May News Quiz for Students: Debt Ceiling, Health Warning, Turkey's Election

Student News Quiz

Compiled by Jeremy EngleMay 30, 2023

The image above is related to a news story that we followed this month. Do you know what it shows? At the bottom of this quiz, you’ll find the answer.

Have you been paying attention to the news recently? See how many of these13 questions you can get right.

The nation's top health official issued an extraordinary public warning on May 23 about the risks of to young people, urging a push to fully understand the possible "harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents."

poor sleep habits

pandemic learning loss

social media

vaping

0% of readers answered this correctly.

Charles III of Britain was crowned king on May 6, during an eighth-century ritual in a 21st-century metropolis with a handful of concessions to the modern age but the unabashed pageantry of a fairy tale, unseen since the coronation of , his mother, in 1953.

Anne Boleyn

Cersei Lannister

Margaret Thatcher

Queen Elizabeth II

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President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy on May 27 reached an agreement in principle to lift the debt limit for two years while cutting and capping some government spending over the same period.

The centerpiece of the agreement is the two-year suspension of the debt ceiling, which .

caps the total amount of money the government is allowed to borrow

limits the income the government can collect through taxation

prohibits the issuing of U.S. treasury bonds

restricts the sale of stocks on Wall Street

Buddy Holly, pictured above, won best in show at this year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, becoming the first of his breed to claim the top prize. What type of hound is he?

a bracco Italiano

a giant schnauzer

a Japanese chin

a petit basset griffon Vendéen

The writer E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s. What was the result of their civil trial, which came to a close on May 9?

Ms. Carroll was ordered to pay Trump's legal fees

The case was declared a mistrial

Mr. Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation, and ordered to pay Ms. Carroll $5 million in damages

Mr. Trump was sentenced to 60 months' probation

Hollywood's 15 years of labor peace was shattered on May 1, as movie and television went on strike, bringing many productions to a halt and dealing a blow to an industry that has been rocked in recent years by the pandemic and sweeping technological shifts.

actors

animators

directors

writers

On May 11, the U.S. government ended its use of a pandemic-era health rule known as Title 42. What did the rule allow for?

The construction of a wall on the southern border

The expansion of Medicaid

The halting of all state and federal executions

The swift expulsion of migrants at the southern border

What's going on in this picture?

It's a film still from Jared Leto's new action thriller "Cat-Man: The Meow Tales."

It's a photo from a public service campaign to raise awareness for animal adoptions.

It's a red carpet moment from the closing night of the star-studded musical "Cats" on Broadway.

It's a scene from the annual Met Gala, which this year paid tribute to the career of the iconic fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Two years into a surge of book bans across the United States, is a hot spot in the clash over what reading material is appropriate for children. Laws there have greatly expanded the state's ability to restrict books – especially those touching on race, gender or sexual orientation.

California

Florida

Pennsylvania

Vermont

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In a breakthrough deal, California, Arizona and Nevada agreed to use less water from the drought-strained River, reducing the risk that it would run dry.

Colorado

Mississippi

Ohio

Snake

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Despite inflation, earthquakes and a tough race, President of Turkey beat back the greatest political challenge of his career on May 28. He secured victory in a presidential runoff that granted five more years to a mercurial leader who has vexed his Western allies while tightening his grip on the Turkish state.

Fumio Kishida

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Rishi Sunak

Yoweri Museveni

0% of readers answered this correctly.

With 62 newly discovered moons, which planet has eclipsed Jupiter as the planet with the most moons in the solar system?

Neptune

Saturn

Uranus

Venus

0% of readers answered this correctly.

Three of the articles about young people below were published in The New York Times this spring. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?

1 in 5 Young Chinese Is Jobless, and Millions More Are About to Graduate

Bans on Transition Care for Young People Spread Across U.S.

Teens Flock to New App Where They Just Enter Own Personal Data Into Form

Utah Law Could Curb Use of TikTok and Instagram by Children and Teens