News Quiz for March 19, 2021

What kind of animal, according to researchers in Japan, was recently found to have been able to shed its body (except for its head) and grow a new one?

• Sea slugs
• Cicada
• Snails
• Prawn

What is the University of California-Davis doing to discourage students from traveling during spring break?

• paying them ($75)
• Free pizza every day
• Closing the roads
• Locking them in their dorms

What nation in southeast Asia recently saw a flare-up of violence during ongoing protests of a recent military coup?

• Myanmar (Burma)
• Japan
• Vietnam
• Hong Kong

What European nation, which was the first Western democracy to go into lockdown last year, recently enacted another lockdown for most of its population?

• Italy
• Greece
• The Netherlands
• Belgium

What river, which forms a natural border between Mexico and the U.S., has seen an increase in migrants trying to cross the border illegally?

• Rio Grande
• Mississippi
• Ohio
• Missouri

Between spring 2020 and spring 2021, the U.S. saw an estimated 2.9 percent decrease in what, according to the National Student Clearinghouse?

• college enrollment
• Fortnite players
• Failing grades
• Coffee consumption

Name the street in New York City that has been hosting plays for centuries but that hasn't been shut down for a full year since the Revolutionary War.

• Broadway
• Scioto Trail
• Highway 101
• Wall Street

What American humanitarian group reported that 20 percent of the blood donations it recently received from unvaccinated people contained antibodies for coronavi

• (American) Red Cross
• Greenpeace
• Salvation Army
• Illuminati

Near what body of water did researchers recently find book fragments from the Biblical prophets Zechariah and Nahum?

• Dead Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Lake Huron
• River Styx

According to a new scientific theory, an interstellar object that passed through our solar system in 2017 was actually a what?

• asteroid (or part of a planet)
• Millenium Falcon
• Small Moon
• Space Station