What A Week: May 6-12
How well do you know the news of the week?
- 1.What is happening in the early-morning sky this week?
- A.
Massive bee migration could disrupt visibility
- B.
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars are all visible and roughly aligned
- C.
High pollen count will produce an orangey glow
- D.
The North Star will actually be in the southern sky
- 2.Who said the following about what? “Maybe they’ll need a moat. Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat.”
- A.
Nicolas Sarkozy; the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- B.
Hillary Clinton; North and South Korea
- C.
President Obama; immigration policy
- D.
Governor Bobby Jindal; flooding in Louisiana
- 3.Which actor was reported this week to have passed on replacing Charlie Sheen on “Two and a Half Men”?
- A.
Emilio Estevez
- B.
Ashton Kutcher
- C.
John Malkovich
- D.
Hugh Grant
- 4.For what charge was John Demjanjuk convicted this week?
- A.
Accepting bribes in the form of a Ferrari and a $1.8 million yacht
- B.
Lying to cover up an affair with a political aide
- C.
Five counts of conspiracy and nine counts of securities fraud
- D.
28,060 counts of being an accessory to murder
- 5.What is the title of Levi Johnston’s forthcoming memoir?
- A.
“Deer in the Headlights”
- B.
“Fish out of Water”
- C.
“Dog in Heat”
- D.
“Man of the Hour”
- 6.Which slogan, also associated with Obama, is displayed prominently on Newt Gingrich’s campaign Web site?
- A.
“Yes we can.”
- B.
“Vote for change.”
- C.
“The audacity of hope.”
- D.
“Together we will win the future.”
- 7.Which Jonathan Swift title might Mitt Romney apply to his health-care plan, based on the speech he gave on Thursday?
- A.
“Common Sense”
- B.
“A Modest Proposal”
- C.
“The American Crisis”
- D.
“The Place of the Damn'd”
- 8.The hockey player Sean Avery made news this week for his support of what?
- A.
Universal healthcare
- B.
Same-sex marriage
- C.
Mandatory helmets
- D.
Beach volleyball
- 9.Who said the following about what? "If you got wet in 1973, you'll get wet this time. If you nearly got wet in 1973, you'll probably get wet this time."
- A.
Mayor A C Wharton; flooding in Memphis
- B.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu; flooding in New Orleans
- C.
Governor Bobby Jindal; flooding in Louisiana
- D.
Governor Andrew Cuomo; this year’s Belmont Stakes
- 10.Who is this year’s honoree for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor? (Last year’s was Tina Fey.)
- A.
Alec Baldwin
- B.
Will Ferrell
- C.
Andy Samberg
- D.
Chris Rock
- 11.Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin criticized Michelle Obama for inviting whom to a poetry event at the White House?
- A.
Tony Kushner
- B.
Salman Rushdie
- C.
Common
- D.
Nas
- 12.Know your New Yorker: In this week’s magazine, Nick Paumgarten writes about an algorithm for determining what?
- A.
The likelihood of a terrorist attack on an Amtrak train
- B.
The placement of names on the 9/11 memorial
- C.
The intensity of an earthquake
- D.
True love
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