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The Weekly Newsquiz tests your knowledge of events in the news

December 6, 2019

Today’s special edition of CNN 10 features the second installment in our series on Facebook, the massive social media company that began as a project at Harvard University in 2004.

WEEKLY NEWSQUIZ

1. Until last weekend, Adil Abdul-Mahdi was the prime minister of what nation, which has seen months of protests over unemployment, alleged corruption and living conditions?

2. In 1869, a collapse in the U.S. gold market gave rise to what two-word term, which is now used to describe a retail event?

3. Utilizing more than 13,000 sensors, a professor at the Technical University of Munich has helped develop a “skin” that could make interactions safer between humans and what?

4. In what chamber of the U.S. Congress did the judiciary committee begin holding impeachment hearings this week, following related hearings by the intelligence committee?

5. In what nation are scientists searching for a place to bury almost 2,000 containers of high-level, radioactive waste, as part of a plan to close all of the nation’s nuclear plants?

6. How many nations are members of NATO, which held a two-day summit in London earlier this week?

7. In the journal Nature Communications, scientists recently published a study that suggested coral reefs could be revitalized through what activity, which appeared to attract fish?

8. In what location (a marine ecosystem that covers 135,000 square miles) did scientists conduct the activity noted in question 6?

9. More than a quarter of the world’s population is said to log on to what massive social media site every month?

10. Name the founder of the website noted in question 9, who started the project 15 years ago at Harvard University.

TRANSCRIPT

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