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News Quiz: Supreme Court, Coronavirus, North Korea
Compiled byCHRIS STANFORD,WILL DUDDINGandANNA SCHAVERIENJUNE 19, 2020
Did you follow the headlines this week? Take our quiz to find out.Last week, 96 percent of respondents correctly answered the question about the protester in Buffalo who was shoved by the police. Only 39 percent knew the country led by President Pierre Nkurunziza.The quiz is published on Fridays.Click here for other weeks’ quizzes.Related Article
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a landmark civil rights law protected gay and transgender people, in a decision focused primarily on discrimination in which area?
Education
Health care
The military
The workplace
A new outbreak of coronavirus cases connected to a food market led to a partial lockdown of which city?
Beijing
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Wuhan
Scientists at the University of Oxford said that an inexpensive and commonly available drug, dexamethasone, reduced deaths in patients with severe Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Dexamethasone is what type of drug?
Antibiotic
Decongestant
Statin
Steroid
A dispute in which 20 soldiers were killed erupted along China’s border with which country?
India
Nepal
Russia
Vietnam
After a police officer fatally shot a black man outside a fast-food restaurant, the officer was fired and the police chief resigned in which city?
Atlanta
Nashville
Oklahoma City
Washington
Which brand will get a new name and image after its owner acknowledged that its origins were “based on a racial stereotype”?
Aunt Jemima
Eskimo Pies
Land O’ Lakes
Washington Redskins
The Trump administration tried to delay the publication of a highly anticipated memoir by which person?
John Kelly
John Bolton
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Jeff Sessions
Kim Yo-jong of North Korea, above, criticized President Moon Jae-in of South Korea this week, as relations between the two countries deteriorated.
Ms. Kim is related to the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in what way?
Cousin
Girlfriend
Sister
Wife
As part of the movement to topple perceived symbols of racism and oppression in the U.S., a statue was removed in Albuquerque.
It was a monument to which person?
Christopher Columbus
A Confederate soldier
A conquistador
A Native American
The journalist Maria Ressa was convicted of cyber libel by a court in which country?
Indonesia
Mexico
The Philippines
Thailand
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last-surviving sibling of former President John F. Kennedy, died on Wednesday at 92.
She was the first Kennedy woman of her generation to take on a serious political role, when in the 1990s she was named the U.S. ambassador to which country?
Australia
Denmark
France
Ireland
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