Briefing

News Quiz: Iran, Utah, Emergency Approval

Compiled by WILL DUDDING, ANNA SCHAVERIEN and JESSICA ANDERSON

Did you follow the headlines this week? Take our quiz to find out.

On Nov. 20, 96 percent of respondents knew which country singer donated $1 million to the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Only 27 percent knew which author won the National Book Award for fiction.

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Protesters burned U.S. and Israeli flags in Tehran last Saturday, a day after the killing of an Iranian official. Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA, via Shutterstock

A senior Iranian official was assassinated last Friday.

Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh?

Iran’s foreign minister

Iran’s intelligence chief

Iran’s supreme leader

Iran’s top nuclear scientist

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Ted Shaffrey/Associated Press

Which country granted emergency approval to Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, becoming the first Western country to allow its health service to begin mass inoculations?

Britain

Canada

Germany

United States

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Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Which Americans did a panel of scientific advisers recommend should be first to receive coronavirus vaccinations?

Educators

People over the age of 65

Residents and employees of nursing homes

Transportation workers

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Who said on Tuesday that “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election”?

Attorney General William Barr

Senator Lindsey Graham

Vice President Mike Pence

Senator Mitch McConnell

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A protester and an officer during demonstrations last Friday. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

Tens of thousands of people have blocked highways around New Delhi, choking routes into the Indian capital.

What are they protesting?

Factory conditions

Farm policies

Police brutality

Teacher salaries

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Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

Which company plans to acquire Slack?

Facebook

Google

Oracle

Salesforce

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What was removed from the Utah desert last Friday, just 10 days after it was discovered?

A conquistador statue

A nearly complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex

A rock with Native American paintings

A three-sided metal monolith

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Maxar Technologies, via Associated Press

The Arecibo radio telescope, featured in movies like “Goldeneye” and “Contact,” collapsed unexpectedly on Tuesday morning. Where was it located?

Bolivia

Chile

Puerto Rico

Uruguay

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Two boxers in their 50s stepped back into the ring for “an exhibition bout between two former champions” last Saturday. Name them.

Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield

Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson

Roy Jones Jr. and Bernard Hopkins

Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr.

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Members of the South Korean K-pop band BTS pose for photographers during a press conference in November. Lee Jin-Man/Associated Press

A so-called BTS Law was passed in South Korea, much to the excitement of fans.

The revised law allows top K-pop stars to do what?

Receive a key to the city of Seoul

Appear in public without a mask

Waive taxes on their merchandise

Postpone their military service

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A crowdfunding campaign is seeking to raise at least $5.3 million to buy — and convert into a museum — the longtime home of which fantasy author?

William Goldman

C.S. Lewis

H.P. Lovecraft

J.R.R. Tolkien