What A Week: July 22-28
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.Who said the following to whom? “Get your ass in line.”
- A.
President Obama to John Boehner
- B.
John Boehner to House Republicans
- C.
President Obama to Harry Reid
- D.
Harry Reid to Senate Democrats
- 2.As of Thursday afternoon, which of the following had been resolved?
- A.
The N.F.L. lockout
- B.
The N.B.A. lockout
- C.
The debt-ceiling dispute
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 3.How many bombs went off in Oslo on Friday?
- A.
None
- B.
One
- C.
Two
- D.
Three
- 4.After the death of musician Amy Winehouse, the following musician said, “Amy Winehouse paved the way for me.”
- A.
Norah Jones
- B.
Beyoncé
- C.
Erykah Badu
- D.
Adele
- 5.With David Wu’s resignation, following allegations that he had unwanted sexual relations with the teen-age daughter of a friend and donor, which place is down a what?
- A.
San Francisco; city councilman
- B.
Oregon; congressman
- C.
Washington; senator
- D.
Portland; mayor
- 6.Who reportedly said the following, about what? “I’m not going to take money from old people and screw students.”
- A.
Mark Zuckerberg; why he rejected News Corp.’s 2006 buyout offer
- B.
President Obama; spending and tax proposals
- C.
Arne Duncan; why went into education
- D.
Brett Favre; why he left football
- 7.Which country launched a new currency this week?
- A.
Greece
- B.
Sudan
- C.
South Sudan
- D.
Libya
- 8.Jiang Limo, who has commented on the inquiry of James and Rupert Murdoch, instructed Wendi, Rupert's wife, in which sport in middle school?
- A.
Fencing
- B.
Volleyball
- C.
Boxing
- D.
Ping-pong
- 9.In his first Comic-Con appearance, Steven Spielberg confirmed that there will be another film coming in which franchise?
- A.
Jurassic Park
- B.
Men in Black
- C.
Transformers
- D.
Jaws
- 10.Robert C. W. Ettinger died this week. Where is his body now?
- A.
Buried at Arlington Cemetery
- B.
Scattered on Mt. Everest
- C.
In storage at the Cryonics Institute
- D.
Orbiting the Earth
- 11.Anders Behring Breivik, who initiated two fatal attacks in Norway on Friday, has a manifesto entitled “2083.” To what does that number refer?
- A.
The year “the world reverts to the blackness from whence it came.”
- B.
The year “Europe will once again be governed by patriots.”
- C.
The number of “righteous souls left in Europe.”
- D.
The number of pages in the manifesto
- 12.Know your New Yorker: In this week’s Talk of the Town, Oliver Sacks writes about rushing to the High Line to catch a glimpse of what?
- A.
Roses
- B.
Horsetails
- C.
A swarm of bees
- D.
Jennifer Aniston
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