History

Question 1

Who lost in the 2020 presidential election?

Answer 1

Trump

Question 2

What country may have interfered with the 2020 presidential election?

Answer 2

Russia

Question 3

What country were U. S. troops withdrawn from by Biden in 2021?

Answer 3

Afganistan

Question 4

Who was the 56th governor of new york?

Answer 4

Andrew Cuomo

Question 5

Who is the U. S. secretary of state?

Answer 5

Antony Blinken

Question 6

Who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest after a store clerk suspected that they may have used a counterfeit $20 bill? (Overly drunk, had enough alcohol to kill 3 people)

Answer 6

George Floyd

Question 7

What role does Kamala Harris have in U.S. government?

Answer 7

Vice President

Question 8

Who is the king of Saudi Arabia?

Answer 8

King Salman bin Abdul Aziz

Question 9

Who survived 2 shootings by the Taliban?

Answer 9

Malala Yousafzai

Question 10

Who is the youngest Laureate for the Nobel peace prize?

Answer 10

Malala
Yousafzai

Question 11

Who was one of the main leaders of the march on Washington? He was later killed.

Answer 11

Martin Luther King JR

Question 12

Who is the U.S. secretary of education?

Answer 12

Miguel Cardona

Question 13

Please name 4 of the 8 supreme court justices.

Answer 13

Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Jackson, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch

Question 14

When was Israel established as a state?

Answer 14

1948

Question 15

What are murder hornets?

Answer 15

Asian giant hornets

Question 16

Who lived in the palestinian region until 1948 when the state of israel was made?

Answer 16

Jews / Palestinians

Question 17

When does impeachment of presidents happen?

Answer 17

When two-thirds vote of the Senate are against president who commits a crime or acts improperly, the House of Representatives may impeach(formally charge) them. If the official is convicted in a Senate impeachment trial, they are removed from office.

Question 18

Define: White Supremacist

Answer 18

a person who believes that white people constitute a superior race and should therefore dominate society

Question 19

What is a bear market?

Answer 19

When a stock market is going down.

Question 20

What is a bull market?

Answer 20

When a stock market is going up.

Question 21

Explain the law of supply.

Answer 21

states that, all other factors being equal, as the price of a good or service increases, the quantity of goods or services that suppliers offer will increase, and vice versa.

Question 22

What is public ownership?

Answer 22

Usually controlled by the government, owned by none, available to many.

Question 23

What is private ownership?

Answer 23

Owned by one person or group, available to them.

Question 24

What are a few examples of fixed costs?

Answer 24

Rent, production fee, employee payments

Question 25

What is the margin of money made on a product?

Answer 25

Profit

Question 26

What is an important part of american stock markets?

Answer 26

New York Stock Exchange

Question 27

Who is Karl Marx?

Answer 27

German philosopher, his ideas served as the basis of communism

Question 28

Who is Warren Buffet?

Answer 28

sixth most wealthiest person, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

Question 29

What is feudalism?

Answer 29

people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return (europe in the middle ages)

Question 30

What is capitalisim run by?

Answer 30

People

Question 31

What is communisim?

Answer 31

Run and owned by government.

Question 32

What is Socialisim?

Answer 32

Controlled by state, owned by people

Question 33

How long is a calendar year?

Answer 33

365 days

Question 34

What is the show-off spending practice called?

Answer 34

Conspicuous Consumption

Question 35

Name the term for poor or developing nations.

Answer 35

3rd world countries