Here are eight questions that test how closely you’ve followed the news during the past week. My love for such quizzes was rekindled a few years ago by the Financial Times, which publishes a quiz at the end of each year. This week I decided to compile a quiz of my own.
1. In his address to the nation on Thursday about immigration, which former president did President Obama quote?
2. This surgeon died from Ebola on Monday at Nebraska Medical Center.
3. On Tuesday, four people were killed in an attack on a synagogue in what city?
4. The editors of the Oxford Dictionary selected this word as the word of the year.
5. An executive with this startup publicly suggested investigating the private lives of journalists who criticize the company?
6. Yahoo and Firefox agreed this week to do what?
7. China inked its largest-ever foreign investment pact. What is it?
8. Mike Nichols, who died this week at age 83, won the Academy Award for Best Director of this 1968 film.
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Answers
1. George W. Bush
2. Dr. Martin Salia
3. Jerusalem
4. Vape
5. Uber
6. Starting in December, the Firefox browser will use Yahoo as its default search engine, replacing Google.
7. A $12 billion contract to build roughly 870 miles of railway along the coast of Nigeria
8. The Graduate