{"question_id": "20230324_0", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "A 5,000-mile-wide blob of seaweed is heading for the shores of which state?", "choices": ["Florida", "California", "Maine", "Alaska"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "A giant, stinky seaweed blob is headed to Florida. It’s expected to become prevalent on beaches in July, potentially threatening to put a damper on the summer tourist season."}
{"question_id": "20230324_1", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which store announced it can no longer afford to sell eggs due to inflation and soaring prices?", "choices": ["Walmart", "Target", "Dollar Tree", "Costco"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Dollar Tree, which sells most products for $1.25, will stop selling eggs because the company can’t make money offering them at flat prices."}
{"question_id": "20230324_2", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Which country was named the world’s happiest for the sixth year in a row?", "choices": ["United States", "Ireland", "France", "Finland"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "The world’s happiest country is Finland, according to the annual World Happiness Report, which ranks countries based largely on life evaluations from the Gallup World Poll. The US, France, and Ireland did not crack the top 10."}
{"question_id": "20230324_3", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "The protection provided by Covid-19 vaccines begins to wane after how many months?", "choices": ["Two", "Four", "Six", "Nine"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "The effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccines fades after six months as levels of neutralizing antibodies in the blood fall, studies show. With many people anxiously wondering how soon they can get another shot, US health officials are now considering another round of bivalent boosters for the most vulnerable Americans."}
{"question_id": "20230324_4", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "A major strike this week halted classes for more than a half million students in which city?", "choices": ["New York", "Los Angeles", "Chicago", "Houston"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "A union representing school workers in Los Angeles – the nation’s second-largest district – went on strike, shutting down schools for several days."}
{"question_id": "20230324_5", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Actress Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in court this week over her alleged involvement in which type of accident?", "choices": ["Skiing collision", "Boating collision", "Snowboarding collision", "Surfing collision"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "The trial over a 2016 skiing accident involving Gwyneth Paltrow began this week. A 76-year-old man alleges Paltrow “skied out of control” and ran into him, causing serious injuries. The actress, on the other hand, filed a countersuit alleging the man ran into her."}
{"question_id": "20230324_6", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Wednesday was World Water Day. Around what percentage of the global population lacks access to clean water?", "choices": ["30%", "15%", "10%", "3%"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Approximately 10% of the world’s population – or an estimated 785 million people – lack access to clean water, according to the World Health Organization."}
{"question_id": "20230324_7", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Congress grilled the CEO of which social media company this week, citing potential national security risks?", "choices": ["Facebook", "TikTok", "Twitter", "Snapchat"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified before Congress for the first time. He received fierce criticism from lawmakers, including calls for the app to be banned."}
{"question_id": "20230324_8", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "Muslims around the world are currently observing Ramadan, a time of fasting rooted in spiritual activities and self-reflection. How long does the celebration last?", "choices": ["3 days", "5 days", "30 days", "50 days"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Many Muslims will fast from sunup to sundown every day for an entire month. This year, Ramadan runs from March 22 to April 21."}
{"question_id": "20230324_9", "question_date": "2023/03/23", "question_source": "CNN", "question_url": "https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/cnn-5-things-news-quiz-march-23-sec/", "question_sentence": "About how much does it cost for a roundtrip ticket to space?", "choices": ["$100,000", "$200,000", "$350,000", "$450,000"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "One trip to space will cost you about $450,000. However, the majority of Americans actually don’t want to leave Earth. Only about 40% would travel to space if given the opportunity, according to a CNN analysis."}
{"question_id": "20230324_10", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Which of these 2023 NCAA men’s basketball tournament participants did not advance to the Sweet 16 this year?", "choices": ["Arkansas", "Auburn", "Creighton", "Florida Atlantic"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_11", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Which U.S. senator said the Manhattan DA leading the probe into ex-President Donald Trump's alleged hush-money payments should \"be put in jail.\"", "choices": ["Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)", "Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky)", "Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)", "Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_12", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "The school district of which major U.S. city closed this week because of a planned strike by tens of thousands of school employees and teachers?", "choices": ["Los Angeles", "Philadelphia", "Houston", "Chicago"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_13", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "This week, Japan defeated the U.S. in the final of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. Which two teams were the other semifinalists?", "choices": ["The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico", "Cuba and Puerto Rico", "The Dominican Republic and Mexico", "Cuba and Mexico"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_14", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "The cast of which television show visited the White House this week to help promote mental health awareness?", "choices": ["“Severance”", "“Abbott Elementary”", "“Ted Lasso”", "“The Mandalorian”"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_15", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Which professional dancer is set to replace Tyra Banks as one of the hosts of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars”?", "choices": ["Cheryl Burke", "Derek Hough", "Julianne Hough", "Sharna Burgess"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_16", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed legislation on Tuesday approving a new state flag. Which of these isn’t featured on it?", "choices": ["Moose", "Beehive", "Rocks", "Mountains"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_17", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Which of these companies received funding from the U.K. Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor on the moon?", "choices": ["SpaceX", "Sainsbury's", "Amazon", "Rolls-Royce"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_18", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "General Motors says it will retire which vehicle at the end of the 2024 model year?", "choices": ["Buick Encore", "Chevrolet Camaro", "Cadillac Escalade", "GMC Acadia"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_19", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "USAtoday", "question_url": "https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/quiz/news-quiz/2023-03-24/", "question_sentence": "Which nation is experiencing a wave of protests after its leader pushed forward an unpopular bill to raise the country's retirement age?", "choices": ["Italy", "France", "Greece", "The Netherlands"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": ""}
{"question_id": "20230324_20", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Which film star is on trial in Utah over a “hit and run” skiing accident?", "choices": ["Natalie Portman", "Salma Hayek", "Gwyneth Paltrow", "Michelle Pfeiffer"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "The Oscar-winning actor is being sued by a man seeking $300,000 in compensation for injuries allegedly sustained when she crashed into him on a Utah ski slope in 2016. Paltrow claims retired optometrist Terry Sanderson collided with her and is countersuing for “a symbolic” $1 in damages."}
{"question_id": "20230324_21", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Which country has been named the world’s happiest, for the sixth consecutive year?", "choices": ["Finland", "Iceland", "Sweden", "Norway"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "Finland, Denmark and Iceland ranked highest in the UN’s World Happiness Report, based on data from the Gallup World Poll. Britain dropped two places to 19th in the index, while Lebanon and Afghanistan were named as the unhappiest nations."}
{"question_id": "20230324_22", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Which animal is to be reintroduced to west London for the first time in 400 years?", "choices": ["Tundra vole", "Pine marten", "Beavers", "Wild boar"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "Eurasian beavers were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 16th century, but a breeding pair will be reintroduced to wetlands in Ealing this summer in a bid to help tackle climate change by promoting a biodiverse ecosystem."}
{"question_id": "20230324_23", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "New research suggests babies born in the wealthiest parts of London can expect to live for how much longer than those born in Glasgow?", "choices": ["4.5 years", "6 years", "9 years", "12 years"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "Glasgow has an average life expectancy of 76 years, compared with 88 in north London’s Hampstead area, according to an analysis of ONS data by Health Equals. The campaign group blamed “startling” regional disparities on substandard housing, poor education and poverty. Find out more with The Week Unwrapped podcast."}
{"question_id": "20230324_24", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Which Jilly Cooper novel is being turned into a Disney+ adaptation starring David Tennant and Danny Dyer?", "choices": ["Rivals", "Riders", "Polo", "Mount!"], "answer": ["0"], "evidence": "The newly announced cast of the upcoming eight-part series – set in the cut-throat world of independent television in 1980s England – also includes Aidan Turner, Claire Rushbrook, Oliver Chris and Emily Atack."}
{"question_id": "20230324_25", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "What percentage of Brits suffer from a psychological condition known as misophonia, according to a new study?", "choices": ["5%", "12%", "15%", "18%"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "Sounds such as chewing, sniffing and loud breathing are intolerable for one in five Brits, the study found. Researchers from King’s College London and Oxford University quizzed more than 770 people to determine how many had a fight-or-flight response to such everyday noises."}
{"question_id": "20230324_26", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Which sports governing body has banned transgender women from elite female competitions?", "choices": ["International Tennis Federation", "World Athletics Council", "Fifa (International Federation of Association Football)", "World Professional Boxing Federation"], "answer": ["1"], "evidence": "The ban, which comes into effect on 31 March, applies to transgender women who have undergone male puberty. The governing body’s president, Seb Coe, said the controversial decision had been taken to “protect the future of the female category”."}
{"question_id": "20230324_27", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "How many times will media mogul Rupert Murdoch have been wed following his upcoming marriage to US radio personality Ann Lesley Smith?", "choices": ["Two", "Three", "Five", "Six"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "The 92-year-old billionaire met Smith, 66, at his at his Bel Air vineyard last September, less than a year after his divorce from fourth wife Jerry Hall was finalised."}
{"question_id": "20230324_28", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "Newly unearthed documents suggest a slave trafficked to Italy was the mother of which famous Renaissance figure?", "choices": ["Galileo Galilei", "Niccolò Machiavelli", "Michelangelo", "Leonardo da Vinci"], "answer": ["3"], "evidence": "Carlo Vecce, a professor from Naples, discovered documents in the archives of Florence which show that shortly after the artist’s birth, his father freed a slave called Caterina – widely agreed to be the name of Da Vinci’s mother but about whom little else is known."}
{"question_id": "20230324_29", "question_date": "2023/03/24", "question_source": "THE WEEK", "question_url": "https://www.theweek.co.uk/quiz-of-the-week/960176/quiz-of-the-week-18-24-march/", "question_sentence": "What was unearthed under the site of a proposed new Aldi supermarket in the Buckinghamshire town of Olney?", "choices": ["Medieval coin haul", "Great Plague burial pit", "Roman mosaic", "Remains of Ice Age mammoth"], "answer": ["2"], "evidence": "“You’ll be surprised at what you can get at Aldi,” said The Times, which listed “groceries, power drills, inflatables, sewing machines” and a “Roman mosaic”. The “archaeologically significant” discovery points to the existence of a high-status Roman house, or domus."}