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Current Events Quiz Friday October 13, 2023
Current Events Quiz Friday October 13, 2023
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1
Who announced their intention to drop out of the Democratic Party and run for president as an independent?
Kyrsten Sinema
Kanye WestWrong!
Cornel West
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
2
Fat Bear Week '23 began in 2014.
People vote for fattest bear. Who wn this year?
480 Otis
128 Grazer
32 Chunk
435 Holly
3
Simone Biles earned 4 more titles at the World Gymnastics Championships including which individual event?
floor
beam
uneven bars
vault
4
The Texas Rangers locked down a spot in the American League Championship Series. Who will they be playing against?
Baltimore Orioles
Minnesota Twins
Houston Astros
Tampa Bay Rays
5
What cult favorite is being discontinued?
the 12-foot Home Depot skeleton
Raspberry Rally Girl Scout cookies
COVID vaccine cards
all of them
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People spotted pests in restaurants and trains - French health minister says there's “no reason for widespread panic."
Pests = Lice
Pests = Bedbugs
Pests = Cockroaches
Pests = Rats
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, whose work involved what?
How bodies sense temperature and touch
The discovery of hepatitis C
mRNA techniques used in Covid vaccines
A novel therapy against malaria
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More than 75,000 employees of what health care system went on strike this week?
Trinity Health
UnitedHealth Group
Kaiser Permanente
Mayo Clinic
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Embattled New York Rep. George Santos was indicted on what new federal charges on Tuesday in a superseding indictment?
conspiracy
credit card fraud
wire fraud
aggravated identity theft
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Donald Trump went on trial last week in Manhattan related to a lawsuit brought last year by NY AG accusing him of what?
Failing to pay his taxes
Paying off former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s speeding tickets as a political favor
Abandoning a real estate project in 1991, costing the state millions
Fraudulently inflating the value of his assets
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Donald Trump claimed which magazine is in cahoots with NY AG Letitia James is part of the "election interference scam"?
The Economist
TV Guide
Kiplinger
Forbes
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A car rammed into the lobby of the Chinese consulate in which city on Monday, ending with police shooting the driver?
Chicago
Vancouver
San Francisco
Seattle
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy was removed from the House speakership. When was the last time a House speaker was voted out?
2001
NEVER> This is the first time this has happened.
1852
1910