What A Week: April 15-21
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.Wednesday was the one-year anniversary of what?
- A.
Haiti’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake
- B.
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
- C.
The Chilean miners getting trapped underground
- D.
Wikileaks's release of the "Collateral Murder" video
- 2.Who is Greg Mortenson?
- A.
The author of a best-selling memoir
- B.
The founder of the charity Pennies for Peace
- C.
The author of a book assigned as required reading for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan
- D.
All of the above
- 3.Which did Standard & Poor’s do this week?
- A.
Downgraded America’s credit rating from AAA to AA
- B.
Downgraded America’s credit rating from A to B
- C.
Downgraded its outlook on U.S. sovereign debt from “positive” to “stable”
- D.
Downgraded its outlook on U.S. sovereign debt from “stable” to “negative”
- 4.Which of the following soap operas has not been cancelled?
- A.
“All My Children”
- B.
“The Young and the Restless”
- C.
“One Life to Live”
- D.
“As the World Turns”
- 5.Who or what did Jesse Jackson, Jr., a Democratic congressman for Illinois, say “is now probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs”?
- A.
Alan Greenspan
- B.
Bernie Madoff
- C.
Wall Street
- D.
The iPad
- 6.Who is BP suing for more than eighty billion dollars?
- A.
Transocean
- B.
Halliburton
- C.
Transocean and Halliburton
- D.
Transocean, Halliburton, and the U.S. government
- 7.Who now controls the Dodgers?
- A.
Jamie McCourt
- B.
Frank McCourt
- C.
Major League Baseball
- D.
Doritos
- 8.According to the Wall Street Journal, what is complicating banks’ efforts to freeze the assets of Muammar Qaddafi and other sanctioned individuals from Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia?
- A.
Resistance to getting involved with political matters
- B.
Unwillingness to coöperate with rival banks
- C.
Multiple transliterations of Arabic names
- D.
Hackers
- 9.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ended the country’s state of emergency on Friday. How long had it been in effect?
- A.
Since 1963
- B.
Since 1978
- C.
Since 1991
- D.
Since November
- 10.Who threw the first pitch at the Phillies-Brewers game on Wednesday?
- A.
George W. Bush
- B.
Ed Rendell
- C.
Gwyneth Paltrow
- D.
A robot named Philliebot
- 11.A company called BrewDog has created Royal Virility Performance in honor of Prince William’s upcoming nuptials. What is it?
- A.
A new breed of cocker spaniel
- B.
A decorative codpiece
- C.
Beer laced with flecks of gold
- D.
Beer laced with Viagra
- 12.Where did most of the Obamas’s income for 2010 come from?
- A.
Book sales
- B.
Speaking engagements
- C.
Michelle’s salary
- D.
Tax refunds
- 13.Know Your New Yorker: What is the “3D Face toy funny souvenir” that Evan Osnos wrote about this week?
- A.
A bobblehead of Donald Trump
- B.
Stuffed dogs with the faces of Prince William and Kate Middleton
- C.
The favor given out at the first 3-D pornographic film, which opened in Hong Kong
- D.
One of the items recently banned by the T.S.A.
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