JEM News B Part 2

Spain is the world's biggest producer of this product, accounting for more than two-fifths of the global supply last year. Greece, Italy, and Portugal are also major producers. A drought this summer threatened the supply of what?

• sunflower oil

• rapeseed

• corn

• olive oil

Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for what?

• knowingly overcharging officials for stays in Trump hotel properties

• contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena related to the Jan. 6th, 2021 Capitol riot

• lying under oath, saying the Uvalde school shooting was a hoax

• secretly hiding classified documents in unsecure locations

What is the goal of NASA's Artemis program?

• to colonize Mars and planets beyond

• to detect life in outer space

• to place astronauts on the lunar surface and to develop an ongoing presence there

• to establish a permanent station in high Earth orbit

A power outage in Central North Carolina ended late Dec. 7th when service was restored to the last of some 45,000 customers who were affected. What caused the outage?

• a squirrel

• ice, part of a winter storm that blanketed the East Coast

• unreasonably high demand

• gunfire that damaged two substations

According to a U.S. Treasury report released in early October, the nation's gross national debt was surpassed by how much?

• $8.507 million

• $17 billion

• $754 billion

• $31.12 trillion

The 118th Congress convened on Jan. 3rd and, on the first day as is tradition, members nominated colleagues as a Speaker of the House. Who one on that day?

• Kevin McCarthy

• Nancy Pelosi

• Hakeem Jeffries

• No One

MEYER Q: How many rounds of votes did it take to choose Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker of the House in 2023?

• 3

• 5

• 10

• 15

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation declared a Tier 2 water shortage for which river, reducing the amount of water provided to users in seven state, including Arizona, which will lose about 20% of its yearly allocation of river water?

• Rio Grande

• Mississippi

• Colorado

• Jordan

The U.S. Defense spending bill authorized increased security cooperation in the region. In response, China's military sent 71 planes and 7 ships in a display of force directed at what self-ruled island that China claims is its own territory?

• Taiwan

• Guam

• Faroe Islands

• Fiji

Following the lead of several other GOP governors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said banning a social media platform run by the Chinese company ByteDance would protect state information from the Chinese Communist Party. What social media platform?

• Facebook

• Vine

• TikTok

• YouTube