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Current Events Review 4/25-4/29
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Review of CNN Current Events for the Week of 4/25-4/29
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1
The CNN character study this week uses what to provide therapy for children with special needs?
Horses
Dolphins
Bicycles
2
With different countries supporting each side in the Syrian conflict it had become what?
A Civil War
A World War
A Proxy War
3
This experimental aircraft is planning on flying around the world without using what?
Wings
Fuel
A Pilot
4
Officials in Ecuador estimate that how many people were killed by last week’s major earthquake?
650
100
2,000
5
Panama disease is threatening the global supply of what fruit?
Bananas
Orange
Apple
6
Earlier this month 15 people got stuck inside an elevator in what famous building in Chicago?
The Hancock Building
Water Tower Place
Willis Tower
7
North Korea launched a ballistic missile from where on Saturday?
A submarine
South Korea
A Ship
8
What Generation just became the largest generation in America?
Generation X
The Millennials
The Baby Boomers
9
The Mumps virus is spreading so quickly through what University?
Yale
UW Madison
Harvard
10
Two school districts in what State shut down due to the potential for tornadoes yesterday?
Oklahoma
Iowa
Kansas
11
Which Republican candidate won all five primary contests on Tuesday?
Bush
Cruz
Trump
12
What transportation station opened again in Brussels, yesterday after the terrorist attacks?
Buses
Trains
Planes
13
President Obama just announced that the U.S. would be sending troops to what country?
South Korea
Syria
Iraq
14
Lawmakers are pushing for what animal to become the first national mammal?
The Mountain Lion
The Bison
The Grey Wolf
15
NASA says that one of the biggest restraints to a mission to Mars is a simple lack of what?
Technology
Money
Desire
16
Within a decade or two nearly half the jobs in what country will be done by robots?
China
Japan
South Korea
17
The largest movable object ever constructed on land is being built in what country?
Ukraine
China
Russia
18
NOAA research vessels are on a mission to explore what part of the Pacific Ocean?
The Marianas Trench
The Sea Floor
The Surface
19
The estate of singer Prince has become more confusing because he did not have what?
A Will
Living Parents
A Child
20
Fifty people were killed when an airstrike hit a pediatric hospital in which Syrian city?
Baghdad
Damascus
Aleppo
21
Taiwan just hosted the racing championships for what type of transportation?
Chairs
Bobsleds
Cars
22
Approximately how many millennials are currently living in the U.S.?
75 million
12 million
150 million
23
What car company recently admitting to cheating on fuel economy tests?
Toyota
Ford
Mitsubishi
24
Approximately how many tornadoes occur in the U.S. each year?
700
1000
350
25
A sinkhole opened in what Country causing the center of a busy intersection to disappear?
Mexico
Brazil
China