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News Quiz: Vaccine Trials, BTS, Apple
Compiled byWILL DUDDING,ANNA SCHAVERIENandJESSICA ANDERSONOCT. 16, 2020
Did you follow the headlines this week? Take our quiz to find out.Last week, 96 percent of respondents knew which state’s governor was the target of a kidnapping plot. Only 19 percent knew what “Saturday Night Live” handed out to its studio audience at its season premiere.The quiz is published on Fridays.Click here for previous weeks’ quizzes.Related Article
Which drugmaker paused its coronavirus vaccine trial on Monday because of a participant’s “unexplained illness”?
Eli Lilly
Johnson & Johnson
Novavax
Zydus Cadila
What did the California Republican Party admit to placing across the state?
Billboards calling Kamala Harris a “monster”
Erroneous voting instructions
Deceptively labeled ballot boxes
Malfunctioning voting machines
Which two countries are in a battle over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh?
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Armenia and Turkey
Azerbaijan and Georgia
Turkey and Georgia
Jaime Harrison, above, raised a record $57 million from July through September, the highest quarterly fund-raising total for any Senate candidate in U.S. history.
Who is he challenging in November?
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado
Senator Martha McSally of Arizona
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Carlo Acutis, a young Italian, may become the first millennial what?
Bishop
Cardinal
King
Saint
Which university has agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million to female professors to address inequity?
Purdue University
Princeton University
Stanford University
Texas A&M University
The K-pop band BTS, above, made comments during a recent Korean War tribute that started a social media storm in which country?
China
Russia
South Korea
United States
The mother of which former U.S. presidential candidate died on Monday at 108?
Hillary Clinton
John Kerry
John McCain
Mitt Romney
Which UNESCO world heritage site opened for one tourist who, because of a pandemic lockdown, waited seven months to visit it?
Machu Picchu
The Statue of Liberty
Taj Mahal
Vatican City
Which soccer star has tested positive for the coronavirus?
Sam Kerr
Lionel Messi
Megan Rapinoe
Cristiano Ronaldo
The iPhone 12 has arrived. Which of its improvements has Apple emphasized?
Its 5G capability
Its larger size
Its improved speakers
Its watertightness
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