MP&F Current Events Quiz for Feb 2023

On Jan. 2, Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, collapsed after making a tackle during a Monday night game. In response, the N.F.L. made the unprecedented move to do what?

Cancel the Super Bowl

Create a commission to study player health and safety

Postpone and then cancel the game

Outlaw tackling next season

On Jan. 7, Representative Kevin McCarthy won the election to be the new __________ on the 15th ballot, the longest such fight since before the Civil War, giving major concessions to far-right holdouts.

chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

speaker of the House

chief justice of the Supreme Court

Senate minority whip

Thousands of supporters of Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, stormed the country’s Congress and presidential offices over _________.

a bill outlawing all deforestation in the Amazon region

false claims of a rigged election

the treatment of Indigenous groups

the end of Covid restriction policies.

A rapid string of punishing storm systems, known as atmospheric rivers, brought extreme amounts of rain and snow to California during January, but the sudden deluge has not made up for three years of historic ___________..

drought

earthquakes

landslides

tornadoes

Three of the articles below about ChatGPT, the powerful new A.I. chatbot, were recently published in The New York Times. One is from the satirical site The Onion. Which is the fake news story?

A New Chat Bot is a 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business

Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach

ChatGPT Forced to Take Bar Exam Even Though Dream Was to Be A.I. Art Bot

Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I.

“M3gan,” a campy PG-13 horror movie starring __________, beat box office predictions during its opening weekend. Universal Pictures, which released the horror comedy, has already fast-tracked a sequel.

an alien ghost

a vengeful social media influencer

a mean-girl robot

a satanic grandmother

Mass shootings in January shook the United States, where such shootings have become tragically too familiar. The deadliest took place on Jan. 21 in ________________, a city with a thriving Asian American community where a gunman killed 11 people and wounded nine others inside a popular ballroom dance hall.

Des Moines, Iowa

Monterey Park, Calif.

Orlando, Fla.

Topeka, Kan.

Five police officers in ______________ were charged on Jan. 26 with second-degree murder for the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, after a traffic stop that escalated into what the authorities have described as a display of staggering brutality.

Chicago

Oklahoma City

Memphis

Seattle

BONUS: On Jan. 23, scientific researchers published a surprising report suggesting that Earth’s inner core may have ________________.

BONUS: "_______________," the hotly anticipated memoir by Prince Harry, has captivated people across the world. It has also become one of the year’s biggest books.