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News Quiz: Protests, Hong Kong, Primary Elections
Compiled byCHRIS STANFORD,WILL DUDDINGandANNA SCHAVERIENJUNE 5, 2020
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The police dispersed a peaceful protest outside the White House this week so that President Trump could travel where?
Arlington National Cemetery
The Martin Luther King Jr. memorial
St. John’s Church
Washington National Cathedral
Which country said it would allow nearly three million people from Hong Kong to live and work there if China moves forward with a new national security law?
Britain
Germany
Japan
U.S.
Ella Jones, above, won the mayoral election in which city, becoming the first African-American and first woman to do so?
Charleston, S.C.
Cleveland
Ferguson, Mo.
Sanford, Fla.
Hundreds of employees at a social media company protested executives’ decision not to do anything about inflammatory posts that President Trump had placed on which platform?
Facebook
Snapchat
Twitter
YouTube
President Trump postponed the annual summit of which international group, calling its membership “outdated”?
NATO
The Group of 7
The World Bank
UNESCO
Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia ordered a statue removed in Richmond, the capital.
The statue is of which person?
Jefferson Davis
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Destruction of tropical forests worldwide increased last year, led again by which country?
Indonesia
Colombia
Brazil
The Philippines
Already confronting the world’s largest measles epidemic, as well as the coronavirus, the Democratic Republic of Congo was faced with a new outbreak of which disease?
Cholera
Malaria
Dengue fever
Ebola
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were in the news this week.
They are associated with which organization?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Minneapolis Police Department
NASA
The N.F.L.
#BlackoutTuesday, a movement on social media that began as an attempt to pause business as usual in response to the protests sweeping the U.S., morphed into a sea of black boxes across Instagram and other platforms.
The movement originated in which industry?
Music
Sports
TV
Theater
Christo, the conceptual artist who turned to epic-scale environmental works in the late 1960s, died last Sunday at 84.
In one of his most famous works, he wrapped which government building in fabric in 1995?
The Houses of Parliament in Tokyo
The Reichstag in Berlin
The Palace of Westminster in London
The U.S. Capitol in Washington
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