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26 September 2024 at 5:57 pm·1-min read

September 27, 2024

WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ

1) What year was the United Nations founded?

2) What color lights help sea turtles find their way home?

3) Including Hurricane Helene, how many hurricanes have made landfall in the US this year?

4) How many crew members are on board NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission?

5) How long can experts detect a fingerprint after it’s been deposited?

6) What kind of tree is one of 8 new emoji approved by the Unicode Consortium?

7) Instagram will automatically default teen users to sleep mode during what hours?

8) What is the term for massive streams of material shooting out of black holes?

9) What sea creature will hunt with other species of fish instead of its own kind?

10) A pair of what animals arrived this week in Hong Kong from China?

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