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Current Events 5/11

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A picture of two presidents, Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden, and first ladies, Rosalynn Carter and Jill Biden, released last week led to many questions and jokes online. Which answer below best explains what happened?

a)

The Bidens were visiting the newly opened “President Carter Doll House Museum.”

b)

The photo was doctored by the White House staff to make the Bidens appear like giants to help pass the new president’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan in Congress.

c)

The photo was taken at a carnival outside Atlanta and is actually a reflection of a funhouse mirror.

d)

The use of a wide-angle lense makes objects closer to the camera appear to be much larger than objects that are even just a tiny bit farther away.

2.

Powerful explosions outside a high school in Afghanistan’s capital, ___________, on May 8 killed at least 50 people and wounded scores more, many of them teenage girls leaving class.

a)

Bagdad

b)

Islamabad

c)

Kabul

d)

Tehran

3.

The Food and Drug Administration on May 10 authorized use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for _____ years old in the United States, a crucial step in the nation’s steady recovery from the pandemic and a boon to tens of millions of American families eager for a return to normalcy.

a)

teenagers 16 to 19

b)

adolescents 12 to 15

c)

children 5 to 10

d)

infants up tp 2

4.

The operator of the largest __________between Texas and New York, which was shut down after a ransomware attack, declined on May 9 to say when it would reopen, raising concerns about a critical piece of the East Coast’s infrastructure.

a)

nuclear power plant

b)

petroleum pipeline

c)

railway line

d)

windmill farm

5.

Protests in Colombia against poverty and inequality over the past week have been met with a powerful crackdown by the government, which has left at least 24 people dead, most of them demonstrators, and at least 87 missing.

Which country shown above is Colombia?

a)

A

b)

B

c)

C

d)

D

6.

Facebook’s Oversight Board on May 5 _________the social network’s ban on former President Donald J. Trump.

a)

deeply critized

b)

upheld

c)

ended

d)

made permanent

7.

Bill and Melinda Gates, two of the richest people in the world, who reshaped philanthropy and public health with the fortune Mr. Gates made as a co-founder of Microsoft, said on May 3 that they were _________.

a)

acquiring their longtime rival Apple

b)

closing their philanthropic foundation

c)

divorcing after 27 years of marriage

d)

filing for bankruptcy

8.

Debris from a large Chinese rocket landed in the ______ early May 9, China’s space administration announced.

a)

Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda

b)

Antarctic Ocean

c)

Indian Ocean near the Maldives

d)

Pacific Ocean near Fiji

9.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants New York City to fully reopen on July 1, but no one will be able to __________until September.

a)

attend a Broadway show

b)

go to a baseball game

c)

tour One World Observatory

d)

visit the city’s art museums

10.

Three of the sports-related articles below were recently published in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?

a)

“Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Fails Drug Test”

b)

“One of the N.F.L.’s Fastest Is Among the Slowest on the Track”

c)

“Plan to Propose at Tigers Game Scuttled by 13-1 Loss”

d)

“Roger Federer on His New Gig: Swiss Tourism Spokesman”