| {"question_id": "20230120_0", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Temperatures in the world’s coldest city plunged to -80 degrees Fahrenheit this week. Which city holds the title of the coldest?", "choices": ["Yakutsk, Russia", "Anchorage, Alaska", "Yellowknife, Canada", "Duluth, Minnesota"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "The coldest city in the world is <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/yakutsk-russia-cold-snap-freeze-intl-hnk/index.html\">Yakutsk, Russia</a>. Residents say they still manage to get outside for work and errands, even though temperatures have plunged to an unimaginable -80.9 degrees Fahrenheit."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_1", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which national holiday was celebrated this week?", "choices": ["Columbus Day", "Labor Day", "Martin Luther King Jr. Day", "Veterans Day"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Monday was <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/15/us/mlk-i-have-a-dream-speech-blake-cec/index.html\">Martin Luther King Jr. Day</a>, a national holiday celebrating the birthday of the civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_2", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "A deadly plane crash recently occurred in which South Asian country?", "choices": ["Sri Lanka", "Nepal", "Bhutan", "India"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "Yeti Airlines flight 691 crashed in Nepal on January 15. There were 72 people on board, including four crew members, according to an airline spokesperson. With all but one body recovered, the crash marks the <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/asia/nepal-plane-crash-yeti-airlines-video-intl-hnk/index.html\">country’s deadliest air disaster</a> in more than 30 years."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_3", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which major sports tournament is currently underway?", "choices": ["Australian Open", "Wimbledon", "FIFA World Cup", "Tour de France"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "Tennis greats from around the world are facing off at the <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/tennis/rafael-nadal-australian-open-injuries-spt-intl/index.html\">Australian Open</a>. In a major upset this week, 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal was knocked out in the second round by American Mackenzie McDonald."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_4", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "How many US states have taken action to restrict TikTok on government devices?", "choices": ["3", "10", "16", "31"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "A total of 31 states have <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/tech/tiktok-state-restrictions/index.html\">restricted TikTok</a> on government devices. The accelerating backlash from both Republican and Democratic governors comes amid renewed security concerns about how the platform handles user data and fears that it could find its way to the Chinese government."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_5", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which major tech company announced 10,000 job cuts this week?", "choices": ["Apple", "Twitter", "Microsoft", "Uber"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Microsoft is the latest tech company to <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/tech/microsoft-layoffs/index.html\">reduce staff</a> because of growing economic uncertainty. The job cuts represent about 5% of the company’s total workforce, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_6", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which professional sports team was invited to the White House this week?", "choices": ["Golden State Warriors", "Boston Celtics", "Los Angeles Rams", "Buffalo Bills"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "President Joe Biden <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/biden-golden-state-warriors-white-house/index.html\">welcome</a><a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/biden-golden-state-warriors-white-house/index.html\">d</a> <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/biden-golden-state-warriors-white-house/index.html\">the Golden State Warriors</a> back to the White House on Tuesday to celebrate their 2022 NBA championship."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_7", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which country’s prime minister unexpectedly announced that she will resign within weeks?", "choices": ["Norway", "Finland", "New Zealand", "Iceland"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "New Zealand Prime Minister <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/asia/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-not-seeking-reelection-intl-hnk/index.html\">Jacinda Ardern</a> announced that she will resign within weeks, saying she doesn’t believe she has the energy to seek reelection in the October polls."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_8", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which US state’s governor is pushing to permanently ban coronavirus vaccine mandates?", "choices": ["Florida", "Alabama", "Texas", "Georgia"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "Amid rising Covid-19 cases across the US, <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/18/politics/desantis-covid-policy-florida/index.html\">Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis</a> is pushing to permanently ban coronavirus vaccine and face mask mandates in his state. DeSantis, a vocal Covid-19 skeptic, also wants to prevent doctors from losing their medical licenses if they stake out positions that contradict medical consensus."} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_9", "question_date": "2023/01/19", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/01/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-january-19-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which superstar singer announced a new world tour this week?", "choices": ["Celine Dion", "Madonna", "Rihanna", "Elton John"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "Madonna fans were overjoyed about <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/entertainment/madonna-celebration-tour/index.html\">her new tour announcement</a> this week, which according to her site, <a href=\"https://www.madonna.com/news/title/madonna-announces-the-celebration-tour\"></a>“will take us on Madonna’s artistic journey through four decades and pays respect to the city of New York where her career in music began.”"