2023 Current Events Random

New York City employers are now required to include __________ in job postings.

• Salary Ranges

• Minimum hours of work/week

• Maximum hours of work/week

• Health Benefits

A federal judge has blocked ______ proposed purchase of Simon and Shuster, agreeing that the joining of two of the world’s biggest publishers could “lessen competition” for “top-selling books”.

• Penguin Random House

• Scholastic, Inc

• HarperCollins Publishers

• Getty Publications

School districts across the state of _________ are prohibited from using any Native American mascots, team names or logos and must comply by the end of the school year or risk losing state aid.

• Oklahoma

• New York

• Pennsylvania

• Washington

Olivia Pichardo became the first woman to be on the roster of a Division I college baseball team in the U.S. For what university will Pichardo play for?

• Yale

• Brown

• Stanford

• Penn

Japan's Disney store is now selling merchandise online that features what character holding up a blank white sheet of paper — a symbol of China's lockdown protests?

• Winnie the Pooh

• Mickey Mouse

• Donald Duck

• Goofy

What nation’s parliament unanimously voted to ban sex outside of marriage?

• North Korea

• Indonesia

• Iran

• Sudan

What rental car company will pay a $168 million settlement for falsely accusing hundreds of innocent customers of stealing its vehicles, many of which resulted in arrests, felony charges and jail time.

• Avis

• Alamo

• Hertz

• Enterprise

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments of the case 303 Creative v. Elenis which will test whether Colorado’s public accommodations law, which bans businesses from discriminating against LGBTQ customers, can have exceptions based on the type of business it is. What is the business in question?

• Custom wedding cakes

• Custom wedding websites

• Custom wedding dresses

• Custom floral design

The U.S.  Postal Service announced that it will honor former U.S. Representative _________________, who spent decades fighting for racial justice including leading the famous march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from Selma to Montgomery.

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• John Lewis

• Philip Randolph

• Whitney Young

A ruptured pipe part of the Keystone pipeline dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool, becoming the largest onshore crude pipeline spill in 9 years. In what state did the pipe rupture?

• Alaska

• North Dakota

• Kansas

• Texas