Current Events - June 2021
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15 questions · Published June 9, 2021
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. Republicans used a filibuster to block a bill to probe the January attack on the Capital. In 1957, Sen. Strom Thurmond set the record for the longest ever filibuster at ____ hours.
A staunch opponent of Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
- Multiple Choice
2. Farmers in Australia's New South Wales state are facing a possible economic crisis as well as personal misery due to a vast plague of millions of ___________.
- Multiple Choice
3. The Vatican in Rome was recently sued by an artist for using her street art without permission on its official ____________.
Artist Alessia Babrow was shocked to learn the Vatican had used her street art, a heart emblazoned across Christ's chest, on their official 2020 Easter postage stamp.
- Multiple Choice
4. The largest U.S. fuel pipeline was the recent victim of a ransomeware attack. How did Colonial Pipeline resolve the attack and restore service?
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline suffered a ransomware cyberattack that impacted computerized equipment managing the pipeline.
Colonial Pipeline paid the requested ransom (75 bitcoin or $4.4 million) within several hours after the attack. The hackers then sent Colonial Pipeline a software application to restore their network, but it operated very slowly
- Multiple Choice
5. In Cambodia, an animal named "Magawa" has been the most successful mine-sniffing _________ in history, clearing some 1.5 million square feet of fields for land mines.
After five years of sniffing out landmines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa, the African giant pouched rat, is retiring.
Magwa has been the most successful rodent trained to find land mines and alert its human handlers so the explosives can be safely removed.
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