WorksheetsCurrent Events from the NYTimes Student Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
This person faced a sustained barrage of criticism from her Democratic rivals at a presidential debate in Ohio on Oct. 15, illustrating her status as an emerging front-runner.
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Senator Kamala Harris
Representative Tulsi Gabbard
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Mick Mulvaney, the _______________ , threw the Trump administration’s defense against impeachment into disarray on Oct. 17 when he said that the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine to further President Trump’s political interests.
acting White House chief of staff
ambassador to the European Union
secretary of state
special envoy for Ukraine
On Oct. 16, the announcement of _______________ upended life for hundreds of thousands in Chicago and became one of the first significant challenges for its mayor, Lori Lightfoot.
an emergency election
a teachers’ strike
government budget cuts
incessant signal malfunctions in the city’s rapid transit system
NASA reached a milestone on Oct. 18 when two American astronauts, tasked with replacing a power controller, ventured out of the International Space Station and became the first to _______________ .
orbit the earth while outside of a space shuttle
repair damage caused by comet debris
take part in an all-female spacewalk
use robotic arms to aid in space navigation
A World Series game was played in ____________ for the first time in more than 80 years this past week.
Colorado
Minnesota
Texas
Washington DC
On Oct. 16, in a rare break with a president they are normally unwilling to criticize, two-thirds of House Republicans, including all of the party’s elected leaders, joined Democrats in approving a resolution that opposed Mr. Trump’s .
acquiescence to the Turkish assault against the Kurds
decision to host the next Group of 7 meeting at one of his resort hotels
efforts to stonewall the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry
refusal to comply with a House committee’s demands for his tax records
Two days after Britain and the European Union agreed on a Brexit deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a stinging defeat as Parliament rebuffed his campaign to take Britain out of the European Union by the end of the month and forced him to .
abandon the goal of withdrawal from the Euproean Union
announce new elections for prime minister
request a second national referendum vote on Brexit
seek an extension that he had vowed never to pursue
Three major ___________ distributors and a generic drug manufacturer have reached a settlement worth $260 million to avoid the landmark first federal ___________ trial that was set to begin in Cleveland on Oct. 21.
automobile; car-safety
drug; opioid
e-cigarette; vaping
firearms; gun violence
After a black hole consumed everything in the game this weekend, was back online Oct. 15, featuring a new map.
Borderlands
Fortnite
League of Legends
Overwatch
Three of the articles below about Facebook and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, were recently published in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?
“Defiant Zuckerberg Says Facebook Won’t Police Political Speech”
“Facebook Finds New Disinformation Campaigns and Braces for 2020 Torrent”
“Facebook Lays On the Charm for Its Libra Cryptocurrency Plan”
“Mark Zuckerberg Argues High Taxes on Wealthy Could Stifle Innovation in Human Suffering”
