WorksheetsCurrent Events Quiz #5
Total questions: 6
Worksheet time: 3mins
Last Friday, September 30th, Vladimir Putin signed an accord to annex the Ukrainian regions in which a referendum was held last week. Which four regions were included?
Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, & Zaporizhzhia
Izium, Transnistria, Chisinau, & Mariupol
South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Chechnya, & Dagestan
Kiev, Oddessa, Dnieper, & Lviv
Over the weekend and through Tuesday, October 4th, Ukrainian forces advanced into the Russian-held regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson in Ukraine, including retaking the strategic village of _______. (# of blanks irrelevant to # of letters in answers)
Lyman
Izium
Mariupol
Kiev
What development occurred this week in the Elon Musk-Twitter controversy?
Twitter agreed to a negotiation attempt by Musk, allowing him to purchase the company at its actual value, $32bn
Opening statements were heard in the Delaware District Court from Musk and Twitter's attorneys
Musk sent a letter to Twitter in which he agreed to honor the terms of the original deal, buying the company for $44bn
Musk agreed to a walk-away deal, paying $1bn to Twitter in breach of contract and ending the purchase
On Monday, October 3, North Korea launched a missile over what country?
Japan
The U.S. (Pacific island of Guam)
South Korea
Russia
In the wake of Hurricane Ian’s landfall in Florida, officials in Lee County, the hardest hit region of the state, have received criticism for what reason?
Ordering evacuation orders less than 24 hours before the hurricane made landfall.
Refusing federal FEMA assistance and only accepting state funding because of political disagreements with Biden
Forcing the flow of electricity and water services to homes despite dangerous damage to companies' infrastructure
Calling Ian the most damaging hurricane in U.S., leading to public outcry in memory of Hurricane Katrina
What demographic has received a considerable amount of publicity in the last week for taking part in demonstrations against Iranian leadership?
Iranian schoolgirls & students
Iranian elderly women
American Muslim clerics
Afghani leadership (Sunni Muslim, in contrast to Iran's Shiite Muslim majority)
