Current Events Quiz

Name NASA’s “quiet” supersonic experimental aircraft that may revolutionize air travel.

• X-59

• X-48

• X-21

In what country are doctors protesting the government’s plans to increase medical school admissions?

• Indonesia

• South Korea

• Japan

What’s the name of the flower that can take years to bloom and smells like rotting flesh?

• Death Flower or Titan Arul

• Dungeon Flower or Titan Arus

• Corpse flower or Titan Arum 

Where did the US recently begin to airdrop emergency humanitarian assistance?

• Gaza

• Iraq

• China

Name the sea where Philippine and Chinese ships collided in disputed waters this week.

• The South China Sea

• The Aegean Sea

• The Red Sea

What inundated a Utah town due to a windstorm?

• Tumbleweed

• Roly-polys

• Pine Needles

The Environmental Defense Fund launched a satellite to locate and image leaks of which greenhouse gas?

• Octane

• Methane

• CO₂

Cookie Monster got in the news recently discussing which economic trend?

• Inflation

• Shrinkflation

• Deflation

How old is our Universe?

• Approximately 4.4 billion years old  

• Approximately 13.8 billion years old  

• Approximately 18.3 billion years old  

This civil rights pioneer refused to give a seat to a White passenger 9 months before Rosa Parks.

• Claudette Colvin 

• Calvin Coolidge

• Claude Culver