In The News Week Ending July 4
- 1.Friends Feeding Friends and A Second Helping are two food donation programs that use what as a source for stocking local food pantries during the summer?
- A.
Food prepared by students in the local community college culinary classes.
- B.
Food collected from visitors to the USS North Carolina Battleship.
- C.
Food left behind by beach vacationers.
- D.
Food donated by local produce stands.
- 2.In an effort to reduce litter and landfill waste, Raleigh city leaders are considering what action?
- A.
Converting to mandatory electronic billing.
- B.
Building drive-thru recycling centers.
- C.
Charging shoppers for using plastic bags.
- D.
Establishing an “adopt a block” program.
- 3.Some major league baseball players are deciding to quit what, even though it is permitted by their collective bargaining agreement?
- A.
Getting married.
- B.
Accepting complimentary first-class airline seats.
- C.
Appearing in ads for alcoholic beverages.
- D.
Spitting tobacco.
- 4.In a statement from acting CEO John Mulligan, Target shoppers have been urged to leave their what at home?
- A.
Checkbooks
- B.
Guns
- C.
Pets
- D.
Germs
- 5.A new study shows that people would rather receive an electric shock than what?
- A.
Be alone with their thoughts.
- B.
Spend Thanksgiving with their in-laws.
- C.
Sit in rush-hour traffic.
- D.
Go to the dentist.
- 6.Researchers have found that nearly all mammals take the same amount of time (around 21 seconds) to do what?
- A.
Feel pain.
- B.
Adjust to bright light.
- C.
Urinate.
- D.
Fall asleep.
- 7.Some small business owners are concerned about efforts to ban what type of advertising?
- A.
Vehicle signs.
- B.
Sponsorship of little league teams.
- C.
Sign spinners.
- D.
Craigslist.
- 8.Robert A. McDonald, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Veterans Affairs, formerly held what job?
- A.
CEO of Procter & Gamble.
- B.
Lead counsel for General Motors.
- C.
President of Pepperdine University.
- D.
Interim U.S. Secretary of Education.
- 9.Louis Zamperini, a World War II veteran to survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific and two years in Japanese prison camps, died at age 97. What did he do before the war?
- A.
He was a movie director.
- B.
He was a poet.
- C.
He was an orphan.
- D.
He was an Olympic athlete.
- 10.The National Institutes of Health has picked Duke University and five other medical and research institutions to study what?
- A.
Medical mysteries.
- B.
Paranormal activity.
- C.
Effects of cellphone radiation.
- D.
Tick-borne diseases.
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