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Current Events from the week of February 24th, 2015.
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87th annual Academy Awards, Julianne Moore won best actress for this 2014 film, her 1st win!
The Theory of Everything
Still Alice
Birdman
That Girl Be Trippin'
2
New terror threat from Al Shabaab, attack shopping malls, USA Europe, Canada, based in country?
Somalia
Yemen
Syria
Kenya
3
Superbug, resistant to antibiotics, responsible for 3 deaths, 1 in N. Carolina, the other two?
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
San Diego
4
Dictator of N Korea, sporting a new look, many hope he has a change in leadership style, too?
Chiang Kai Shek
Mao Zedong
Kim Jong Un
Kimbo Slice
5
Natural Gas leak, house explosion caught on video, 15 injured, this Ocean County town?
Toms River
Stafford Township
Seaside Heights
Manchester
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87th Academy Awards, Hollywood movies, Best Picture of 2014? Also won best director.
The Theory of Everything
Birdman
Fifty Shade of Grey
American Sniper
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Ed Routh is blamed PTSD, murder trial for killing
America Sniper
Chris Kyle, in this state?
South Carolina
Texas
Florida
California
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US Federal Reserve serves as the Gov't's bank, controls money supply, is led by this person?
Alan Greenspan
Ben Bernancke
Janet Yellen
Warren Buffet
9
Pres Obama vetoed pipeline, environmental risk not worth the job creation, oil from Canada?
Keystone Pipeline
Keansburg PIpeline
Transamerican Pipeline
Can-Am Pipeline
10
200K applied,200 chosen, final 24 for a one way trip to this planet in 2024, explore, colonize?
Mars
Venus
Uranus
Jupiter
11
Former NYC mayor, controversial remarks,questioned Pres Obama's patriotism, war on terror plan?
Mitt Romney
Rudy Giuliani
Michael Bloomberg
Chris Christie
12
Hollywood Academy Awards, Best Actor in the film
The Theory of Everything, this actor?
Andrew Craghan
Bradley Cooper
Eddie Redmayne
Michael Keaton
13
3 girls rescued from the icy waters of Raritan Bay by EMS, from the beach of Bayshore town?
Keansburg
Leonardo
Union Beach
Sandy Hook
14
Last Sunday, Daytona 500 was won by this driver, his 1st Daytona win in seven attempts?
Danicka Patrick
Jeff Gordon
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Joey Logano
15
Ebola continues to ravage W Africa, this country's students return to school, life normal?
Kenya
Liberia
Somalia
Sierra Leone
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Record-low frigid temperatures across the northern USA, this body of water frozen nearly solid?
Erie Canal
Hudson River
Great Lakes
Niagara Falls
