What A Week: March 25-31
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.About what did Eric Cantor, the majority House leader, say this week that “time is up”?
- A.
American intervention in Libya
- B.
Federal budget negotiations
- C.
Wisconsin collective-bargaining negotiations
- D.
Japan’s attempt to control its leaking reactors
- 2.Which American celebrity has been called to testify in the trial against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi?
- A.
Matt Damon
- B.
George Clooney
- C.
Jack Nicholson
- D.
Al Pacino
- 3.Penguin announced this week that Mario Lavandeira would be writing a children’s book called “The Boy With Pink Hair.” By what name is Lavandeira more widely known?
- A.
Perez Hilton
- B.
Tommy Ramone
- C.
Dennis Rodman
- D.
The Situation
- 4.What animal that escaped from the Bronx Zoo has gained a large Twitter following this week?
- A.
A black-footed ferret
- B.
A naked mole-rat
- C.
An Egyptian cobra
- D.
A poison frog
- 5.The Supreme Court heard arguments this week concerning whether to grant class-action status to a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs are charging Wal-Mart with discrimination based on what?
- A.
Gender
- B.
Race
- C.
Appearance
- D.
Strength
- 6.Who is William Cronon?
- A.
The American Ambassador to Libya
- B.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin
- C.
A pitcher for the Washington Nationals
- D.
A guard for the Butler Bulldogs
- 7.Of whom did Rolling Stone release photographs this week?
- A.
Gabrielle Giffords
- B.
Afghanis killed by American soldiers
- C.
Libyans killed by Qaddafi supporters
- D.
John Lennon
- 8.Who is enforcing the no-fly zone in Libya?
- A.
France
- B.
Britain
- C.
The U.N.
- D.
NATO
- 9.What did Alain Robert do this week?
- A.
Scored the winning shot in the Kentucky-Ohio State game
- B.
Climbed the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world
- C.
Crashed his jet into Libya’s central military command compound in Tripoli
- D.
Won “Top Chef”
- 10.What is the Facebook equivalent of Google’s new +1 button?
- A.
Friending
- B.
Poking
- C.
Tagging
- D.
Liking
- 11.Where is the NASA spacecraft Messenger?
- A.
Orbiting Mars
- B.
Orbiting Mercury
- C.
Docking at the International Space Station
- D.
Being disassembled and cleaned before it is displayed at the Smithsonian
- 12.Know Your New Yorker: What does this week’s Shouts & Murmurs piece explain?
- A.
Your taxes
- B.
Your health-care plan
- C.
Your Time Warner bill
- D.
Your mom
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