Along with our friends at iCivics, we're wrapping up Civic Learning Week with a trivia question about a national treasure: What's on the back of it? Another one of today's subjects is an international effort to stabilize oil prices. And we're reporting on new findings concerning caterpillar larvae, ants, and rhythm. Plus: a notable patent of Chester Greenwood, an owl literally caught napping in an antique store, an Australian mechanic who's helping his community, and National K9 Veterans Day!
This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. Ryan Hulance, a 13-year-old boy in Britain, has raised more than $24,000 for local charities by collecting and recycling what?
2. Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was recently selected by Iranian clerics to serve in what position?
3. Name one of the two U.S. states that don’t observe daylight-saving time, which began this week when clocks “sprang forward” one hour?
4. The cost of what commodity, which has risen since the conflict in Iran began, is the single biggest factor in the price of gasoline?
5. In what nation, which is located in West Africa and named for the river that runs across it, is a “sea war” taking place involving local fishermen and commercial trawlers?
6. According to a limited study published this week in JAMA Network Open, Americans ages 11-18 spend more than 2 hours daily on smartphones while they are at what location?
7. What volcano erupted again this week – one of dozens of eruptions it’s had over the past year – and shot a fountain of ash as high at 1,000 feet?
8. The Dunlap Broadsides – 26 of which are known to exist today – were the original copies of what historic document?
9. What organization met for the first time in America on March 12, 1912, when Juliette Gordon Low gathered a troop in Savannah, Georgia?
10. In a move that has disrupted international commodity shipments, Iran says it’s closed what strategic waterway, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea?
