Current Events - March 2023
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15 questions · Published April 3, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What was the only acting category in which "Everything Everywhere All at Once" did NOT take home an Academy Award?
"Everything Everywhere All at Once" (2022) is the first film since "Network" (1976) to take home three of the four acting prizes at the Academy Awards. It did NOT take home the Oscar for Best Actor as it was not nominated in that category.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which 16-seed defeated top ranked Purdue in the first round of the men's NCAA College Basketball Tournament on March 17?
For just the second time in tournament history, a 16-seed defeated a top ranked school when Fairleigh Dickinson knocked off No. 1 Purdue in the first round of the NCAA Men's College Basketball Tournament.
- Multiple Choice
3. What American alpine skier won her record 87th World Cup victory in early March 2023?
Mikaela Shiffren is the most decorated alpine solo skier of all time, men and women. She secured her record 87th World Cup victory on March 11 and a week later added another to bring her career total to eighty-eight.
- Multiple Choice
4. Several people were killed and more were injured in a __________ factory explosion in Pennsylvania on March 24.
As of this writing, an investigation is still under way but authorities believe that a gas leak is responsible for an explosion inside a chocolate factory that left seven dead and several more wounded.
- Fill In The Blank
5. For the second time in as many months, a train operated by _________ Southern derailed in eastern Ohio.
Two trains operated by Norfolk Southern Railway derailed just one month apart in February and March 2023.
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