What A Week: July 8-14
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.Who or what did Hillary Clinton say has “lost legitimacy” and is “not indispensable”?
- A.
Muammar Qaddafi
- B.
Bashar Assad
- C.
News International
- D.
Bill Clinton
- 2.Sherwood Schwartz died this week, at the age of ninety-four. What did he create?
- A.
Velcro
- B.
The shuffle
- C.
“Gilligan’s Island”
- D.
All of the above
- 3.Who said the following about what? “When I saw that image, I said, ‘My God, it's a baseball.’ ”
- A.
Hugo Chavez, his tumor
- B.
Mark Kelly, the asteroid Vesta
- C.
Yukio Edano, the radio-controlled sphere gathering images from wrecked buildings
- D.
Derek Jeter, a baseball
- 4.The rating agency Moody’s lowered which country’s credit status to “junk” this week?
- A.
Italy
- B.
Greece
- C.
Ireland
- D.
The United States
- 5.Abby Wambach, a forward for the U.S. women’s soccer team, scored important goals in the World Cup games against France and Brazil. What did they have in common?
- A.
They were penalty kicks
- B.
They were headers
- C.
They tied the game
- D.
They won the game
- 6.News Corp. has abandoned its bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting. For now, then, it owns what per cent of the company?
- A.
Zero
- B.
Thirty-three
- C.
Thirty-nine
- D.
Forty-nine
- 7.How did the C.I.A. try to obtain D.N.A. samples from children in the Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden was captured, according to the Guardian?
- A.
A free pop-up barber shop
- B.
A free pop-up manicure shop
- C.
A fake vaccination drive
- D.
A fake test for strep throat
- 8.Which of the following TV shows did NOT receive an Emmy nomination for best drama?
- A.
“Friday Night Lights”
- B.
“Game of Thrones”
- C.
“Mad Men”
- D.
“House”
- 9.Which group of people did Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, compare to “barbarians” in a radio interview?
- A.
Arabs
- B.
Teen-agers
- C.
Homosexuals
- D.
Democrats
- 10.Which animal may be following in Paul the Octopus’s footsteps, having so far predicted the winner of every German match and the semifinal victors in the Women's World Cup?
- A.
Skippy the squirrel
- B.
Nelly the elephant
- C.
Teddy the toad
- D.
Paul the Octopus, Jr.
- 11.Which country became the hundred and ninety-third member of the United Nations on Thursday?
- A.
South Sudan
- B.
Kosovo
- C.
Taiwan
- D.
Vatican City
- 12.Know your New Yorker: In this week’s Talk of the Town, Ben McGrath writes about a funk concert at which the audience is made up of whom?
- A.
Senior citizens in Breezy Point
- B.
Inmates at Rikers Island
- C.
Ballerinas outside Lincoln Center
- D.
Fetuses in Park Slope
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