CNN10_Weekly Quiz(18Nov)

In addition to eye and back problems, a new study (detailed on Monday's show) suggests that reverse blood flow and blood clots could be health concerns for people hoping to do what?

• Survive the fires in Australia

• live in the most polluted country in the world

• travel into space/become astronauts

• participate in Hong Kong protest

In what Italian city are officials assessing the damage from a recent high tide that's believed to be the second-highest in the city's history?

• Vatican City

• Venice

• Rome

• Italy

What Middle Eastern nation, a theocratic republic, has recently seen nationwide protests amid rising gas prices, economic problems, supply shortages and high unemployment?

• Iran

• Iraq

• Afghanistan

• Turkey

In what European country have biologists blamed habitat loss as the main reason behind significant declines in large moth and butterfly populations?

• Great Britian/UK

• Germany

• Vatican City

• France

This week, the U.S. government made a shift in policy concerning Israeli settlements in what disputed territory?

• The West Bank

• Gaza Strip

• Jerusalem

• Syria

Wednesday's show explored the upsides and downsides of products made by Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which offer plant-based alternatives to what?

• Beef

• Meat

• Burger

• all the above

Where would you find three-quarters of the world's freshwater and about 10 percent of its total land area?

• in glaciers/glacier ice

• Alaska

• Australia

• Russia

What involuntary contraction of the diaphragm may help babies learn to control their breathing, as suggested by a new study out of University College London?

• Yawning

• hiccups

• spasms

• laughing

Name the prime minister of Israel, who was recently charged in criminal investigations though he denies any wrongdoing.

• Benjamin Netanyahu

• Theresa May

• Emmanuel Macron

• Angela Merkel

Dean Foods, a company that recently filed for bankruptcy protection, is America's largest producer of what?

• beef

• milk

• plastic

• shoes