Current Events Final Review (2023)

The Moral Machine provides scenarios for a self-driving car whose brakes have failed and has visitors to the site choose which group of people (or even pets) the car would kill. By having people choose in these scenarios, what abstract concept is the experiment trying to determine?

• Idealism

• Cynicism

• Morality

• Justice

What is the name for the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments?

• Maximum spending

• Debt limit or debt ceiling

• National debt

• Treasury limit

Candidates running for the State Supreme Court position cannot run as members of a political party.

• True

• False

Which country invaded Ukraine and is currently at war with them?

• China

• Finland

• Russia

• The United States

The US intends to send military equipment, including M-1 Abrams tanks, to support which country in the conflict happening in their country?

• Russia

• Ukraine

• Syria

• Myanmar

MacKenzie Scott has announced that she has donated $14 billion dollars to around 1,600 non-profit organizations since 2019. Donating money to charitable causes like this is referred to as?

• Philanthropy

• Give-a-ways

• Sweepstakes

• Capitalism

Wisconsin has the nation's largest achievement gap between white and Black students.

• True

• False

A college student at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville is saving $1,500 a month in costs by living where?

• With his parents

• In the dorms

• In his van

• On the streets

The advisory question that will be on the April 4th ballot in Wisconsin will be asking voters whether or not they think which group of people should be required to look for work in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits?

• Able-bodied, childless teenagers

• Single parents

• Retired citizens

• Able-bodied, childless adults

Where does the AstroForge company plan on mining in the future?

• The Moon

• Asteroids in Space

• The Deep Ocean

• Antarctica