What A Week: May 13-19
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.As of Thursday, who is serving as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund?
- A.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
- B.
John Lipsky
- C.
Christine Lagarde
- D.
Timothy Geithner
- 2.Who won this year’s Man Booker International Prize?
- A.
Philip Roth
- B.
Tony Kushner
- C.
Jennifer Egan
- D.
Will Ferrell
- 3.Which of the following Senators is no longer part of the so-called Gang of Six?
- A.
Saxby Chambliss
- B.
Tom Coburn
- C.
Kent Conrad
- D.
Mike Crapo
- E.
Dick Durbin
- F.
Mark Warner
- 4.Who had to apologize after posting the following on Twitter this week? "Had to monitor Fox for a story. Can't. Deal. With. The. Blathering."
- A.
Anderson Cooper
- B.
Rachel Maddow
- C.
Bill Keller
- D.
The Secret Service
- 5.Who said the following, about what: “I, I think that, I think, I think that that is too big a jump.”
- A.
Barack Obama; free elections in Libya
- B.
Newt Gingrich; Paul Ryan’s health-care proposal
- C.
Mark Zuckerberg; LinkedIn shares on Thursday
- D.
Arnold Schwarzenegger; claims that his acting career is over
- 6.What is the name of Jane Pratt’s new Web site, which she launched this week?
- A.
Jane2.0
- B.
Jane3.0
- C.
XoJane
- D.
WwwJane
- 7.The U.S. Marshals Service auctioned items this week, including bottles of wine and a hooded sweatshirt, belonging to whom?
- A.
Woody Allen and Spike Lee
- B.
Bernie Madoff and Ted Kaczynski
- C.
Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton
- D.
Chris Brown and Lindsay Lohan
- 8.The Queen of England’s visit to Ireland this week marked the first visit of a British monarch since when?
- A.
Ireland’s independence
- B.
The Irish Civil War
- C.
The Second World War
- D.
Ever
- 9.Who announced this week that he or she would not run for President, explaining it as “a very personal, a very intimate, and ... a spiritual decision”?
- A.
Donald Trump
- B.
Mike Huckabee
- C.
Mitt Romney
- D.
Sarah Palin
- 10.What is notable about the photos in More magazine of Patti Davis, Ronald Reagan’s daughter?
- A.
She’s at a pro-choice rally
- B.
She’s kissing another woman
- C.
She’s smoking a joint
- D.
She’s naked
- 11.Who was banned from the Cannes Film Festival for saying “I am a Nazi,” and “What can I say? I understand Hitler”?
- A.
Lars von Trier
- B.
Werner Herzog
- C.
Heidi Klum
- D.
Steven Spielberg
- 12.Know your New Yorker: This week’s cover celebrates the hundredth birthday or who or what?
- A.
The New York Public Library
- B.
The Bronx Zoo
- C.
Eustace Tilley
- D.
Hugh Hefner
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