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Week 28 - News of the Week + Recap
Week 28 - News of the Week + Recap
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1
Which of the following regions does NOT contain minerals granted to the US in a recent agreement with Ukraine?
Zakarpattia (Carpathians)
Pripyat Basin (Gomel Oblast)
Dnieper Basin
Donetsk
2
In what part of South Asia was the Vijayanagara Empire established in the fourteenth century CE?
in the area of modern Pakistan and Afghanistan
on the Deccan Plateau in southern India
north of the Bay of Bengal
in the Ganges floodplain in northern India
3
The Industrial Revolution began in the textile industry in what country in the late eighteenth century?
England
the United States
Russia
France
4
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was formerly a colony of what European nation?
France
Belgium
Great Britain
Germany
5
What Southeast Asian nation became the first independent country of the 21st century in 2002?
East Timor
Brunei
Indonesia
Singapore
6
All of these are landmarks in Pyongyang EXCEPT which of the following?
the Arch of Reunification
Heaven Lake and the birthplace of Kim Jong-il
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun
Juche Tower
7
Pierbattista Pizzaballa, a contender for the papacy, represents which city, which recently experienced wildfires?
Nicosia
Jerusalem
Beirut
Eilat
8
Black smoke billowed from the chimney of which church, signaling that Pope Francis' successor had not yet been decided?
Basilica of San Giovanni
Sistine Chapel
St. Basil's Cathedral
St. Peter's Basilica
9
President Trump ordered the reopening of which island prison, lying across the Golden Gate from the Gulf of Farallones?
Alcatraz
San Quentin
Rikers Island
Robben Island
10
Nationalist George Simion won nearly every county, with the exception of those inhabited by which minority ethnic group?
Roma
Magyars
Serbs
Ukrainians
11
Which of these sites in modern-day Turkey is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site in the world?
Hallstatt
Hisarlik
Ephesus
Çatalhöyük
12
Which of the following was NOT recently struck by India as part of Operation Sindoor?
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Azad Kashmir
Balochistan
Muzaffarabad
13
Which animal, typically only found in Lake Xochimilco in the Anáhuac, has recently been reintroduced to wetland areas?
Tiger Salamander
Axolotl
Necturus (Waterdog)
Baiji Dolphin
14
Cahokia Mounds is a major archaeological site of what pre-Columbian Native American culture?
Monongahela
La Jolla
Mississipian
Oneonta
15
What was the common name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes until its name was officially changed in 1929?
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Transylvania