CNN10 Weekly News Quiz 3/15-19

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

• paying them

• suspending them

• holding a virtual spring break

• cancelling spring break

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

• China

• Japan

• Myanmar

• North Korea

What nation is concerned about violence, damage to its factories, and injuries to its civilians in the country named in question 2?

• Myanmar

• China

• Japan

• North Korea

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

• Spain

• France

• Germany

• Italy

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 River

• Mississippi River

• Missouri River

• Ohio River

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 applications

• college graduates

• community colleges

• college enrollment

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.

• Avenue of the Americas

• Broadway

• Wall Street

• Park Avenue

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

• American Red Cross

• Action Against Hunger

• Step Up for Students

• Doctors Without Borders

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

• Yellow Sea

• Bering Sea

• Dead Sea

• Caribbean Sea

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

• a meteoroid

• a comet

• an asteriod

• an exoplanet