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News quiz - Week 18 (30 seconds)

NEWS QUIZ
Week 18
Schoolyear 2023-2024
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CitizenshipLower Secondary (Key Stage 3)Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)

This lesson contains 13 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.

time-iconLesson duration is: 15 min

Instructions

Every week on Thursday*, a free news quiz for students in primary education and secondary education. Weekly, thousands of teachers and students take this news quiz, for example, to conclude the week. However, this news quiz can also be perfectly used at home or in a pub quiz.
The news quiz can be played in three variations: 10, 20, or 30 seconds per question.

This weeky News Quiz can always be found here.

* Except for holidays

Items in this lesson

NEWS QUIZ
Week 18
Schoolyear 2023-2024

Slide 1 - Slide


What shut down airports in Indonesia?
A
An earthquake
B
Ash from a volcanic eruption
C
A Tsunami
D
An F5 tornado

Slide 2 - Quiz


A three-year-old girl in North Carolina said monsters were in her bedroom. What did her parents find
hidden in the walls?
A
A bear in hibernation
B
A honeycomb with over 60,000 bees
C
A 20 feet long anaconda
D
A hedgehog family

Slide 3 - Quiz


Which Royal will be returning to public duties next week?
A
Princess Kate
B
Prince Edward
C
King Charles
D
Queen Camilla

Slide 4 - Quiz


 The commission president of the Netherlands, Von der Leyen has criticised the far right as…
A
Neonazi's
B
Putin's proxies
C
Scapegoats
D
Toddlers

Slide 5 - Quiz


Which European queen recently got a drama series about her life?
A
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
B
Queen Mathilde of Belgium
C
Queen Letizia of Spain
D
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Slide 6 - Quiz


What is the USA building,
in an attempt to aid the situation in Gaza?
A
A bridge
B
A floating pier
C
A bunker
D
A drone army

Slide 7 - Quiz


Which plan has been approved this week by the new Irish legislation?
A
Legalising abortion
B
A complete ban of drinking in all workplaces
C
A plan that states UK as 'safe country' to which asylum seekers can be returned
D
To deport asylum seekers to Rwanda

Slide 8 - Quiz


Why did protesters seize Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall
this week?
A
Students were rallying against the installation of bidets in the dormitory bathrooms
B
Pro-Palestine groups are occupying the hall after defying a deadline to take down an encampment
C
To demonstrate against the university's decision to replace all textbooks with digital books
D
The protest centered around demanding a ban on the use of the Oxford comma in all academic papers

Slide 9 - Quiz


Which leader severed ties with Israel over Gaza ‘genocide’?
A
Moroccan president Aziz Akhannouch
B
King of Jordan Adullah II
C
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
D
Colombian president Gustavo Petro

Slide 10 - Quiz


Apple is working to fix an iPhone issue. What’s the issue?
A
Some iPhone alarms weren’t playing a sound
B
Some iPhones keep restarting every 2 minutes
C
Some iPhones create accidental screenshots when pressing lock
D
Some iPhones get way too many screen time notifications

Slide 11 - Quiz


So...how did the 
News Quiz go this week?
😒🙁😐🙂😃

Slide 12 - Poll

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Slide 13 - Slide