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Weekly News Quiz for Students: Super Bowl LVI, Trucker Protest, Ukraine
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Above is an image related to one of the news stories we followed this past week. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you'll find the answer.
Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these 10 questions you can get right.
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Ontario declared a state of emergency after truck drivers protesting parked their rigs in the middle of intersections in Canadian cities, blocking traffic, and, in some places, bringing daily life and business to a standstill.
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Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA, via Shutterstock
The State Department on Feb. 12 ordered all but a “core team” of its diplomats and employees to leave the American Embassy in , the capital of Ukraine, over fears that Moscow would soon mount a major assault.
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Ben Solomon for The New York Times
Blue and yellow confetti rained down on the field after the final whistle blew in the Super Bowl on the night of Feb. 12 as the Rams finished off the upstart Bengals, 23-20. It was the Rams’ first Super Bowl title as a team.
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AJ Mast for The New York Times
The Super Bowl LVI halftime show was the first time that hip-hop occupied the center of the concert. Which one of the following artists did NOT perform?
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Chang W. Lee/The New York Times
Which of the following stories was NOT news during the first week of the Beijing Winter Olympics?
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Matt Petit/Getty Images
The 2022 Oscar nominations were announced last week. Which film received the most nominations, including one for best picture?
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Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
The Justice Department said on Feb. 8 that it had seized over $3.6 billion worth of stolen and arrested a married couple accused of laundering it.
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Joshua Bright for The New York Times
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York is joining Democratic leaders in a handful of states, including California, New Jersey and Oregon, that said they would .
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Loren Elliott/Reuters
Why are Australian koalas like the ones pictured here in the news this month?
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Nic Lehoux
Three of the space and astronomy-related articles below were published recently in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?
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