September Questions

1. ______________has died at the age of 91. He was the archetype of Italian style and elegance, reimagining men's and women's suits for a modern audience.

• Albert ElbaZ

• Giorgio Armani

• Roberto Cavalli

• Gianni Versace

1. A federal judge ruled in favor of ______________  in a landmark victory in its fight against the Trump administration. The judge sided with the school in its effort to restore more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House.

• Brown University

• Columbia University

• Harvard University

• Yale University

1. The governors of California, Oregon and Washington announced this week that they were forming an alliance to set their own guidance about what, in opposition to recent changes in the federal government? 

• 1. Carbon emissions

• Disaster relief

• Vaccines

• 1. Mail-in voting

1. The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference. A spokesperson said the "GPS jamming" happened while the plane  was about to arrive in southern Bulgaria on Sunday, but she still landed safely. Who is von der Leyen?

• 1. President of the European Union

• President of United Nations

• 1. U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine

• 1. Prime Minister of Poland

1. President Donald Trump announced that he will award ________________ , Trump’s former personal attorney, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. 

• 1. Michael Cohen

• 1. Leticia James

• 1. Rudy Giuliani 

• 1. Robert Mueller

1. At least 2,205 were killed and 3,640 others injured after the 6.0-magnitude quake struck towns and villages in ___________.

• Pakistan

• Afghanistan

• India

• Iraq

1. A landslide wiped out a village in _________’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history.

• Somalia

• 1. Sudan

• 1. Ethiopia

• Chad

1. The leaders of China, Russia and North Korea have appeared in public together for the first time in a show of solidarity at a massive military parade in __________.

• China

• 1. Russia

• 1. North Korea

• 1. Iran

1. The United States conducted a deadly military strike against an alleged drug boat tied to the ______________ cartel. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the “lethal strike” as taking place in the “southern Caribbean” against “a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela.” The use of military force against Latin American drug cartels represents a significant escalation by the Trump administration and could have serious implications for the region.

• Medellin

• 1. Sinaloa

• 1. Tren de Aragua

• 1. La Familia Michoacana

1. After a ruling earlier this year that Google has a monopoly, a federal judge ruled this week that the company must do what?

• Break up into smaller companies

• 1. Make its search algorithm open source

• 1. Sell the Chrome browser

• 1. Share its search data with competitors