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September 8, 2023 Current Events
September 8, 2023 Current Events
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1
Attendees of which festival were stranded in a desert-turned-mud pit after two months' worth of rain fell in 24 hours?
Burning Man
Fluidity Festival
Splore
Electric Forest
2
President Joe Biden appeared in which city on Labor Day to speak to members of a sheet metal workers union?
Philadelphia
Nashville
New Orleans
San Francisco
3
Which role-playing video game, set in a galaxy of 1,000 planets, was released for Xbox and Windows on Wednesday?
Timescape
Starfield
Fullbright
Stargazer
4
Olaf Sholz is the leader of which European nation?
Germany
Liechtenstein
Austria
Switzerland
5
Elon Musk blamed which organization for costing X, the social networking site formerly known as Twitter, $22 billion?
European Union
The anti-defamation league
SAG-AFTRA
Major League Baseball
6
A Russian missile killed at least 17 people in Ukraine. What did the strike hit?
Outdoor market
School
Hotel
Military Base
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Which world leader tweeted a picture of himself with a black eye patch and bruises resulting from a fall while jogging?
Emmanuel Macron
Olaf Scholz
Justin Trudeau
Rishi Sunak
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Which of these countries is Ukraine?
C
B
D
A
9
Which band, whose first album came out nearly 60 years ago, announced this week that it was releasing a new record?
The Who
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
10
The police in Pennsylvania played what from a loudspeaker to convince an escaped murderer to surrender?
A message from his mom
A loud screeching noise
A message from a fellow inmate
His favorite childhood song
11
Rosalind Brewer, the sole Black woman leading an S&P 500 business, is stepping down as CEO of which company?
Walgreens
3M
Coca-Cola
Johnson & Johnson
12
Which American tennis star made it to the final in the U.S. Open for the first time this week?
Venus Williams
Naomi Osaka
Madison Keys
Coco Gauff
13
Two people were accused of driving an excavator through which ancient landmark (see photo) to create a shortcut?
Chichen Itza
The Wall of Palmyra
Great Wall of China
Hadrians Wall
14
Steve Harwell, from the band Smash Mouth, died this week. Their song, “All Star,” was featured in which movie?
Princess Diaries
Shrek
Oceans Eleven
Fast and Furious
15
Enrique Tarrio will serve 22 years in prison for leading which group to attack the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021?
Oath Keepers
Ku Klux Klan
Proud Boys
QAnon