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Worksheets2025 Summer News: Part 2
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
According to The Times, which generation known for JNCO Jeans, big hair, wired headphones and “Sex and the City” is cool again?
Baby Boomers
The Silent Generation
In July, Sean Combs, also known as Diddy, was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Mr. Combs is best known as what?
A Hollywood executive
A hip-hop mogul
A real estate developer
In July, Congress narrowly passed President Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill.
Which of the following is NOT one of the legislation’s major provisions?
The bill extends tax cuts enacted in 2017 that were scheduled to expire.
The bill increases funding for defense and border security.
The bill will lower the national debt.
Rayyan Arkan Dikha, an 11-year-old boy who lives in Indonesia, went viral in July and helped popularize which phrase?
Aura farming
Boat flexing
Rizz maxxing
Catastrophic floods struck which state over the July 4 holiday weekend, killing at least 135 people, including dozens of children from a summer camp?
Florida
Louisiana
Texas
In July, Nvidia became the first public company to be worth $4 trillion. It is the world’s leading provider of what?
Computer chips for artificial intelligence
Electric car batteries
Smartphone components
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Transportation Security Administration is letting airline travelers do what at security checkpoints?
Bring full water bottles
Keep their shoes on
Wear small backpacks
What did the U.K. announce that it would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to do?
Drink alcohol
Join the military
Vote
The Times published the above graph in July. What does it show?
After being declared eradicated two decades earlier, confirmed measles cases in America have hit a 25-year high.
Measles outbreaks aren't anything to worry about.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced that measles is no longer a problem in the U.S.
In July, what did more than 100 aid agencies and rights groups, including Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, warn was spreading across Gaza?
Flooding
Mass starvation
Mumps
The entertainment industry and comedy world were shocked when CBS announced on July 17 that it was canceling “The Late Show,” ending the late-night talk franchise that has existed for more than three decades.
Who is the show’s current host?
David Letterman
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert
Why were wily red foxes, like the one pictured above, in the news this July?
A family of foxes have moved into an elementary school in New Jersey to the delight of students.
Swiper the Fox is starring in the new live-action “Dora the Explorer” movie.
At least one red fox has been stealing campers' shoes at Grand Teton National Park this summer.
This summer, some of Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters, including Republican members of Congress and conservative media figures, ripped into his administration for its backpedaling on what issue?
The Epstein files
Climate change
The border wall
