Today's show explains why tensions are running high between India and Pakistan following a violent attack in a long-disputed region. We're reporting on a large wildfire in New Jersey and discussing the potential health impacts of poor air quality. And we're taking you to Hollywood's Magic Castle to show you how the next generation is learning slight of hand. A fireball over Brazil, some history of the Suez Canal, and the world's largest strawberry cake round out our coverage this Friday!
This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. Monday’s show featured a report about a school in Virginia that utilized a pilot program to ban what items during school hours?
2. Monday marked the 107th anniversary of when Manfred von Richthofen was shot down over France in World War I. By what colorful nickname was he known?
3. What 88-year-old pontiff, the first from the Americas to serve in the role, passed away on Monday after 12 years of leading the Roman Catholic Church?
4. An effort originally called Environmental Teach-In later became known as what two-word event, which has been marked every year since 1970?
5. In what African nation, where some people have Portuguese last names, did a recent Carnival event remember the return of former slaves from Brazil in the late 1800s?
6. This week, the U.S. government announced plans to ban what controversial ingredients from the food supply, where they’ve been used since the late 1800s?
7. Workers in the Saudi desert city of Taif have been harvesting pink-colored blooms of what flower, where 800 farms produce an estimated 300 million of them?
8. What nation declared war on the U.S. on April 24, 1898, following American support for Cubans fighting for independence from that country?
9. Friday’s show featured a report about what highly disputed region of southern Asia, over which India and Pakistan have fought numerous wars in previous decades?]
10. What U.S. state grappled with the Jones Road Wildfire this week – a blaze that may be the result of arson and may become the state’s largest wildfire in 20 years?
