August Questions

1. Democratic lawmakers in Texas left the state to prevent the Legislature from taking a vote on what?

• 1. A bill defunding public libraries

• 1. A bill outlawing medical marijuana

• 1. A ban on transgender athletes in girls’ sports

• 1. A new congressional map

1. President Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after her agency released a jobs report. What did he say was his reason?

• 1. He said she accidentally sent the report to Kim Jong Un.

• 1. He said she didn’t wear a MAGA hat at the news conference.

• 1. He said she refused to delay the release of the report.

• 1. He said she rigged the data.

1. __________chief executive announced that the company would invest $100 billion in the U.S., after he presented Trump a 24-karat gold gift. 

• X

• 1. Facebook

• 1. Apple

• 1. Toyota

1. Trump said this week that he would double tariffs on India, to 50 percent, as punishment for its continued purchase of oil from which country?

• Iran

• 1. Russia

• 1. Saudi Arabia

• 1. Venezuela

1. A zoo in Denmark recently asked members of the public to donate what to its lions and lynxes?

• 1. Old sweaters

• 1. Leftover birthday cakes

• 1. Dying pets

• Discarded chicken bones

Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion _____ off the Pacific coast of North America during a decade-long epidemic caused by bacteria infecting shellfish

• mussels

• salmon

• crabs

• Starfish

1. The party of _______ President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the Legislative Assembly allowing indefinite presidential reelection and extending presidential terms to six years.

• Brazil

• Honduras

• Colombia

• 1. El Salvador

1. _______ scientists launched an anti-poaching initiative by injecting radioactive materials into rhino horns to help customs officials detect smuggling.

• Kenyan

• South African

• Nigerian

• Angolan

1. The U.S. Senate confirmed former Fox News host _________ as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.

• 1. Laura Ingraham

• Bret Baier

• 1. David Asman

• 1. Jeanine Pirro

1. For the first time in its 90-years history, all major _____ casinos are now unionized after the Culinary Workers Union secured new labor contracts covering over 40,000 workers.

• 1. Atlantic City

• Reno

• 1. Las Vegas Strip

• 1. Gulf Coast