News Quiz 1
The government of which country resigned on Monday?(This country struggles with a crippling economic crisis and reels from an enormous explosion last week)
Lebanon
Who was named the world's highest-paid male actor?
Dwayne Johnson
Forbes's list of the highest-paid actors having made an estimated $87.5m in the fiscal year ending June 2020.
Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of ...., said Americans must adopt public health protocols or risk the “worst fall” for health in U.S. history.
the CDC
Name three countries that start with “R”.
Russia, Romania, ______.
Rwanda
WWII last for how many years?
6 years and 1 day
Which country became the first in the world to approve a possible vaccine for the coronavirus?
Russia
One week after resuming in-person classes, a school district in which state ordered over a thousand people to quarantine?
Georgia
.... became the third Arab country to make a formal peace deal with Israel.
The United Arab Emirates
Which two countries share the longest border in the world?
The longest border is between the United States of America and Canada. It is over 8893 km/ 5525 miles long.
Five vital organs of the human body are what?
Brain, Heart, Kidney, Liver, and Lungs
Which U.S. government agency announced a substantial reorganization?
Postal Service
Joe Biden selected Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate. Her father is from Jamaica, and her mother immigrated from which country?
India
The Democratic National Convention will take place virtually this week in the city of .....
Milwaukee
Which is the longest continental mountain range in the world?
The Andes in South America are the longest mountain range stretching over 7600 km/ 4700 miles from north to south.
North Africa covers mostly which desert?
The Sahara Desert
Afghanistan said it will release 400 “hard-core” detainees from the militant group called ..?.., ahead of peace talks.
the Taliban
Which annual event went on as planned, recently drawing about 250,000 people to a town that has fewer than 7,000 residents?
Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
Tens of thousands of motorcyclists roared into Sturgis, S.D., last Friday for an annual rally that kicked off despite the coronavirus pandemic and objections from residents. The 10-day affair was expected to attract 250,000 enthusiasts this year — about half the number who attended last year but a figure that puts it on track to be among the country’s largest public gatherings since the first coronavirus cases emerged in the spring.
The .... and Pac 12 conferences announced the cancellation of their college football seasons due to coronavirus concerns.
Big Ten
Which continent is the most populous?
60% of the world's population live on the Asian continent. More than 4.4 billion people live in Asia.
“Windy City” used for which city?
Chicago
Protests broke out in ..?.., the capital of Belarus, after the government announced that Alexander Lukashenko had been re-elected president. Lukashenko, who has been called “Europe’s last dictator,” claimed to have received 80 percent of the votes in this election.
Minsk
Who won the 102nd P.G.A. Championship?
A 23-year-old native Californian, Collin Morikawa finished 13-under-par in only his second appearance at a major championship. He became the third-youngest winner of the P.G.A. Championship since it became a stroke-play event in 1958. Only Jack Nicklaus in 1963 and Rory McIlroy in 2012 were younger.
After the right-wing interim government of ..... delayed presidential elections for the second time, supporters of former president Evo Morales called for a general strike and for elections to be held in September.
Bolivia
Which is the largest volcano in the world?
Mouna Loa on Hawaii is the largest active volcano. It last erupted in 1984 and the flanks of the volcano trembled with earthquakes for more than three years.
Earth atmosphere mostly contains which gas?
Nitrogen