March 29, 2024
A First for Snowboarding
The first thing we show you today will leave your head spinning -- just like it did for snowboarder "Kuba" Hroneš. We're updating you on a bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland and showing you how men in Colombia are learning new skills at home. Also featured: Americans' planned spending for Easter and some artistic (and delicious!) variations on Easter eggs.
This Friday's news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. In a first for medicine, a genetically modified animal kidney was recently transplanted into a living person in Massachusetts. What kind of animal was the source of this kidney?
2. In what capital city was a terrorist attack recently carried out at a concert hall, which was set on fire during the assault?
3. What British royal recently announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer following a planned abdominal surgery in January?
4. Name the U.S. aerospace company whose CEO, Dave Calhoun, announced this week that he’d resign following numerous issues with the company’s passenger planes.
5. What is the name of the debilitating neurological disease that attacks the body’s myelin and has been diagnosed in more than 2.8 million people worldwide?
6. What U.S. port has been closed indefinitely following an incident in which a container ship destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this week?
7. What company is being sued by the U.S. government for allegedly monopolizing the smartphone market, though the company says it will “vigorously defend” itself in court?
8. Thursday’s show reported on tensions between the governments of what two countries, historic allies that have had some disagreements concerning the latest war in the Middle East?
9. As featured Thursday: The nickname of a 10th Century Scandinavian king with a particular health ailment is also the namesake of what technological feature on modern-day devices?
10. March 29 marked the 51st anniversary of when the last U.S. combat troops left what country, which is also the name of the conflict in which they were fighting?
