News quiz

Test your knowledge of current events from the week of Nov. 8

1. One of the pharmaceutical companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine announced that its version has proved

90% effective in a trial. Which drug maker is it?

A. Moderna.

B. Bayer.

C. Astra Zeneca.

D. Pfizer.

2. The Supreme People’s Assembly in North Korea adopted a new law that prohibits what?

A. COVID vaccine trials.

B. Smoking in public places.

C. Adoption of non-Korean children.

D. Alcohol consumption.

3. After two weeks of protests rivaling the size of those when communism collapsed in 1989, Poland leaders decided to do what?

A. Call for a special election to replace its president.

B. Prohibit military intervention after its upcoming election.

C. Delay a near-total ban on abortion.

D. Fire the new education minister.

4. A divided Supreme Court in Washington madea ruling that affects all the farmworkers in the state. What was the ruling?

A. Mandated aminimum

wage of $20 per hour.

B. They should receive subsidies for COVID-related absences fromwork.

C. They should be allowed to form a union.

D. They should receive overtime pay when working more than 40 hours aweek.

5. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have grown over an unlikely issue. What is it?

A. The origin of borscht.

B. The next cosmonaut to go to the International Space Station.

C. Where a statue honoring Vladimir Putin should be placed.

D. Wearing of masks during the COVID pandemic.

6. Which of these singers or bands was not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2020?

A. Everly Brothers.

B. Doobie Brothers.

C. Whitney Houston.

D. Nine Inch Nails.

7. What state made a major shift in its effort to fight the surge in coronavirus cases by instituting a statewide mask mandate, becoming the 34th to do so?

A. Louisiana.

B. Arizona.

C. Mississippi.

D. Utah.

8. What was Donald Trump doing when the winner of the 2020 presidential race was projected?

A. In a Coronavirus Task Force briefing.

B. In an election results briefing with campaign staff.

C. Golfing.

D. Visiting Walter Reed Hospital.

9. A member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet tested positive for COVID-19. Who was it?

A. Elisabeth DeVos, Secretary of Education.

B. Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

C. Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services.

D. David Bernhardt, Secretary of the Interior.

10. The runoff elections for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia will take place when?

A. November.

B. December.

C. January, before the presidential inauguration.

D. After the presidential inauguration.

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CZAREKSOKOLOWSKI/AP Protesters block a street outside the Education Ministry inWarsaw, Poland, during another in awave ofweeks of anti-government protests in the nation.