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in PoliticsThe European Union’s embargo on Russian oil exempts which country?
Answer: The European Union’s deal to embargo Russian oil, finalized on May 30, 2022, exempts Hungary from the measure the rest of the bloc is taking to punish Russia for its brutal invasion of Ukraine._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat’s the 4-nation Quad?
Answer: The 4-nation Quad, Formally the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is a strategic security dialogue between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. It began after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami when the four countries joined together to provide humanitarian and disaster assistance to the affected region and was formalized in 2007. The nations regrouped in…
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in PoliticsIn Afghanistan, the Taliban ordered that all women on news channels must do what?
Answer: On May 19, 2022, Afghanistan’s Taliban ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air. In reaction, male TV presenters on Afghanistan’s Tolo News wore face masks in solidarity with their female peers as part of a protest called #FreeHerFace on social media. Tolo news presenters wore facemasks on air for two…
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in PoliticsAnthony Albanese is Australia’s first Prime minister with what?
Answer: Anthony Albanese was sworn in on May 23, 2022, as Australia’s 31st prime minister, marking the first time a person with a non-Anglo surname has held the office and making him the first Italian Australian to become prime minister. He replaced Scott Morrison, who had a minor acting career as a child.
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in PoliticsHow many firearms are there per 100 people in the US?
Answer: Figures from the Small Arms Survey – a Swiss-based leading research project – estimate 390 million guns in circulation in the US in 2018. That’s a ratio of 120.5 guns per 100 people, making the US the only nation on Earth with more civilian firearms than people. In comparison, Canada has a ratio of 34.7…
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in PoliticsWhat’s “status quo ante”?
Answer: Status quo ante is Latin for the state where (things were) before, usually the state of affairs before an upsetting development._x000D_
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in PoliticsÉlisabeth Borne became France’s second female prime minister in 2022. Who was the first?
Answer: Édith Cresson is the first woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France. She served from May ’91 to Apr. ’92, and left office due to corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology.
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in PoliticsThe US is the largest NATO member in population. Which country is the second-largest?
Answer: The US has a population of an est. 335 million in 2022, making it the largest NATO member. Turkey is the second-largest, with a population of 85.5 million, Germany comes next with a population of 84 million, and the UK is fourth with a population of 68.5 million. Russia is not a member of…
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in PoliticsNews articles about which subject generated the most social media interactions in the US in April and May 2022?
Answer: Data collected by Newswhip from Apr. 4 to May 16, 2022, and published in Axios on May 17, indicated that news articles about the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial had generated more social media interactions per-article in the US compared to all other news topics.
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in PoliticsWhat do “The Great Replacement” conspiracy theorists in the US believe?
Answer: The “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory suggests that a powerful cabal of leftist and Jewish politicians and businessmen plan to replace white Americans with masses of indebted immigrants from other ethnic groups. Investigations into the May 14, 2022, mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, are focusing on a 180-page manifesto containing the white nationalist conspiracy theory…
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in PoliticsWhich country elected Bongbong as its leader?
Answer: On May 9, 2022, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator of the Philippines, won a landslide victory in the presidential election. Marcos Jr. received nearly 30 million votes, more than double that of his closest rival. Marcos Jr., aged 64, will take office on 30 June for a single six-year…
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in PoliticsWhere were Canada’s Justin Trudeau, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, and singer Bono visiting on May 7, 2022?
Answer: Sunday, May 7, 2022, saw Jill Biden, the US first lady, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, and singer Bono of U2, visiting Ukraine on a day of public displays of international support._x000D_
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in PoliticsWhat’s Azovstal?
Answer: Azovstal Iron and Steelworks is one of the largest steel companies in Ukraine. About 600 civilians and 2,000 Ukrainian fighters were trapped in the Mariupol steel mill for over 60 days during the destruction of the Ukrainian port town by Russian forces, beginning Feb. 24, 2022. The last civilians who found shelter in bunkers…
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in PoliticsNews articles about which subject generated the most social media interactions in the US in April and May 2022?
Answer: Data collected by Newswhip from Apr. 4 to May 16, 2022, and published in Axios on May 17, indicated that news articles about the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial had generated more social media interactions per-article in the US compared to all other news topics.
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in PoliticsIn the US, what is the landmark Roe v. Wade decision?
Answer: Roe v. Wade was a 1973 US Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide._x000D_
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in PoliticsHow long was Myanmar a democracy?
Answer: Myanmar had a short period of tentative democracy for five years before a coup in February 2021 by the military, which has ruled the former British colony for five of the past six decades._x000D_
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in PoliticsBefore Emmanuel Macron, who was the last French president to win a second term in office?
Answer: Only six presidents in the history of won a second-term election. The previous one was Jacques Chirac, who entered his second term in 2002. Macron was elected to a second term on April 24, 2022, defeating right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen for the second time and becoming the first French presidential candidate to win re-election…
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in PoliticsMassachusetts was the first state on the East Coast to permit recreational cannabis sales. Which is the second?
Answer: New Jersey is the second state on the East Coast to fully authorize sales of cannabis to all adults. On Apr. 11, 2022, New Jersey gave seven medical-marijuana companies approval to start selling their products to all adults in 13 individual dispensaries scattered throughout the state, including several within a half-hour drive of New York…
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in PoliticsAs of the end of March 2022, how many Ukrainian children had to leave their homes?
Answer: The United Nations children’s agency, on March 24, 2022, reported that over half of Ukraine’s children, 4.3 million of an estimated 7.5 million, have fled their homes in the first month of the Russian invasion, including about 1.8 million child refugees who have left the country. The total number of refugees who have flooded…
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in PoliticsWho was the first woman to serve as the US Secretary of State?
Answer: Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, died of cancer on March 23, 2022, at 84. Albright served in that role from 1997 to 2001. She fled the Nazis as a child with her family from her native Czechoslovakia to London during World War II and was raised a Roman Catholic. Still,…
