Monday 24 July 2017

Post Quizzes | Know Your News: A week of important numbers

Can you guess the author by his or her "favorite" words?; Can you tell fake news when you see it?;
 
Post Quizzes
 
 
A week of important numbers
1
Who said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation was "very unfair to the president"?
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. President Trump.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer, before he resigned. Donald Trump Jr.
2
The Trump administration has decided to end a covert CIA program to arm and train:
A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Moderate Syrian rebels.
Iraqi counterterrorism forces. South Korean special forces.
3
Iran sentenced an American to 10 years for espionage. He is a graduate student at which university? 
Stanford.  Yale. 
Princeton. Columbia. 
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Can you guess the author by his or her "favorite" words?
1
Civility, fancying, imprudence
Agatha Christie  Henry James
Jane Austen D. H. Lawrence
2
Kinsmen, abomination, compound
Kurt Vonnegut Chinua Achebe
Charles Dickens Suzanne Collins
3
Tram, bello, hee
James Joyce Cormac McCarthy
F. Scott Fitzgerald J.R.R. Tolkein
Can you tell fake news when you see it?
1
Do you think this photo has been digitally altered?
Yes No
2
Do you think this photo has been digitally altered?
Yes No
3
Do you think this photo has been digitally altered?
Yes No
 
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