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News Quiz: Coronavirus, Walt Disney, Little Richard
Compiled byCHRIS STANFORD,WILL DUDDINGandANNA SCHAVERIENMAY 15, 2020
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After two White House aides tested positive for the coronavirus, all West Wing employees were ordered to do what?
Limit group meetings
Receive daily tests
Wear masks
Work from home
Which city announced a plan to test all of its 11 million residents for the coronavirus in the coming days?
Jakarta, Indonesia
Mumbai, India
Seoul, South Korea
Wuhan, China
A commonly used measure of the rate of the spread of the coronavirus exceeded a crucial threshold this week in Germany, coinciding with a second major phase of its reopening.
That measure, or factor, is expressed using which letter?
C
R
X
Z
After closing its resorts because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Walt Disney Company reopened one of its theme parks on a limited basis in which city?
Orlando
Paris
Shanghai
Tokyo
A state Supreme Court rejected the extension of a stay-at-home order, a high-profile challenge of the emergency authority of a statewide official during the pandemic.
The ruling occurred in which state?
Georgia
Michigan
Tennessee
Wisconsin
A lawmaker temporarily stepped down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee as the Justice Department investigates whether the lawmaker sold hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of stocks using nonpublic information about the coronavirus.
Which senator was it?
Richard Burr, Republican of North Carolina
Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California
James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma
Kelly Loeffler, Republican of Georgia
Because of the pandemic, a public university system in which state became the first to announce that instruction this fall would take place almost exclusively online?
California
Florida
New York
Texas
Which former Trump aide was released from prison this week and granted home confinement because of the pandemic?
Michael Cohen
Michael Flynn
Paul Manafort
George Papadopoulos
The producers of a Broadway musical announced that it would not reopen once the pandemic eases, making it the first major production to be canceled in part because of the coronavirus.
Which musical was it?
“Frozen”
“Hamilton”
“The Lion King”
“Wicked”
At least 19 sailors were killed after a ship’s missile struck another vessel from the same navy.
It was the second apparent friendly-fire accident this year involving the military of which country?
Egypt
Indonesia
Iran
North Korea
Little Richard, the flamboyant rock ’n’ roll pioneer, died last Saturday at 87.
What was the title of his first hit, from 1955?
“Good Golly Miss Molly”
“Long Tall Sally”
“Lucille”
“Tutti Frutti”
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