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News Quiz: Coronavirus, Ventilators, Ellis Marsalis Jr.
Compiled byCHRIS STANFORD,WILL DUDDINGandANNA SCHAVERIENAPRIL 3, 2020
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Who became the first leader of a major Western nation to contract the coronavirus?
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada
Which U.S. official will receive enhanced personal security after becoming the target of online conspiracy theorists during the pandemic?
Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary
Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s response coordinator
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
As of Friday, which country claimed to have had no cases of the coronavirus?
Brazil
North Korea
Russia
Sweden
Amid a shortage of medical equipment in the U.S., Ventec Life Systems partnered with which company to accelerate production of ventilators?
3M
Boeing
Caterpillar
General Motors
The parliament of which country granted Prime Minister Viktor Orban, above center, the power to rule by decree?
Austria
Czech Republic
Hungary
Slovakia
Ellis Marsalis Jr. was the patriarch of a New Orleans family of jazz musicians. He died on Wednesday at 85, from complications related to Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Mr. Marsalis was known for playing which instrument?
Piano
Saxophone
Trombone
Trumpet
Which newly popular app has faced scrutiny, including by the New York attorney general’s office, for its data privacy and security practices?
Grubhub
Slack
TikTok
Zoom
Criticized for furloughing workers after being granted $25 million in federal coronavirus relief funding, which arts organization defended its need for the money?
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Endowment for the Arts
The Trump administration this week completed a rollback of an Obama-era environmental rule affecting what?
Agricultural runoff
Automobile fuel efficiency
Coal plant emissions
Offshore drilling
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, wound down their popular social media sites and transferred the management of their brand to a new team of advisers in the city to which they recently moved.
What is that city?
Los Angeles
Montreal
New York
Toronto
A popular new Netflix documentary, featuring a man known as Joe Exotic, has brought new leads in an unsolved disappearance in Florida.
What is the title of the series?
“Abducted in Plain Sight”
“Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”
“The Keepers”
“Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness”
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