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_10", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "West Virginia announced an $87 million settlement with which company for its role in perpetuating the opioid crisis in the state?", "choices": ["Rite Aid", "Walgreens", "Costco", "CVS"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_11", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "Which tech company confirmed this week that it was laying off 10,000 of its employees?", "choices": ["Meta", "Apple", "Amazon", "Microsoft"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_12", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "Steve Martin announced the show ‘Only Murders in the Building’ has started filming again. Which actor is a new addition this upcoming season?", "choices": ["Meryl Streep", "Lupita Nyong'o", "Jenna Ortega", "Kate Hudson"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_13", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "All of these stars will co-chair this year’s Met Gala with Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, except:", "choices": ["Dua Lipa", "Michaela Coel", "Roger Federer", "Leslie Odom Jr."], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_14", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "China’s birth rate declined for the first time in decades in 2022. It has been the world’s most populous nation since at least:", "choices": ["1950", "1964", "1978", "1990"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_15", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "This four-time WNBA champion stepped away from basketball in 2018, but finally made her retirement official this week on \"Good Morning America.\"", "choices": ["Diana Taurasi", "Seimone Augustus", "Maya Moore", "Elena Delle Donne"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_16", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "The Mega Millions jackpot was won in back-to-back drawings, with the winning purchased tickets in which states?", "choices": ["Michigan and New Jersey", "California and Florida", "Maine and New York", "Nevada and Texas"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_17", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "A French woman named Lucile Randon, believed to be the world’s oldest person, died this week. What age was she?", "choices": ["99", "102", "114", "118"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_18", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "Brendan Fraser won the Critics Choice award for best actor this past weekend. He has starred in all of these movies except:", "choices": ["The Whale'", "Notting Hill'", "Monkeybone'", "The Scout'"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_19", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-01-20/", "question_sentence": "Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested Monday after how many years on the run?", "choices": ["20", "30", "35", "40"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_20", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "A newly unveiled $10m sculpture in Boston honouring Martin Luther King Jr. was created by which US artist?", "choices": ["Hank Willis Thomas", "Paige Bradley", "Paul McCarthy", "Jennifer Holzer"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "The sculpture, called The Embrace, was inspired by a photo of the civil rights activist hugging his wife, Coretta Scott King, but has been criticised as ‘obscene’ and ‘pornographic looking’"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_21", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "The chair of the Food Standards Agency warned this week that doing what was as harmful to health as passive smoking?", "choices": ["Buying alcoholic drinks in rounds", "Taking cake to work", "Failing to clean shared keyboards", "Adding sugar to tea and coffee"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "Professor Susan Jebb warned against tempting colleagues with sweet treats, telling The Times that people ‘undervalue’ the impact of their environment on their eating choices"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_22", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Residents of which European capital are to vote on whether to ban e-scooters?", "choices": ["Madrid", "London", "Paris", "Berlin"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Scheduled for 2 April, the public referendum follows thousands of crashes, some fatal, involving the electric vehicles in the French capital"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_23", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Locals in the Spanish village San Bartolome de Pinares honour Saint Anthony every 16 January by doing what?", "choices": ["Throwing tomatoes at children", "Riding horses through flames", "Jumping over babies", "Climbing trees naked"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "The tradition of riding horses through a string of bonfires in the village’s streets is a centuries-old purification ritual to ward off sickness"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_24", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Which woodland creatures have returned to Hampshire for the first time in 400 years?", "choices": ["Wolves", "Lynx", "Bears", "Beavers"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "Beavers were hunted to extinction in England in the 16th century. But now a pair named Chompy and Hazel have been released into an enclosure at Ewhurst Park near Basingstoke, as part of a rewilding project"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_25", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "The UK government is racing to replace thousands of EU laws that will lapse when?", "choices": ["1 September 2023", "30 November 2023", "31 December 2023", "1 February 2024"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Rishi Sunak this week doubled down on the end-of-year deadline to repeal or replace around 4,000 pieces of legislation that were retained after Britain quit the bloc"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_26", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Which UK religious group has reported a 200% increase in membership in the last five years?", "choices": ["The Wiccan Alliance", "Global Order of Satan", "Church of Scientology Advanced Organisation", "Spiritualists' National Union"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "Chaplain Leopold of the Global Order of Satan UK told The Sunday Telegraph that young people were embracing alternatives to ‘outdated’ and ‘dogmatic’ traditional religions"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_27", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Tory MPs have reportedly been told not to use which Boris Johnson-era slogan?", "choices": ["Build Back Better", "Global Britain", "Get Brexit Done", "Levelling up"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "Conservative MPs in key marginal seats told The Times they were being told to ditch the slogan in favour of alternatives because ‘no one knows what it means’"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_28", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Which pop icon will embark on her 40th anniversary tour this year?", "choices": ["Madonna", "Annie Lennox", "Grace Jones", "Cyndi Lauper"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "Marking the 40th anniversary of her breakout single Holiday, The Celebration Tour will start in Vancouver, in July, and finish in Amsterdam, in December"} | |
| {"question_id": "20230120_29", "question_date": "2023/01/20", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/959340/quiz-of-the-week-14-20-january/", "question_sentence": "Jacinda Ardern has announced her resignation after serving as New Zealand’s prime minister since when?", "choices": ["2016", "2017", "2018", "2019"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "Ardern said that after a ‘challenging’ five-and-a-half years, she no longer had ‘enough in the tank’ to continue as the country’s leader"} | |