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News Quiz: Coronavirus, Jobs, Thomas Modly
Compiled byCHRIS STANFORD,WILL DUDDINGandANNA SCHAVERIENAPRIL 10, 2020
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The devastating economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic grew this week, as more people in the U.S. lost their jobs.
In the past three weeks, about how many workers have filed for unemployment benefits?
750,000
4 million
17 million
28 million
After reporting a relatively low rate of coronavirus infections without imposing the kind of stringent measures used by other nations, which country declared a state of emergency this week in seven prefectures?
Japan
The Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
A state Supreme Court reversed the governor’s order to delay an election in which state?
Alaska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, who was hospitalized with a worsening case of the coronavirus, deputized which official to lead the government?
Michael Gove
Priti Patel
Dominic Raab
Rishi Sunak
Partly because of fears of the spread of the coronavirus, a cease-fire in the war in Yemen was announced by which country?
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Turkey
Thomas Modly, above, stepped down as the acting secretary of which government department?
Federal Reserve
Food and Drug Administration
Secret Service
U.S. Navy
Which tech executive promised to donate $1 billion to relief programs related to the coronavirus?
Jack Dorsey
Sheryl Sandberg
Meg Whitman
Mark Zuckerberg
In what is thought to be the first such infection of its kind, an animal at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the coronavirus.
What type of animal was it?
Chimpanzee
Giraffe
Tiger
Zebra
The Easter bunny and the tooth fairy were designated as essential workers during the pandemic by which world leader?
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Chancellor Angela Merkel
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
President Trump
President Trump announced the ouster of Michael Atkinson, above, who is the inspector general of what?
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Environmental Protection Agency
Intelligence community
State Department
Honor Blackman, who had a long acting career in Britain, died this week at 94.
She was perhaps best-known for her role in which James Bond film?
“From Russia With Love”
“Goldfinger”
“Thunderball”
“You Only Live Twice”
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