WorksheetsWeekly News Quiz #5
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
As of Thursday, how many people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded, according to the United Nations?
10,000
70,000
450,000
1 million
20 million
This week, Russian forces bombarded residential areas in the northeastern city of , Ukraine’s second-largest city and a center of national culture. Fill in the blank.
Kharkiv
Kyiv
Minsk
Odessa
Warsaw
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly this week to condemn Russia’s invasion. Which two countries were among those that abstained?
Afghanistan
Britain
China
India
Switzerland
President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Which of them wore a mask during the speech?
Biden
Harris
Pelosi
All three of them
None of them
Representatives from 175 nations this week agreed to write a treaty to restrict the proliferation of what?
Genetically modified wheat
Handguns
Plastics
Sea glass
Solar panels
Which state kicked off the 2022 midterms with primary elections on Tuesday?
Iowa
Nevada
Ohio
Puerto Rico
Texas
President Biden named Ketanji Brown Jackson as his choice to replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. Which three of the following are true?
She once clerked for Justice Breyer
She worked as a federal public defender on behalf of Guantánamo Bay detainees
She worked as a prosecutor targeting white-collar criminals
She would be the first woman of color on the Supreme Court
Three Senate Republicans voted to confirm her as a federal circuit judge
Two weeks after catching fire, a 650-foot ship, the Felicity Ace, sank this week in the Atlantic Ocean. What was it carrying?
A piano once owned by Beethoven
Hundreds of pallets of dried corn
Millions of plastic toy boats
Thousands of luxury cars
Two Boeing 737s
Rob Manfred, the M.L.B. commissioner, held a news conference this week to announce what?
Games will now be capped at two hours.
Minor league players will earn guaranteed $1 million salaries.
The first several games of the year will be canceled.
The pitching mound will be moved back nine inches.
Two more teams will be added for the 2023 season.
Who plays Catwoman in “The Batman,” the new superhero film in theaters this week?
Anne Hathaway
Halle Berry
Michelle Pfeiffer
Zendaya
Zoë Kravitz
In a paper published this week, three researchers made what claim about the Tyrannosaurus rex?
Baby T. rexes glowed in the dark.
Female T. rexes could fly.
T. rex should be split into three separate species.
T. rexes are still alive, but they should be considered endangered.
Their skeletons are unsafe to display in museums.
