In The News Week Ending May 30
- 1.First lady Michelle Obama protested a Congressional bill that would weaken rules governing what?
- A.
School lunch
- B.
Health care
- C.
Gun control
- D.
National parks
- 2.Federally funded winged drones will soon be used within the U.S. to do what?
- A.
Locate flood victims.
- B.
Provide rural mail delivery.
- C.
Monitor hurricanes.
- D.
Patrol government buildings.
- 3.Research Triangle Park is one of seven winners in the national US2020 competition, which focuses on what?
- A.
Mentoring students.
- B.
Preserving genealogical records.
- C.
Integrating green design into industrial spaces.
- D.
Automating census data collection.
- 4.North Carolina was once a national leader in producing and racing thoroughbred horses. What factor reduced the state’s prominence in this field?
- A.
The Internet.
- B.
An outbreak of equine encephalitis.
- C.
Zoning regulations.
- D.
The Civil War.
- 5.What happened at the National Spelling Bee for the first time since 1962?
- A.
It ended in a tie.
- B.
It was held outside Washington D.C.
- C.
The competition was suspended during an electrical storm.
- D.
The winner was from North Carolina.
- 6.What university has displaced Harvard as America’s “it” school?
- A.
Cornell
- B.
Duke
- C.
Stanford
- D.
MIT
- 7.What are some N.C. families doing to express their concern over what they consider excessive testing in their schools?
- A.
Moving out of state.
- B.
Protesting at school board meetings.
- C.
Appearing in a Morgan Spurlock documentary about standardized testing.
- D.
Refusing to take the test.
- 8.Wake Tech is the first community college in the state to do what, following a trend started by some of the country’s more elite universities?
- A.
Open an exclusively digital library.
- B.
Replace SAT scores with ACT subject scores for admission.
- C.
Offer a MOOC.
- D.
Automatically enroll students in its alumni association.
- 9.Writer Maya Angelou died last week. What was her connection to North Carolina?
- A.
She lived here.
- B.
She was Duke Law School’s first female graduate.
- C.
Her first novel was set on the North Carolina coast.
- D.
Nothing.
- 10.Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are studying gerontogens, which are thought to cause what?
- A.
Aging.
- B.
Global warming.
- C.
Dementia.
- D.
Obesity.
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