Smarter News Quiz: A Football, a Goofball and a Drink to Tesla
The leader of which country adversarial to the U.S. mocked America’s presidential election in a televised address?
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Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei jabbed at President Donald Trump for claiming America’s elections are rife with fraud while he’s the sitting president.
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The United Arab Emirates announced a relaxation of Islamic laws on which of the following subjects?
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The UAE plans to decriminalize “actions that don’t harm others.” That will end judicial punishments for adults who live together without first being wed.
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Five hundred people were forced to evacuate from their mountainside homes in what country because of concerns that its most active volcano could erupt at any time?
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Volcanic activity at Mount Merapi on the island of Java has been steadily increasing since June. About 250,000 people live within six miles of the mountain.
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Instead of booking a luxury Four Seasons Hotel for a press conference, Donald Trump’s campaign team held it at which business?
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Donald Trump did not attend the press briefing outside a landscaping business; it quickly trended on Twitter, making his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his son Eric objects of ridicule.
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Elon Musk’s electric car company finally released what kind of Tesla-branded liquor?
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Tesla Tequila, which Musk first announced April 1, costs $250 a bottle—making it no joke for April Fool’s Day skeptics.
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Which NBC “Today” personality revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis during the show?
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Roker, 66, said he wanted to share his cancer journey with the world to urge other at-risk men to get regular checkups—especially black men, who have a 1 in 7 chance of testing positive.
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Sheriff’s deputies had to remove what wild animal from a Florida elementary school’s playground?
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Although Everglades Elementary School’s mascot is an alligator, the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Office hauled away the 4-1/2 foot-long reptile and named it “Everglades” before releasing it into its natural habitat.
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What NFL record did the Baltimore Ravens set in their 24–10 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Nov. 8?
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With 31 straight 20-point games, QB Lamar Jackson and the Ravens broke the previous record set by Peyton Manning’s Denver Broncos in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 seasons.
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Jim Carrey incorporated which of his past movie characters during a Joe Biden victory-themed comedy sketch on “Saturday Night Live”?
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Carrey channeled his famous pet detective character, mocking President Donald Trump as a “Loooooo-Zerrrrr.”
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Which head of state was absent from the list of South American leaders who formally congratulated Joe Biden?
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Bolsonaro, known as “the Trump of the Tropics,” shares with Trump a disdain for Covid-19 masks. His son Eduardo, a Brazilian congressman, tweeted in defense of the U.S. president after Election Day.