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Category 1004 - Question 1What was the name of the
doctor in
China that
warned fellow doctors about
Covid-19? What happened to him?
Dr. Li Wenliang warned fellow physicians on December 30, 2019 about a strange virus he believed was very contagious. Warned by police to stop making false comments, he
died from
Covid-19 on February 7 2020.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 2What is the name of the Chinese
Coronavirus propaganda video published on YouTube? Who published it?
Once Upon a
Virus was published by New China TV.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 4Who is
Emilia Clarke?She plays
Daenerys Targaryen in
Game of
Thrones.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 5Who is
Claire Foy?She gained international recognition for portraying the young
Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series
The Crown, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Recently, she starred in The girl in the Spider's Web in the iconic role of Lisbeth Salander, based on the book series started by Stieg Larsson.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 6What large
cruise ship was
quarantined because of Covid-19? When?
The
Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined on February 5, 2020.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 7About 18 million barrels a day or about
20 percent of world
oil demand must pass through this
strait in the middle east before being transported to various countries?
The
Strait of
Hormuz. Note: the video says that 1/3 of seaborne oil travels through the strait, but most news sources quote 1/5 or twenty percent.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 8Before her breakout film roles, what was
Awkwafina known for?
Akwafina first gained popularity for her song
My Vag, a response to Mickey Avalon's My Dick.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 9What is
Covid-19?COVID-19 is an acronym that stands for
Coronavirus disease of
2019. It was named by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020 & is part of a large family of Corona Viruses which are transmitted from
animals to
people.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 11When was a
national emergency declared in the
USA? How much
funding did Donald Trump say this declaration would open up?
March 13, 2020. Trump said this declaration opens up
$50 billion in federal funding.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 13Who
blew the
whistle and revealed the data mining operations of
Cambridge Analytica?Christopher Wylie gave The Guardian documents that alleged Cambridge Analytica's unauthorized possession of personal private data from some 87 million Facebook user accounts.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 14When did China report the
first death from
Covid-19?January 11, 2020, they reported that a 61 year old man that had visited Huanan Seafood Market was the first victim.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 15What person related to the
Trump Campaign was involved with
Cambridge Analytica? Who was one of the major investors?
Cambridge Analytica was founded by conservative businessmen
Steve Bannon (former Vice President, Cambridge Analytica) and
Robert Mercer (investor). Mercer is believed to be a billionaire.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 16What is the name of the
market in
Wuhan where it's been reported that
Covid-19 first
emerged?
(Unverified video of animals sold. Note: list here doesn't include bats)
The
Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 17Who Am I? What am I known for?
Busy Phillips is known for her roles on the Dawson's Creek TV series and movies like He's Just Not That Into You. She also had her own talk show called
Busy Tonight
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 18When was the
Covid-19 Genome first posted to
GenBank? What is Genbank?
It was first posted on
January 13, 2020. GenBank is an open access, annotated collection of all publicly available nucleotide sequences and their protein translations.
Source: Wikipedia
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 19Who is
Cara Delevingne? What did she wear to a recent royal wedding? Which wedding?
She's an English model, singer and
actress. One of her recent notable films was Suicide Squad. She was given permission to wear a
tuxedo and
top hat for the wedding of
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 20Who runs
GenBank?The National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI). It's under the National Institutes of Health (NIH/USA) & part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration
(INSDC).
Source: Wikipedia
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 21Who
replaced Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show after his last show on August 6th, 2015?
Trevor Noah
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 22What organizations make up the
International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)?
DNA DataBank of Japan
(DDBJ)
European Nucleotide Archive
(ENA)
GenBank at
NCBI
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 23Where & When was the
first Covid-19
death in the
USA?A man with no travel history to China died on
February 28 at Evergreen Health Medical Center in
Kirkland, Washington.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 24Who is
Eve Hewson?The daughter of U2's
Bono, she's an
actress, best known for This Must Be the Place (2011),
Bridge of Spies (2015) and Enough Said.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 25When did
Covid-19 reach all
50 USA States? The last State to report a case?
On
March 17, 2020, West Virginia reported its first case, meaning all 50 USA States had cases.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 26When was
New York City declared as the US outbreak
epicenter? When did the USA first lead the world in the number of cases?
On
March 20, 2020,
New York became the
epicenter for Covid-19. By March 26, 2020 the USA had more cases than any other country.
Source: ABC News
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 27Who is the current
Prime Minister of
England? What party does he lead? What are some of the major political positions he held previously?
Boris Johnson leads the Conservative party. He was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 28Where and when did
Covid-19 start?A 55-year-old individual from Hubei province in China is has been reported as the first person to have contracted COVID-19 on
November 17, 2019 according to the South Morning China Post.
Source: Live Science
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 30Where was the first case of
Covid-19 outside of
China?The first case of Covid-19 outside of China was identified in
Thailand on
January 13 2020.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 31Who did
Brett Kavanaugh replace on the USA Supreme Court? Who accused him of sexual assault?
He replaced Justice
Anthony Kennedy. He was accused by
Christine Blasey Ford, an American professor of psychology at Palo Alto University, of assaulting her in the summer of 1982.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 32When and where was the
first case of
Covid-19 in the
USA?The first identified American case of Covid-19 was a 35 year old man in Snohomish County
Washington State on
January 15, 2020.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 33What does
MCAS stand for? What airplane uses it & what recent crashes involved it?
The
Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System is used by the Boeing 737 Max. It can automatically lower the aircraft nose when a sensor indicates that a stall may be imminent. It's been implicated in two recent crashes: Lion Air Flight 610 (Indonesian airline) and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 34What is
CRISPR?It's a
gene editing tool hailed as a breakthrough. CRISPR has enormous potential application, including altering the genome of humans, animals and other organisms, and manipulating the genes of food crops.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 36Who is
Busy Phillips?She's is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She had a talk show called
Busy Tonight on Entertainment Television that was recently cancelled.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 37Who is
Jay Sekulow?He was the lead outside
counsel for
Trump's impeachment trial in the United States Senate.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 38What
Israeli author has said that people will pay more money for
high quality news information?
Yuval Noah Harari says that the world is in need of a more innovative news model. He talks about how
algorithms can put a value on facts. Check out the video below at the 5:30 mark!
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 39What countries are permanent members of the
United Nations Security Council? How many elected members are there and how long is the term?
Permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. There are
ten non-permanent members that are elected for two year terms.
View Question Graphics Category 1004 - Question 40When she was just eleven years old,
Meghan Markle protested against an
ad she saw on TV? What was the ad for?
She wrote to
Proctor &
Gamble to protest their ad for
Ivory Soap that said 'women are fighting greasy pots and pans.' They changed their ad after her letter!
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