Advisory News Quiz January 25, 2021

In his final hours as president, Donald J. Trump pardoned 73 people. Who of the following was not among them?

• Steve Bannon, charged with defrauding Trump supporters by misusing money for a border wall

• Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty to participating in a covert lobbying campaign on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests

• Randall (Duke) Cunningham, a former congressman who took $2.4 million in bribes from military contractors

• Rudolph Giuliani, who urged Trump supporters to engage in “trial by combat” shortly before they stormed the Capitol

• Kwame Kilpatrick, a former mayor of Detroit who used his office to enrich himself through bribes

Amanda Gorman — a 22-year-old poet, who read “The Hill We Climb” shortly after President Biden’s address — became a star of the inauguration. What word finished this line in Gorman’s poem?

Somehow we've weathered and witnessed

a nation that isn't broken

but simply ______________________.

• Battered

• Breaking

• Great

• Hurting

• Unfinished

Who is this?

• Bernie Sanders

• Janet Yellen

• Amanda Gorman

• Jill Biden

• Nancy Pelosi

On his first day in office, Biden recommitted the U.S. to being part of the World Health Organization — which President Trump had pulled out of. Whom did Biden send to represent the U.S. at a meeting of the organization the day after the inauguration?

• Xavier Becerra

• Hillary Clinton

• Andrew Cuomo

• Anthony Fauci

• Kamala Harris

Which of the following will be true of Biden’s cabinet, if current nominees are confirmed?

Note: You should select three — and only three — of the five items.

• It will have more people of color than any prior cabinet.

• It will have more women than any previous cabinet.

• It will have the youngest cabinet member in U.S. history - Pete Buttigieg, age 39.

• All cabinet members will have physical offices in the White House.

• Eric Lander will be the first director of science and technology policy to have cabinet rank.

Which three new senators were sworn in last week?

• Doug Jones

• Laura Montez

• Jon Ossoff

• Alex Padilla

• Rafael Warnock

Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, returned to the country this week for the first time since being poisoned. What happened when he arrived at the airport?

• He was arrested within minutes.

• He was denied entry and sent back to Germany.

• He was invited to meet President Vladimir Putin at his palace on the Black Sea.

• He joined his supporters in a protest march.

What’s happening in this picture?

• A crew is filming “The King of Bangkok,” one of the first big-budget Hollywood films to begin production since the pandemic began.

• Police officials are trying to reconstruct the escape route of pro-democracy activists whom the Thai government had imprisoned.

• Medical researchers are investigating the origins of the coronavirus in a Thai cave famous for its bat population.

• Tourists from the first cruise to stop in Thailand in nine months are visiting a popular shrine.

The National Hockey League made some changes this season, in response to the pandemic. Which one of these moves did the N.H.L. make?

• Banned physical fighting between players.

• Established a bubble in Duluth, Minn., where all teams will spend five months.

• Prohibited players from kissing the Stanley Cup.

• Temporarily renamed one team: the Las Vegas First Responders.

• Created a division of only Canadian teams, to avoid cross-border travel.

On Saturday, a team of 10 climbers became the first to reach the top of K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain, in the winter.

K2 straddles which two countries?

• Bhutan

• China

• India

• Nepal

• Pakistan