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Category 1005 - Question 1Who was the first person to be named
National Youth Poet Laureate? What was the name of the poem she delivered at the inauguration of President Joe Biden?
Amanda Gorman
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 2Who
replaced Jon Stewart as host of The
Daily Show after his last show on August 6th, 2015?
Trevor Noah
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 3USA Attorney General? What is one prominent position he held previously?
Merrick Garland served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in March 2016. President Obama appointed him to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 4What 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 1005 - Question 5Who 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 1005 - Question 6Who 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 1005 - Question 7Who 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 1005 - Question 8Who 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 1005 - Question 10What 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 1005 - Question 11Who 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 1005 - Question 12What large
cruise ship was
quarantined because of
Covid-19? When?
The
Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined on February 5, 2020.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 14Who 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 1005 - Question 16Who Am I?Jimmy Fallon is an American comedian, actor, singer, musician and
television host. He currently hosts Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a late night talk show that airs on NBC. Prior to that he appeared in several films, and was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2004. (Source: Wikipedia)
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 18Who is
Tyrese Gibson (AKA Tyrese)?
He's an American R&B singer & former MTV VJ, best known for his roles as Joseph 'Jody' Summers in 'Baby Boy' and as
Roman Pearce in the The
Fast and the
Furious series.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 20Who Am I?Stephen Colbert, an American political satirist, writer, comedian,
television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits. (Source:Wikipedia)
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 21USA
Secretary of
Transportation? What is one prominent position he held previously? He is a strong advocate for what?
Pete Buttigieg was the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana. He came out as gay in 2015 and is a LGBT rights advocate.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 22In August, 2013, this
South African-American entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor unveiled a proposal for a new form of transportation between the Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area, named
'hyperloop.' It will use a tube and partial vacuum to reduce aerodynamic drag?
Elon Musk, Product Architect of Tesla Motors.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 23He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a
talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol?
Simon Cowell
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 24What other ventures is
Elon Musk involved in?
He founded
SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) and co-founded
Tesla Motors and
PayPal.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 26What is
Notorious RBG?It's a
book. Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 27Who is
Childish Gambino?AKA
Donald Glover, he's an American actor,
comedian, writer, director, rapper, and DJ. He performs music under the stage name Childish Gambino and as a DJ under the name mcDJ.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 29Who am I?Megyn Kelly, an American
journalist and
political commentator. She was a news anchor at Fox News from 2004 to 2017, and with NBC News until 2018. From 2007 to 2012, she co-hosted the Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve specials with Bill Hemmer. She was fired after making comments about blackface and Halloween costumes.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 31Who Am I?Mehmet Cengiz Oz, also known as
Dr. Oz, is an Turkish-American cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and television personality.
Oz first appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, and later on Larry King Live and other TV programs. In 2009, The Dr. Oz Show, a daily television program focusing on medical issues and personal health was launched by Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures. (Source: Wikipedia)
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 32Who
founded the
#MeToo movement & when did it originate?
Tarana Burke founded the Me Too movement in 2006.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 33Who is
James Corden?He hosts The
Late Late Show with James Corden, a late-night television talk show on CBS. His his
Carpool Karaoke sketches have become extremely popular.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 34In May 2018 the
Time's Up Women of Color movement called for a
boycott of this
singer & ex basketball player's music and performances over the many allegations against him?
They called for a boycott of
R. Kelly, using the hashtag
#MuteRKelly.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 35What is the name of the
porn actress who claimed that Donald
Trump had an
affair with her? How much hush money was she paid? Her real name? Alleged affair was when?
Stormy Daniels, AKA, Stephanie Clifford, was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about the alleged affair that she claims took place in 2006.
Trump and his surrogates paid $130,000 hush money to silence Daniels about an affair she said she had with Trump in 2006. Trump's spokespersons have denied the affair and accused Daniels of lying.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 36President Obama's daughters?Malia (oldest) &
Sasha (youngest)
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 37General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of
China?Xi Jinping
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 38What
Canadian company has developed
internet filtering software that's been used to filter web traffic? Critics say it’s been used to censor entire populations, in violation of their human rights?
Netsweeper is used around the world. For example, in Yemen it's been used to block news and opposition web sites. In Kuwait, some pages of the world Health Organization have been censored.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 40Who Am I?Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer
(COO) of
Facebook.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 41Who am I?Les Moonves, the former
Chairman and
CEO of
CBS. He resigned on September 9, 2018 in light of allegations that he sexually abused several women.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 42Who created &
directed the documentary films
Sharkwater and
Revolution?Canadian conservationist
Rob Stewart. He died at the age of 37 in a scuba diving incident while in Florida filming Sharkwater Extinction
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 43What
cryptocurrency company was founded by
twins that
sued Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook? When was it founded? Name of the twins?
Gemini was founded in 2014, by
Cameron and
Tyler Winklevoss, who were featured in the film The Social Network.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 44Who is
Jay Sekulow?He was the
lead outside
counsel for
Trump's impeachment trial in the United States Senate.
View Question Graphics Category 1005 - Question 45About 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 1005 - Question 46Who was the
last the
Secretary of
State for the USA in the
Trump administration?
Mike Pompeo
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