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WorksheetsAdvisory News Quiz January 25, 2021
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
In his final hours as president, Donald J. Trump pardoned 73 people. Who of the following was not among them?
Steve Bannon, charged with defrauding Trump supporters by misusing money for a border wall
Elliott Broidy, who pleaded guilty to participating in a covert lobbying campaign on behalf of Chinese and Malaysian interests
Randall (Duke) Cunningham, a former congressman who took $2.4 million in bribes from military contractors
Rudolph Giuliani, who urged Trump supporters to engage in “trial by combat” shortly before they stormed the Capitol
Kwame Kilpatrick, a former mayor of Detroit who used his office to enrich himself through bribes
Amanda Gorman — a 22-year-old poet, who read “The Hill We Climb” shortly after President Biden’s address — became a star of the inauguration. What word finished this line in Gorman’s poem?
Somehow we've weathered and witnessed
a nation that isn't broken
but simply ______________________.
Battered
Breaking
Great
Hurting
Unfinished
Who is this?
Bernie Sanders
Janet Yellen
Amanda Gorman
Jill Biden
Nancy Pelosi
On his first day in office, Biden recommitted the U.S. to being part of the World Health Organization — which President Trump had pulled out of. Whom did Biden send to represent the U.S. at a meeting of the organization the day after the inauguration?
Xavier Becerra
Hillary Clinton
Andrew Cuomo
Anthony Fauci
Kamala Harris
Which of the following will be true of Biden’s cabinet, if current nominees are confirmed?
Note: You should select three — and only three — of the five items.
It will have more people of color than any prior cabinet.
It will have more women than any previous cabinet.
It will have the youngest cabinet member in U.S. history - Pete Buttigieg, age 39.
All cabinet members will have physical offices in the White House.
Eric Lander will be the first director of science and technology policy to have cabinet rank.
Which three new senators were sworn in last week?
Doug Jones
Laura Montez
Jon Ossoff
Alex Padilla
Rafael Warnock
Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, returned to the country this week for the first time since being poisoned. What happened when he arrived at the airport?
He was arrested within minutes.
He was denied entry and sent back to Germany.
He was invited to meet President Vladimir Putin at his palace on the Black Sea.
He joined his supporters in a protest march.
What’s happening in this picture?
A crew is filming “The King of Bangkok,” one of the first big-budget Hollywood films to begin production since the pandemic began.
Police officials are trying to reconstruct the escape route of pro-democracy activists whom the Thai government had imprisoned.
Medical researchers are investigating the origins of the coronavirus in a Thai cave famous for its bat population.
Tourists from the first cruise to stop in Thailand in nine months are visiting a popular shrine.
The National Hockey League made some changes this season, in response to the pandemic. Which one of these moves did the N.H.L. make?
Banned physical fighting between players.
Established a bubble in Duluth, Minn., where all teams will spend five months.
Prohibited players from kissing the Stanley Cup.
Temporarily renamed one team: the Las Vegas First Responders.
Created a division of only Canadian teams, to avoid cross-border travel.
On Saturday, a team of 10 climbers became the first to reach the top of K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain, in the winter.
K2 straddles which two countries?
Bhutan
China
India
Nepal
Pakistan
Which of these products could cause some cybersecurity trouble for President Biden in the White House?
BlackBerry
Fitbit
Peloton
Xbox
iPhone
