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CNN 10 and Wonderopolis 4/12

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

About ____ percent of the world population of sandhill cranes visit the central region of the Platte River each year.

a)

10

b)

55

c)

80

d)

98

2.

Which river does the Platte River join at Nebraska’s eastern border?

a)

Ohio

b)

Missouri

c)

Mississippi

d)

Rio Grande

3.

Which is NOT an activity cochlear implants can enable people to do?

a)

Hear others without lip reading

b)

Listen to music

c)

Communicate on the phone

d)

See up to a mile away

4.

Cochlear implants work by carrying sound to the _____________ and then the brain.

a)

Spinal cord

b)

Cochlear nerve

c)

Heart vessels

d)

Femur

5.

Which is a way that people need to care for their cochlear implants?

a)

Never take them off

b)

Protect them from water

c)

Recharge their batteries

d)

Both b and c

6.

Which is NOT one of the five main categories of statistics kept in basketball?

a)

Dribbles

b)

Points

c)

Rebounds

d)

Assists

7.

Who holds the career record for triple doubles in the NBA?

a)

Magic Johnson

b)

Michael Jordan

c)

Oscar Robertson

d)

Lebron James

8.

The first person in recorded basketball history to achieve a quintuple double was ______________.

a)

Chelsea Gray

b)

Tamika Catchings

c)

Brittney Griner

d)

Courtney Vandersloot

9.

Who declared April 11, 1954, the most boring day in history?

a)

Oprah

b)

Mark Zuckerberg

c)

Queen Elizabeth II

d)

William Tunstall-Pedoe

10.

On April 18, 1930, the BBC evening news anchor stated, “________________.”

a)

There is too much to report

b)

There is no news

c)

I will play the piano now

d)

I forgot to write my news report

11.

Which search engine was used to find the most boring day in the 20th century?

a)

True Knowledge

b)

Google

c)

Bing

d)

Ask Jeeves

12.

Military analysts say China has been "flexing its military might" through naval exercises near what island, which lies about 100 miles east of the Chinese mainland?

a)

Tokyo

b)

Singapore

c)

Taiwan

d)

Hong Kong

13.

This week, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that by September 11, America will have withdrawn most of its troops from what south Asian country?

a)

Iraq

b)

Afghanistan

c)

Iran

d)

Pakistan

14.

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000-year-old city, the largest of its kind ever found in what ancient nation?

a)

China

b)

Egypt

c)

Tunisia

d)

Israel

15.

On Thursday, the U.S. government announced new sanctions against what country, which says it will respond in the days ahead?

a)

China

b)

Japan

c)

North Korea

d)

Russia

16.

At a tourist destination in northern China, authorities recently installed what they say is the first traffic signal related to crossings by what animal?

a)

Panda

b)

Deer

c)

Camel

d)

Cow

17.

Which biodome covers over 30 acres and holds three different biomes?

a)

Burger's Zoo

b)

San Diego Zoo

c)

Al's Big Biodome

d)

The Eden Project

18.

Between 1991 and 1993, a team of scientists lived inside _______________ to study the ecosystems there.

a)

Biosphere 2

b)

Mars

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Antarctica