2018 Summer Current Events

What 70 year-old retail chain closed its last 800 stores and went out of business?

Remaining major candidates for Governor of Georgia 2018:

His album Scorpion broke a 54 year-old Beatles' record for most hits in the Billboard Top 10.

This thoroughbred became just the 13th in a hundred years to win horse racing's triple crown:

After losing his third championship to Golden State, which NBA "King" signed with LA?

A tourist boat off the coast of Hawaii was damaged how?

Nominated to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

In June, protests and policy changes surrounded which hot-button issue?

Embarrassed politicians Cheney, Palin, Jason Spencer, and others with "Who is America" pranks.

Seventeen people were killed in Branson, MO disaster in what kind of craft?

Top grossing summer movie June-July 2018:

With which world leader did President Trump NOT meet this summer?

Forbes magazine predicts she will surpass Mark Zuckerberg as youngest self-made billionaire.

Two high profile suicides reawakened awareness of depression and mental health.

Twelve soccer players were freed in a dramatic rescue from where?

According to Late Night, he became Trump's new "KGBFF" after summit in Helsinki.

Winners of Wimbledon women's and men's tennis championships 2018:

All but one of the following companies had to temporarily close when demand could not be met.

July 15 winners of soccer's World Cup AND in which country?

In "techonomics," one company surpassed a trillion in value while another lost $100 billion.