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News Quiz: Amy Coney Barrett, Lockdowns, Anonymous
Compiled byWILL DUDDINGandANDREA KANNAPELLOCT. 30, 2020
Did you follow the headlines this week? Take our quiz to find out.Last week, 98 percent of respondents knew which issue Pope Francis appeared to support in a documentary. Only 25 percent knew the online target that Russian military officers were not accused of planning to attack.The quiz is published on Fridays.Click here for other weeks’ quizzes.Related Article
Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the newest member of the Supreme Court.
Which sitting justice administered the constitutional oath to her on Monday night?
Justice Samuel Alito
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
Chief Justice John Roberts
Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court decisions issued on Wednesday allowed officials in two battleground states to accept ballots for days after this coming Tuesday’s election.
Which are those states?
Michigan and Wisconsin
Ohio and Florida
Pennsylvania and North Carolina
Texas and Georgia
Which city emerged from one of the world’s longest and most severe coronavirus lockdowns?
Cologne, Germany
Marseille, France
Melbourne, Australia
São Paulo, Brazil
More than 90,000 people were given emergency evacuation orders because of the rapid spread of two wildfires in which state?
California
Colorado
Idaho
Oregon
The anonymous senior official in the Trump administration who spoke out against President Trump in a New York Times Op-Ed in 2018 revealed his identity. He is Miles Taylor.
Which cabinet department did he serve in?
Energy
Health and Human Services
Homeland Security
Justice
Which country voted to replace its Constitution, which was written under a 20th century dictatorship?
Brunei
Chile
Iran
Zimbabwe
Another hurricane hit the Louisiana coast this week, the fifth for this hurricane season. What was it called?
Hurricane Zaire
Hurricane Zeta
Hurricane Zika
Hurricane Zulu
After an abandoned newborn was found in an airport bathroom, female passengers on a plane belonging to which airline were pulled from a flight and stripsearched to determine whether they had recently given birth?
Cathay Pacific Airways
Emirates
Qatar Airways
Singapore Airlines
On Sunday, Pope Francis elevated Archbishop Wilton Gregory, above, to cardinal, making him the first African-American to bear the title.
Which archdiocese does he lead?
Chicago
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Washington
The Chinese technology titan Ant Group, a sister company to the e-commerce giant Alibaba, is set to raise $34 billion in coming weeks in the largest initial public offering on record.
Which company’s I.P.O. will it supplant?
Alibaba
Agricultural Bank of China
Big Hit Entertainment
Saudi Aramco
Scientists announced evidence of the widespread distribution of water on the surface of which celestial body?
Mars
The moon
Titan
Venus
An earlier version of a question with this quiz misstated the actions of the airline involved in an incident that followed the discovery of an abandoned infant in an airport bathroom. The airline asked all female passengers to leave the plane. It did not stripsearch them.
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