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Current Events 1/14/22
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1
What team, from a neighboring state, defeated Alabama to win college football's national championship?
Miami
Ole Miss
Georgia
Florida State
2
Last week, President Biden endorsed altering the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass legislation about what issue?
Infrastructure
Climate change
Voting rights
Inflation
3
The Consumer Price Index rose 7% between Dec '20 and Dec '21. When was the last time the inflation index was that high?
1982
1946
2009
1964
4
Two of America’s deadliest residential fires in years occurred this month. In which cities did they take place?
Boston
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
5
New Biden administration guidelines will require private insurers to cover the cost of what?
At-home coronavirus tests
Cloth masks
Laser eye surgery
Air purifiers
6
Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, died after a distinguished career in Cambodia in detecting
what
with his nose?
Cancerous tumors
Buried gold
Landmines
Truffles
7
Sidney Poitier died last week at 94. In 1964, he won an Oscar for best actor for what film?
"Lillies of the Field"
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
"To Sir With Love"
"In the Heat of the Night"
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A 57-year-old Maryland resident recently became the first person to receive
what organ
from a genetically modified pig?
Eye
Brain
Ear
Heart
9
What country, which had kept its schools closed since March 2020, reopened them this week?
China
Portugal
Australia
Uganda
10
A movie soundtrack reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week. Which movie was it?
"Encanto"
"Spider-Man: No Way Home"
"West Side Story"
"Dune"
11
The U.S. Mint began shipping quarters that commemorate pioneering American women. Who is depicted on the first one?
Clara Barton
Maya Angelou
Harriet Tubman
Martha Washington