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Currents Events 02/05/21

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Vermont Senator ..?.. will preside over the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump.

a)

Bernie Sanders

b)

Jeanne Shaheen

c)

Pat Leahy

d)

Maggie Hassan

2.

A third coronavirus vaccine, made by ..?.., which only requires one shot, could be approved soon.

a)

Johnson & Johnson

b)

Bayer

c)

Eli Lilly

d)

Novartis

3.

The Biden administration has temporarily frozen arms sales to ..?.., and fighter jets to the UAE, pending a review.

a)

Israel

b)

Qatar

c)

Syria

d)

Saudi Arabia

4.

The stock of retail chain ..?.. soared after a group of online traders on Reddit encouraged people to buy it.

a)

Blockbuster Video

b)

Home Depot

c)

Best Buy

d)

GameStop

5.

..?.., the de facto leader of Myanmar, was arrested in an apparent military coup.

a)

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

b)

Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh

c)

Aung San Suu Kyi

d)

Yingluck Shinawatra

6.

Pioneering actress ..?.. who starred in “Sounder” and “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” died at age 96, two days after her memoir was published.

a)

Ruby Dee

b)

Angela Bassett

c)

Cicely Tyson

d)

Lena Horne

7.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of ..?.. was given a seat on the House education committee despite her claims that many school mass shootings were fake.

a)

Florida

b)

Georgia

c)

Texas

d)

Massachusetts

8.

Chicago officials granted landmark status to the home of ..?.., the Black 14-year-old who was lynched 66 years ago on a visit to Mississippi.

a)

Emmett Till

b)

Lamar Smith

c)

Mack Charles Parker

d)

Willie Edwards Jr.

9.

Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman, who played the role of ..?.. Lindstrom on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died at age 94.

a)

Cybill

b)

Rhoda

c)

Phyllis

d)

Susan

10.

The Biden administration said it would try to speed up the process of putting ..?.. on the $20 bill

a)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Shirley Chisholm

d)

Harriet Tubman