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October 18, 2024

WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ

1) Election day in the US is only days away, and takes place on what date this year?

2) The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a group of World War II nuclear bomb survivors from what country?

3) In 2018 what company bought Detroit’s historic Michigan Central Station before renovating it?

4) Areas outside of Hurricane Milton’s path experienced what type of destructive weather event, fueled by high winds, as the storm made landfall?

5) This week, what commercial aerospace company successfully launched then recovered a massive rocket on giant metal pincers called “chopsticks”?

6) Featured this week on CNN 10, the insecticide DDT that was heavily used until the 1970s drastically affected the population of what native predator?

7) This week NASA launched a mission to explore the ice covered ocean world within which of Jupiter’s moons?

8) Discussed on Thursday’s episode, what weather pattern do scientists expect to affect winter weather this year?

9) What is the total number of electors in the electoral college of the United States?

10) From today’s episode - with restrictions on long range missiles, Ukraine uses what unmanned aerial vehicles to strike Russian targets?

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