CNN 10 NewsQuiz 3-10-2023
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- Q1
The Ironton, a 191-foot wooden schooner barge that sank in 1894 was recently discovered in what body of water?
Lake Mead
Lake Michigan
Lake Huron
Salton Sea
30s - Q2
CNN hero, Teresa Gray who runs a nonprofit called “Mobile Medics” recently delivered aid to what country struck by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake?
Japan
Turkey
North Korea
Australia
30s - Q3
Featured in Tuesday’s episode, what isolated country in Asia is said to be dealing with its worst food shortages since a famine in the 1990s?
Saudi Arabia
North Korea
Hawaii
Japan
30s - Q4
Colossal Biosciences says it plans to reincarnate what extinct pre-historic creature thanks to a breakthrough in genetics?
T Rex
Wooly Mammoth
Brontosaurus
Megalodon
30s - Q5
What U.S. state known for sunny skies and beaches was hit with back-to-back winter storms this week?
California
Minnesota
Nevada
Wisconsin
30s - Q6
What popular social media app could soon be banned in the U.S. over privacy and data security concerns?
Instagram
Snapchat
Tik Tok
Twitter
30s - Q7
A woman from Wisconsin might be the luckiest in the world after collecting a world record number of what?
China Dolls
stamps
gold coins
four-leaf clovers
30s - Q8
Thousands of government delegates across China gathered this week for the nation’s biggest annual political meeting, known as?
National Peoples Congress
Tale of Two Cities
Two Conventions
Gathering of Politicians
30s - Q9
Scientists are preparing to explore one of Jupiter’s moons where they believe other life may live. What’s it called?
Saturn
Pluto
Mars
Europa
30s - Q10
This Sunday marks the annual switch to what time standard in most U.S. states?
Day of Lost Sleep
Daylight Savings Time
Pacific Standard Time
National Day Time
30s - Q11
What does the FED do to slow down inflation by getting people to buy less?
raise food prices
Raise interest rates
lower the unemployment rate
give away free cheese
30s - Q12
In 10 out of 10 Friday, how did two adventurers get to the top 0f K2 (The second tallest mountain in the world)?
on skis
they climbed
they used rocket power
paragliding
30s