USA (2010s)

Question 1

Name the man who was sworn in on February 5, 2018, to replace Janet Yellen as chair of the board of governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Answer 1

Jerome Powell

Question 2

Though some U.S. aircraft carriers are named for navy admirals, there are, as of 2018, two in service that are named for generals in the U.S. Army instead. What are those two ships?

Answer 2

Many other aircraft carriers are named for U.S. presidents, the two former generals among them being George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Question 3

In 2013 Pres. Obama was sworn in on two bibles – one was Lincoln’s and one belonged to this man who died 103 years after Lincoln.

Answer 3

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 4

On the evening of August 20, 2018, protestors toppled a statue of a Confederate soldier named “Silent Sam” that stood since 1913 on the northern edge of the campus of what university?

Answer 4

UNC Chapel Hill

Question 5

The US government reached a milestone in 2018, awarding its 10 millionth of these protections; more than 100,000 have gone to IBM.

Answer 5

Patent

Question 6

This man resigned as governor of Puerto Rico on August 2, 2019 following mass demonstrations in response to leaked Telegram discussions and mismanagement of hurricane relief funds.

Answer 6

Ricardo Rosselló

Question 7

Give the last name of any one of the three men who had, as of November 1, 2019, launched formal challenges against President Donald Trump for the Republican Party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election.

Answer 7

Weld, Walsh, Sanford

Question 8

What was the name of the offshore drilling rig operated by BP that exploded off the coast of Louisiana in April 2010, ultimately resulting in what some reports estimated at 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico?

Answer 8

Deepwater Horizon

Question 9

He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama and blocked, and five years later was appointed Attorney General

Answer 9

Merrick Garland