Friday, Apr. 22 News Quiz of the Week: Poison, Weed

Welcome to our weekly current events trivia challenge, The Apr. 22 News Quiz of the Week: Test your knowledge of 2022 current events trivia and the week’s headlines. On the Russia-Ukraine front: What was the Moskva? In Business: What’s Twitter’s poison pill? And in Animals: How old is the world’s oldest gorilla? Make sure you know what happened this week. Our weekly news trivia game begins when you hit “Start Quiz” with the week’s best trivia questions and answers.

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News Quiz of the Week (Current Events Trivia) for Friday, April 22, 2022

News Quiz of the Week: 10 General knowledge questions from the past week. No time-limit. How smart are you this weekend?

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1. What was the Russian cruiser Moskva?

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2. Massachusetts was the first state on the East Coast to permit recreational cannabis sales. Which is the second?

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3. What’s Twitter’s poison pill?

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4. How old is the oldest known gorilla in the world?

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5. How old was Britney Spears when she had her first baby?

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6. What was Jennifer Grey’s character name on 1987’s Dirty Dancing?

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7. What’s Trichotillomania?

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8. Which Nirvana song is featured in 2022’s The Batman?

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9. Who penned the 1934 murder mystery novel “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?”?

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10. What’s a Wok?

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April 22 News Quiz of the Week - Current Events Quiz
  • Massachusetts was the first state on the East Coast to permit recreational cannabis sales. Which is the second?

    Screenshot: Clerks / Miramax
    New Jersey.
    New York.
    Connecticut.
    Virginia.

    How old was Britney Spears when she had her first baby?

    Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rhysadams/, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    16.
    20.
    24.
    28.

    Who penned the 1934 murder mystery novel "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?"?

    Photo: Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, colorized
    Agatha Christie.
    Jane Austen.
    Daphne Du Maurier.
    Gillian Flynn.

    What was the Russian cruiser Moskva?

    Image: Boris Groh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
    A six-passenger monoplane.
    A type of tank.
    A long-distance sailing yacht.
    A guided-missile cruiser.

    How old is the oldest known gorilla in the world?

    Photo: © Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG
    65.
    50.
    35.
    20.

    What's Twitter's poison pill?

    A plan to shut down the company’s operations.
    A plan to force the company to minimize earnings.
    A plan to dilute a buyer’s stake in the company.
    A plan to clean out the company’s bank account.

    What's a Wok?

    Photo: FiveRings, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    A large pot for cooking over an open fire originated in the Bronze Age.
    A thick-walled cooking pot with a tight lid originated in the Netherlands.
    A deep round-bottomed cooking pot originated in China.
    An automated kitchen appliance designed to prepare rice originated in Japan.

    Which Nirvana song is featured in 2022's The Batman?

    Screenshot: The Batman / DC Comics / HBO Max
    Come as you are.
    Heart-shaped box.
    Smells like teen spirit.
    Something in the Way.

    What's Trichotillomania?

    Screenshot: The Howard Stern Show on YouTube
    A disorder that causes people to pull out their hair.
    A disorder that causes people to eat their hair.
    A disorder that causes people to bite their fingernails.
    A disorder that causes people to try to tear their nails off.

    What was Jennifer Grey's character name on 1987's Dirty Dancing?

    Screenshot: Dirty Dancing / Vestron Pictures
    Babe.
    Baby.
    Barb.
    Barbie.

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