With the partial shutdown about ____% of the government is closed.

What country is the only close ally (friend) of North Korea?

Which of these international organizations was created in 1993?

What cause the US Airways Flight 1549 to crash in the Hudson river 10 years ago?

About 1,200 miles of the 1,954-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico runs along what U.S. state?

What is ongoing in Venezuela ?

Who is Venezuela`s opposition leader?

Who is the U.S. Secretary of State?

What country is accused of interfering in

the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Who is the founder and CEO of Facebook?

What has President Trump voiced his support for?

According to the Food and Drug administration what was there a large increase in?

In what country is Mount Everest located?

What did the Senate vote to overturn 59 to 41?

___________, Cuba, and Russia have said they are behind President Maduro in Venezuela.

When it was airborne the Concorde could cruise at how many miles per hour?

:10 Trivia: When on object travels faster than 760 miles per hour at sea level, it is said to be what?

There have been more than 900 cases of ______ in the Democratic Republic of Congo since last August.

On Wall Street, a _____ market is when prices are rising and is one sign that the U.S. economy is doing well.

It is the _____ birthday of the current stock market bull run.

:10 Trivia: During what war did the U.S. officially begin to observe daylight-saving time?

What was the model of the airplane that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia?

The U.S. government is trying to keep American wireless companies from buying telecommunications equipment made by what Chinese company?

The leader of what country announced that a missile fired from the ground had successfully destroyed one of its own satellites in low orbit?

How many countries are in the European Union?

Britain only produces half of the food that it actually eats.

Last week President Trump said he would sign a proclamation recognizing a territory called ______ as being part of Israel.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from what country during the Six Day War?

:10 Trivia: What country is the world's largest producer of oil?

The Northern Lights or aurora borealis are commonly seen in Alaska, Canada, Iceland, and ______.

In the Northern Lights what gives off blue and purple light?

Fast food is now a $130 billion a year business in what country?

What fast food chain's app in China has more than 160 million users?

Name the former director of the FBI who recently concluded a special counsel investigation concerning U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia, and the 2016 presidential campaign.

Though international military officials still consider ISIS a threat, the terrorist group has lost its last major stronghold in what Middle Eastern nation?

What naturally occurring phenomenon, which can be seen above Earth's magnetic north pole, is caused by charged particles released from the sun?

This week, the Parliament of the United Kingdom took control of the Brexit process from the government of what prime minister?

Name the U.S. aerospace company that is working to restore confidence in its 737 MAX series aircraft following two catastrophic accidents within five months.

India's prime minister recently announced that his country had become a space superpower after a rocket it launched completed what task?

What is the only country on earth that still has a symbolic leader with the title of emperor, though he's expected to abdicate his throne in about a month?

Promises of support, prayers, and donations from around the world followed a shooting at two mosques in what South Pacific nation?

People in what country need health care, medicines, water, electricity, education, and access to food?

What country is America's closest ally in the Middle East?

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of __________.

Who wants to fully control the appointment of the next Dalai Lama?

The United States was a founding member of NATO in what year?

NATO has how many member countries?

What country has kicked off what's been called the world's largest democratic exercise?

What country has a new military base above the Arctic Circle?

The ________ wants to build a new heavy icebreaker.

What historic Catholic cathedral in Paris caught on fire earlier this year?

The suspected winner in Israel's election was

National Science Foundation say that captured a picture of of what

On what continent would you find the country of Kyrgyzstan?

British Prime Minister Theresa May has requested that the EU extend the Brexit deadline again.

At Notre Dame, workers were not able to get any of the famous artwork out of the burning building.

The African nation of Sudan has seen how many leaders in how many days in the wake of a military coup?

Health official in what state are scrambling to contain a measles outbreak which is now the longest in the U.S. since before the disease was eliminated?

For the first time the United States says part of another nation's government is a foreign terrorist organization. That other nation is _____.

Which natural resource is Venezuela’s economy closely tied to?

What specific government policy put Venezuelan economy in deep trouble before the oil price collapse

Why did most importers stop bringing goods into Venezuela

With Venezuela essentially being run by "criminal gangs" and the police and government indiscriminately arresting, executing and torturing its citizen why don't citizens arm themselves?

The government or groups of workers control the means of production

Private corporations or private individuals control the means of production

Self Interest, Competition and Supply & Demand are the 3 natural laws of economics

Rather than competition, goods should be distributed according to each person’s need

The government has significant control over the economy and provides basic services like health care and housing.

The United States has a _____ economy and Venezuela has a _____ economy.

Socialism wants __________ ownership of businesses

The government or groups of workers might control these resources but the profits are divided among the people.

Democratic Republic of Congo is on what continent?