Current Events 2018 Flashcards
On Thursday, Apple became the first company to be worth blank.
One trillion.
October 2018, Paul Allen, one of the founders of blank, passed away at the age of 65.
Microsoft
October 2018, a staff meeting at a bank in China was interrupted by blank.
It was interrupted by a 5-foot-long python falling from the ceiling and landing on an employee.
October 2018, President Trump toured the areas of Florida and Georgia that were ravaged by blank.
Hurricane Michael
October 2018, Nebraska’s tourism board announced they were changing the state slogan from Nebraska nice to blank.
Nebraska - honestly, it’s not for everyone.
October 2018, streaming service blank showed bigger than expected growth, adding 7 million users in 2018.
Netflix
Hundreds of people received calls from an animal hospital in Hawaii thanks to a blank.
A tiny gecko stepping on a phone’s touch screen.
According to the hospital’s director, she was worried there was some kind of emergency when she got nine calls in a row from her work number with just silence on the other end. The calls were actually being made by a gecko, whose tiny, little feet were dialing up everyone on the phone’s recently called list. While some people complained, most were actually really thankful for the gecko’s call, which helped them save 15 percent or more on their car insurance.
October 2018, the British royal family announced that blank was pregnant with her first child.
Meghan Markle
