Smarter News Quiz: Warsaw Protests, Kanye West and a Metro Miracle
Citizens of which country found themselves in a new four-week partial lockdown because of Covid-19?
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Austria’s national response to the global pandemic began on November 3. Like other European nations, it has seen a second wave of widespread infections.
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Tens of thousands of Poles protested in the streets of Warsaw, angered by what kind of court ruling?
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The demonstrations, the most intense since the fall of communism, led Poland’s right-wing government to delay publication of the constitutional court ruling, keeping it from taking effect.
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When a metro train in the Netherlands overshot a rail station, its front passenger car was stopped from plummeting 33 feet into a body of water when it came to rest on what?
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No one was hurt because the train car was empty. It derailed at the De Akkers station in Spijkenisse, on the outskirts of Rotterdam.
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Mississippians voted on Election Day to replace their 126-year-old state flag, abolishing the Confederate Battle Cross in favor of what image?
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Mississippi had been the last state to feature the “Stars and Bars” on its official flag. The state’s very first flag, adopted in 1861, pictured a magnolia tree. The new design also includes the motto “In God We Trust.”
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Which university canceled its Division I football team’s second game in a row?
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Covid-19 precautions scuttled the scheduled contest between the Wisconsin badgers and the Purdue boilermakers, a week after the Wisconsin–Nebraska game was scrapped.
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Which state’s voters one-upped the national marijuana legalization trend by decriminalizing the possession of hard drugs?
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Nearly 6 in 10 Oregon voters decided people arrested for possession of controlled substances like heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine should get medical treatment instead of jail sentences.
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What is the name of the hurricane that produced deadly floods in Central America?
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The slow-moving storm brought 40 inches of rain to Belize, Guatemala and other Central American countries. It is expected to make landfall in Cuba and could also clobber south Florida.
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To limit the spread of the coronavirus, Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen condemned 15 million of which animals to death?
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Danish fur farmers will exterminate the animals following the revelation that a mutated version of the coronavirus had jumped species to humans.
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Of the 12 states where Kayne West was on the ballot as a presidential candidate this week, where did the rapper receive the most votes?
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West received about 60,000 votes for president overall, with 10,216 coming in the Volunteer State.
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Which television network attracted Republicans’ anger when it announced early on Election Night that Joe Biden had won the state of Arizona?
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President Trump reportedly called Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch to demand his network walk back its projection and make Arizona a toss-up again. Instead, the networks top election analyst came on the air to declare: “We’re not wrong.”
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