CNN 10 - 2/3/22

CNN 10 - Geopolitics

100

How many troops is the US sending to Eastern Europe?

3,000 troops

200

The US is going to send troops to what countries?

Germany, Poland and Romania

300

This organization was formed in 1949 as a guard against the Soviet Union.

NATO

400

What country has more than 100,000 troops near its western border with Ukraine?

Russia

CNN 10 - Economics

100

According to new data from the U.S. Labor Department, ________ people left their jobs voluntarily.

47.4 million

200

Many had trouble finding ______ and quit to be with _____.

childcare...their kids.

300

More Americans quit their jobs in _____ than in any other year ever recorded.

a) 2020

b) 2021

c) 2019

b) 2021

400

As a result of lack of employees, employers were pushed to offer more attractive benefits, vacation days, and __________

Higher wages

CNN 10 - Science

100

What is the most expensive object ever built costing over $100 billion?

The International Space Station

200

The first piece of the ISS was sent up in 1998 but it wasn`t deemed complete until when?

2011

300

What is the goal of NASA?

Their goal right now at NASA is to put boots on Mars.

400

Crew members on the ISS spend about 35 hours per week doing what?

Research for understanding of how the human body reacts to a microgravity environment, and has also helped in the development of vaccines against pathogens like salmonella and developing drugs to combat osteoporosis.