NY Times Quiz practice 1/15/2021

Donald Trump this week became the first president to be impeached twice. Who are the TWO presidents to have been impeached once.

• George W Bush

• Bill Clinton

• Richard Nixon

• Andrew Johnson

Which of these House members was among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump — the largest number of a president’s own party ever to do so?

• Lauren Boebert

• Liz Cheney

• Jim Jordan

• Kevin McCarthy

• Steve Scalise

Among the mob that attacked the Capitol last week, photographs show people wearing or carrying a variety of symbols. Which three of these symbols were among them?

• A Sweatshirt with "Camp Auschwitz" printed on it

• Confederate flags

• A poster of a US map showing Trump having won every state but Delaware

• The green and white flags of the fictional country Kekistan, whose design party derived from the Nazi flag

• Buttons saying "Medicare equals fascism"

What are New Yorkers doing inside of these canvas yurts?

• waiting for the COVID vaccine

• voting for Mayor

• dining outside of a restaurant

• protesting the Election

HBO Max ordered a 10-episode reprise of “Sex and the City,” to be called “And Just Like That… .” Which of the four stars said she would not participate?

• Kim Cattrall

• Kristin Davis

• Cynthia Nixon

• Sarah Jessica Parker

Sadyr Japarov won a landslide victory to become Kyrgyzstan’s president this week. Four months ago, he was in jail, serving a sentence for what crime?

• Organizing pro-democracy marches

• Fraudulently overturning a previous election result

• Orchestrating the kidnapping of another politician

• Working for the Chinese Government, in the neighboring Xinjiang region

The Labor Department released a report showing that the job market stagnated in December. Which of these charts represents nationwide employment over the course of 2020?

• A

• B

• C

• D

Alabama won the college football championship this week, its sixth title in 12 years. Who was the last blue-state team — that is, one based in a state that Joe Biden won in 2020 — to win a national championship?

• Georgia, in 2017

• Florida, in 2008

• Southern California, in 2004

• Princeton, in 1896

This map illustrates the percentage of Americans in each state who have ____________________?

• Tested positive for the coronavirus

• Donated to a Trump-aligned political cation committee

• Been vaccinated against COVID-19

• "Smith" as part of their last name

Dutch customs officials this month seized a ham sandwich from a British truck driver entering the Netherlands by ferry.

“Can you take the meat and leave me the bread?” the driver asked.

“I’m sorry,” the officer replied.

What event caused the officer to confiscate the sandwich?

• Brexit

• Blackmarket COVID vaccine ring

• The attack on the Capitol

• Russian Revolution