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Current Events from NYT From Sept 15 2020
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1
Which state has NOT been battling to contain mega-wildfires that have burned an unimaginable area of land in the West?
ALASKA
WASHINGTON
CALIFORNIA
OREGON
2
In what city did the Police Chief resign after the death of Daniel Prude?
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Rochester, New York
Portland, Oregon
Kenosha, Wisconsin
3
President Trump on Sept. 2 suggested that people in North Carolina do which of the following in the upcoming election?
vote twice
Try to vote the day after the election
Show up at polling places with weapons
Use fake IDs to identify themselves
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2X BONUS: This image is related to 1 of the news stories from the past week. Do you know where it is?
New York City
Chicago
San Francisco
Boston
5
On Sept. 1 what did Twitter say it would do to help clean up a feature that has been used for disinformation?
add more context to its trending topics
ban certain keywords from its hashtags
create a more rigorous authentication process for its blue verified badges
prohibit the use of non-copyrighted images
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Which of the articles below is a FAKE news story NOT published in the NY Times lase week?
“In a Big Box-Office Test, ‘Tenet’ Grosses $20 Million”
“‘Cuties’ Sparks a Firestorm, Again, After Its Netflix Release”
“‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ Is Set to End in 2021”
"Tyler Perry Expands Into Central Banking Syst. With Tyler Perry's Fed. Res
7
Why was Novak Djokovic the first No. 1 ranked tennis player to be disqualified from the US Open on Sept. 6th?
He threatened the umpire
He pushed his opponent during a changeover
He inadvertently struck a line judge with a ball hit in frustration
He cursed at a fan
8
The N.F.L. season began on Sept. 10. Which of these star quarterbacks is NOT on a new team?
Philip Rivers
Tom Brady
Cam Newton
Patrick Mohomes
9
Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” has drawn new waves of criticism and calls to boycott for _________.
satirizing the current Chinese government and its leader Xi Jinping
Filming in an area of China where Muslims have been put in internment camps
casting a white actor in a lead role
rewriting the end to the original film so that it is now a sad and tragic
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To stop the spread of COVID-19, what order did the Trump administration announce on Sept. 1 as recommended by the CDC?
To distribute free PPE at regional hospitals
To allow mail-in voting
To bar the evictions of renters for the rest of the year
To close all schools until Fall 2021
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On Sept. 8, a fast-moving fire destroyed most of Europe’s largest ________, on the Greek island of Lesbos.
refugee camp
military base
hospital
government embassy
