatened?

Why did the U.S. Department of Justice and North Carolina sue each other?

The Philippines have their own Trump. Who is he?

A redesign of what social network for sharing images sparked a split of opinion among users?

What is the charge against Brazil’s president that led to a vote by senators to impeach her?

Two pieces of debris discovered in South Africa and the Mauritian island of Rodrigues are almost certainly from what aircraft, according to authorities in Malaysia?

Which social network responded to charges that it downplays news about conservatives?

Which U.S. senator tweeted at Donald Trump, “Your policies are dangerous. Your words are reckless. Your record is embarrassing. And your free ride is over.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The chairman of state oil company Saudi Arabian Oil Co. who was appointed Saudi Arabia’s oil minister.

North Korean leader Kim Jung Un

The government charges that a North Carolina law that requires people who use bathrooms and locker rooms in state and local facilities use the facilities that correspond to the sex listed on their birth certificates discriminates against transgender people. The state’s governor charges the Justice Department with misinterpreting federal civil rights laws.

Rodrigo Duterte, the incoming president, who has an unrestrained style that some have likened to Donald Trump.

Instagram

She is charged with using state-run banks and funds to conceal a deficit by paying, in advance of an election in 2014, benefits payments and other government expenses.

Malaysia Airlines MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board

Facebook

Elizabeth Warren, a first-term Democratic senator from Massachusetts

Who is Craig Wright and what did he claim to have done?

What is the significance in U.S. politics of the numbers 1,237 and 2,383?

What soccer club won the English Premier League?

What country put its wild animals up for sale, saying it needed buyers to step in to save the beasts from a devastating drought?

Which six countries are the most popular tax havens, according to the United Nations?

What bank note is the European Union abandoning?

Who told investors not to worry, “My desk is at the end of the production line.”

Who is Ahmet Davutoglu and what did he announce?

Sadiq Khan won the mayoral election in London. What “first” does Khan’s victory represent?

Who posted a photo of himself eating a taco bowl for Cinco de Mayo with the message: “I love Hispanics!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A tech entrepreneur from Australia who claimed to have invented the virtual currency known as bitcoin

The number of delegates needed to clinch the U.S. Republican and Democratic presidential nominations, respectively

Leicester City, which overcame odds of 5,000-to-1 to win the title

Zimbabwe

Netherlands, the U.S., U.K., Luxembourg, Switzerland and Ireland

The 500 euro bill

Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, who announced plans to produce 500,000 cars over the next two years

The prime minister of Turkey, who said he would step down following a power struggle with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Khan will become the city’s first Muslim mayor

Donald Trump