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October 15 2014 Flashcards

1
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What Grammy-winning entertainer was honored at the Epitome of Soul Awards earlier this month at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Memphis, TN?

A

Stevie Wonder

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The latest trend in wearable technology is its use at what life event?

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Weddings

Bride recording as she walks down aisle and drones recording as fly over reception

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What search resumed this month after a complete mapping of the seafloor in the southern Indian Ocean?

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Search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370

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The stars of what reality show were sentenced earlier this month to time in prison on conspiracy and bankruptcy fraud charges?

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Real Housewives of New Jersey

Giuseppe “Joe” and Teresa Giudice

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An ad campaign in Texas shows women sitting on public toilets with their babies to depict what it is like to nurse a baby in a bathroom stall. Shelby County administrators came under fire recently when a mother serving in what capacity was asked to do just that.

A

Jury duty

Employees showed the nursing mother a toilet stall, not an empty office or other private room.

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“Send Silence Packing” is the message being sent by the group “Active Minds” as they place 1,100 student backpacks on college campuses. What do the 1,100 backpacks represent?

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number of lives claimed by suicide of college students each year

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According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, two cases of this illness with cold-like symptoms have been confirmed in Tennessee (one in Shelby County).

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Enterovirus D68

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South African, Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius was found guilty not of murder in the death of his girlfriend but of what crime?

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culpable homicide
("unlawful or negligent killing;" that is, he killed without intent or premeditation, perhaps like the term "manslaughter" here)
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Last month, contract employee Brian Howard set fire to an Air Route Control Center in Aurora Illinois, effectively shutting down what two international airports?

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O’Hare and Midway

Chicago

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Amber Vinson, a 29-year-old nurse who worked at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, violated CDC guildelines this week when she did what after her exposure to Ebola and running a low-grade fever?

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used public transport

flew from Cleveland to Dallas

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Sayreville, NJ’s remaining football season was cancelled with 7 players facing criminal charges for what activity?

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sexual assault

part of hazing against 4 freshmen players

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Who is terrorizing residents of a California City, apparently a copy-cat from a local art project?

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Wasco Clown

scary clown pictures posted, many with weapons, around Wasco CA

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Name the performer who sent from child actor to starring in two hit TV shows to winning a Tony award, who recently wrote his memoir, “Choose Your Own Autobiography.”

A

Neil Patrick Harris

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Google is currently testing live video chats with what professionals?

A

Doctors

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Currently moving toward the Bahamas, it is expected to be strongest hurricane in at least three years. Name it.

A

Gonzalo

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News Channel 3 just kicked off its campaign to help Shelby County children by collecting donations. Name the campaign, whose name contains the items being collected.

A

Coats for Kids

17
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Whispering, crinkling paper, and tapping fingernails are touted as helpful to reduce stress through autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR. Followers of this craze, who watch YouTube videos of these activities to relax, call themselves what?

A

Tingleheads

18
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First lady Michelle Obama, in keeping with her campaign for healthy eating, responded to a question from a president impersonator with what line from a popular 2 Chainz song?

A

Turnip for what

get it, Turn up for what

19
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Who is the Pakistani teenager and activist for female education who was shot in the head by the Talliban at age 15 and now at age 17 is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize?

A

Malala Yousafzai

say: Ma-la-la You-sef-sigh

20
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling blocking what state from implementing its new voter ID law?

A

Wisconsin
(the law would require voters to present photo IDs, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared it constitution but then the ACLU filed emergency request for block of the ruling)

21
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Four days of events drew thousands of demonstrators to St. Louis and Ferguson, Missouri to protest police violence against young black men. What was the event called?

A

Weekend of Resistance

22
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What North Korean leader was speculated to have been deposed after he was not seen in public for more than a month?

A

Kim Jong-un

23
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A federal judge struck down a same-sex marriage ban in what state, the first state in the country to have such a ban?

A

Alaksa

24
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What African country currently has half of all Ebola virus cases?

A

Liberia

25
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What is the federal minimum wage today?

A

$7.25

26
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Name the bus company used in Shelby County that had 7 wrecks in the first 7 weeks of school.

A

Durham

27
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The first woman to head the organization, name the director of the Secret Service who recently resigned amid security breaches at the White House.

A

Julia Pierson

28
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Last month, over 50 people were killed in a volcanic eruption in Japan. Name the volcano.

A

Mount Ontake

say: On-ta-kay

29
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NFL star Ray Rice was charged with domestic violence after shocking video surfaced showing him punching his fiance in an elevator. For whom did Rice play before his contract was terminated?

A

Baltimore Ravens

30
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The voter ID law in what southern state was ruled unconstitutional by that state’s Supreme Court, upholding a lower court ruling that finds the law would add an additional “qualification for voting.”

A

Arkansas

31
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A new study indicates that this faulty gene dramatically increases the risk of breast cancer, particularly with a family history of such.

A

PALB2

32
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One of the most controversial measures on the upcoming TN ballot is Amendment 1. What rights are at the center of this amendment?

A

Abortion rights
(Amendment 1 would reverse a 2000 TN Supreme court decision that allowed abortion and took authority away from legislature.)

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What is at issue with TN Amendment 2 on the upcoming ballot?

A

Whether supreme court justices should be appointed or elected

34
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Amendment 3 on the upcoming TN ballot is about whether the state should create what?

A

state income tax

35
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Amendment 4 would allow voters to decide if veterans can hold what within the state of TN?

A

lottery

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