How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?
How well did you follow the news this past week? How many of these 10 questions can you get right?
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The Learning Network|Weekly News Quiz for Students: Joe Biden, U.S. Infection Rates, Saturday Night Live
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The Learning Network|Weekly News Quiz for Students
Weekly News Quiz for Students: Joe Biden, U.S. Infection Rates, Saturday Night Live
Compiled byJEREMY ENGLEandJOHN OTISAPRIL 14, 2020

Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed over the past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer.
Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
ended his presidential candidacy on April 8, clearing the way for a general election between the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and President Trump at a time of national crisis.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg
Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts
The coronavirus is infecting and killingin the United States at disproportionately high rates, according to data released by several states and big cities.
African-Americans
Asian-Americans
Children under 18
Women
on April 8 ended its lockdown of, the city where the coronavirus first emerged and a potent symbol in a pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people, shaken the global economy and thrown daily life into upheaval across the planet.
China; Wuhan
Iran; Tehran
Italy; Milan
South Korea; Seoul
forged ahead with its presidential primary election on April 7, the first state to hold in-person voting during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
Alaska
Connecticut
Ohio
Wisconsin
, the chief executive of, said on April 7 that he planned to donate $1 billion, or just under a third of his total wealth, to relief programs related to the coronavirus.
Elon Musk; SpaceX
Jack Dorsey; Twitter
Jeff Bezos; Amazon
Mark Zuckerberg; Facebook
What made Saturday Night Live different this week? For the first time in the show’s 45-year history,.
a new episode aired on a Sunday night
no ‘Weekend Update’ segment aired
there was no live studio audience
there was no musical guest
Saudi Arabia on April 8 announced that the kingdom and its allies would observe a unilateral cease-fire in the war instarting at noon on April 9, a move that could pave the way for ending the brutal five-year-old conflict.
Iran
Lebanon
Syria
Yemen
President Trump moved on April 7 to oust the leader of a new watchdog panel charged with overseeing.
how his administration spends trillions of taxpayer dollars in coronavirus pandemic relief
possible conflicts of interest and violations of the emoluments clause of the Constitution
regulation of carbon emissions
the enforcement of federal voting rights laws
New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that travelers brought in the virus mainly from.
Asia
Australia
Canada
Europe
Three of the articles below about creative responses to shortages caused by the coronavirus were recently published in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?
"Broadway Will Remain Closed at Least Until June, and Probably Longer"
"Burning Man Falls Victim to Pandemic"
"Disney Announces Plans To Release ‘Mulan’ Directly Into Americans’ Consciousness"
"Quibi Is Coming. Here Are the Famous People Making Shows for It."
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