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WorksheetsJEM News B Part 2
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Spain is the world's biggest producer of this product, accounting for more than two-fifths of the global supply last year. Greece, Italy, and Portugal are also major producers. A drought this summer threatened the supply of what?
sunflower oil
rapeseed
corn
olive oil
Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for what?
knowingly overcharging officials for stays in Trump hotel properties
contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena related to the Jan. 6th, 2021 Capitol riot
lying under oath, saying the Uvalde school shooting was a hoax
secretly hiding classified documents in unsecure locations
What is the goal of NASA's Artemis program?
to colonize Mars and planets beyond
to detect life in outer space
to place astronauts on the lunar surface and to develop an ongoing presence there
to establish a permanent station in high Earth orbit
A power outage in Central North Carolina ended late Dec. 7th when service was restored to the last of some 45,000 customers who were affected. What caused the outage?
a squirrel
ice, part of a winter storm that blanketed the East Coast
unreasonably high demand
gunfire that damaged two substations
According to a U.S. Treasury report released in early October, the nation's gross national debt was surpassed by how much?
$8.507 million
$17 billion
$754 billion
$31.12 trillion
The 118th Congress convened on Jan. 3rd and, on the first day as is tradition, members nominated colleagues as a Speaker of the House. Who one on that day?
Kevin McCarthy
Nancy Pelosi
Hakeem Jeffries
No One
MEYER Q: How many rounds of votes did it take to choose Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker of the House in 2023?
3
5
10
15
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation declared a Tier 2 water shortage for which river, reducing the amount of water provided to users in seven state, including Arizona, which will lose about 20% of its yearly allocation of river water?
Rio Grande
Mississippi
Colorado
Jordan
The U.S. Defense spending bill authorized increased security cooperation in the region. In response, China's military sent 71 planes and 7 ships in a display of force directed at what self-ruled island that China claims is its own territory?
Taiwan
Guam
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Following the lead of several other GOP governors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said banning a social media platform run by the Chinese company ByteDance would protect state information from the Chinese Communist Party. What social media platform?
Vine
TikTok
YouTube
MEYER Q: The administration of Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is rejecting a new Advanced Placement course for high school students, because it is “inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value.” Which course is this?
AP African American Studies
AP World History: Modern
AP Environmental Science
AP Chinese Language
Even if humans stopped emitting planet-warming greenhouse gases today, scientists in the journal of Nature Climate Change said Earth's oceans are already locked into nearly 10.8 inches of sea-level rise from a melting ice sheet. Where?
Siberia
Antarctica
Alaska
Greenland
A record-breaking drought has caused some rivers in China - including parts of the world's third largest river - to dry up, affecting hydropower, halting shipping, and forcing major companies to suspend operation. What river?
Yangtze River
Amazon River
Yenisei River
Yellow River
Which country's team became the first African nation to ever make it to the World Cup semi-finals?
Egypt
Morocco
South Africa
Senegal
MEYER Q: Which team won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, beating the other team on penalty kicks?
Morocco
Argentina
France
Brazil
MEYER Q: On January 22, 2023, the U.S. Postal Service raised the price of a stamp to mail a standard letter again. What is the new price?
50 cents
60 cents
56 cents
63 cents
Passed in a bipartisan manner by Congress in December, the Respect for Marriage Act requires states to take what action?
to require married couples to agree before having an abortion
to require churches to perform marriages before they will be legally recognized
to pass legislation determining whether they will recognize same-sex marriages in that state
to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states
This is a composite picture of Jupiter from three filters and alignment due to the planet's rotation. This image was taken with what?
the James Webb Space Telescope, launched in 2021
telescopes at the University of Texas McDonald Observatory
the Hubble Space telescope, launched in 1990
the Arecibo Observatory Telescope in PuertoRico
Russia annexed four regions of Ukraine in September, just days after voters supposedly approved Moscow-managed "referendums" that Ukrainian and western officials denounced as illegal, forced, and rigged. Which of the following was NOT one of these regions?
Donetsk
Luhansk
Kherson
Crimea
Amid record high inflation, Social Security beneficiaries will get an increase to their benefits in 2023, the highest increase in 40 years. How much?
3.7%
8.7%
19.2%
33.1%
What did Title 42, a law applied 2.5 million times since 2020, allow?
migrants to be expelled on public health reasons
asylum seekers from oil-producing countries to gain automatic admission in the U.S.
workers with certain high-level skills to gain entry into the U.S.
some individuals with unlawful presence in the U.S. to receive a renewable 2 year allowance to stay
Experts last fall warned that a "tripledemic" was due to hit the U.S. This triple threat of viral threats included all of the following EXCEPT
smallpox
respiratory syncytial virus
influenza
COVID-19
In accordance with President Joe Biden's memorandum of December 15, 2022, the National Archives posted 13,173 documents containing newly released information related to what?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The insurrection of the capital on January 6, 2021
the assassination of U.S. President JFK
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
