Current Events & Vocab
Vocabulary
Math and History
Current Events
Current Events
100
Soccer star David Beckham, who plays for ..?.., tore his Achilles tendon and is doubtful to play in the World Cup.
Milan
100
someone who tries to embarrass you with gibes and questions and objections
heckler •\ˈhe-kəlr\• noun
100
At the height of the BP oil disaster, up to 60,000 barrels of oil were estimated to be spilling into the Gulf of Mexico every day. One barrel of oil is 42 gallons. An Olympic-size swimming pool has a volume of about 660,000 gallons. At the height of the leak, how many Olympic-size swimming pools would have been needed to contain the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico each day?
four
100
______, the maker of Botox, agreed on Wednesday to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold the drug through 2005 for unapproved uses like treating headaches.
Allergan
100
President Obama declared an end on Tuesday to the _________ American combat mission in Iraq, saying that the United States has met its responsibility to that country and that it is now time to turn to pressing problems at home.
Seven year
200
Kansas, Kentucky, Syracuse, and ..?… were given No. 1 seeds in the NCAA basketball tournament.
Duke
200
1. draw a line around 2. restrict or confine
circumscribe •\ˈsər-kəm-ˌskrīb\• verb
200
Today movies are generally filmed in a video format called 24p, which means that there are 24 still frames per second. The movie "Despicable Me" is 95 minutes long. If the movie is in 24p format, approximately how many frames are in the movie?
150,000
200
Police officers shot and killed a gunman with a history of protesting against ______, ending a nearly four-hour ordeal on Wednesday at the company’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. The gunman, apparently wearing explosives, had taken two employees and a security guard hostage, authorities said.
the Discovery Channel
200
A ______ drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis. The company’s experimental anticoagulant drug apixaban worked better than aspirin in preventing stroke and systemic blood clots for patients who have an irregular heart rhythm disorder called atrial fibrillation, according to new study data presented on Tuesday at a cardiology conference in Stockholm.
Bristol-Myers Squibb
300
"Several countries have been testing teaching machines in classrooms. ... Already, these advances have stirred dystopian visions, along with the sort of ethical debate usually confined to science fiction." Which of the following literary works often taught in high schools would best be described as "dystopian"?
"Brave New World"
300
1: presenting a summary or general view of a whole 2: presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament
synoptic •\sĭ-nŏpˈtĭk\• adjective
300
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; the dispute led to _________.
World War I
300
______ began his foray into Middle East peace-making on Wednesday, orchestrating a gathering of leaders that included the heads of Israel and Palestine. The group is committed to working on a comprehensive Middle East peace treaty intended to end a conflict that has endured for six decades.
President Obama
300
Hurricane ______ tore through the northern Caribbean on Monday, escalating to Category Four status with winds up to 135 miles an hour that downed power lines, damaged homes and sent hundreds of people fleeing to emergency shelters.
Earl
400
the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
transgression •\tranz-ˈgre-shən\• noun
400
verb: have an element suggestive (of something) verb: smell badly and offensively verb: give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc.
reek •\ˈrēk\• verb
400
On July 22, 1934, a man identified as bank robber _________, then America's "Public Enemy Number 1," was shot to death by federal agents in Chicago.
John Dillinger
400
Apple jumped into the social networking business on Wednesday, introducing ______, a service built into iTunes that is intended to help users discover new music and, presumably, buy more songs from Apple.
Ping
400
______ arrived in Baghdad this week to commemorate the official end of the United States combat mission and to meet with Iraqi political leaders, who have yet to form a government more than five months after elections.
Vice President Biden
500
an immeasurably long period of time
eon •\ˈē-ən, ˈē-ˌän\• noun
500
injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
maim •\ˈmām\• verb
500
On July 21, 1925, the ''monkey trial'' ended in Dayton, Tenn., with _________ convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. (The conviction was later overturned.)
John T. Scopes
500
The number of illegal immigrants in the United States, after peaking at 12 million in 2007, fell to about ______ in 2009, the first clear decline in two decades, according to a report published Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.
11.1
500
New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera's career post-season earned run average is 0.74 in 133 innings pitched. How many earned runs has he allowed in the post-season?
11
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