Current Events Week One

1.What award-winning actor died last weekend of an apparent drug overdose?

2. What Southern state now has a severe weather task force after two inches of snow last week totally paralyzed its largest city?

Georgia

3. With the Winter Olympics starting in Sochi this week, the Russians have some challenges. Which is NOT a problem the media have reported? a. The host nation is being accused of shooting stray dogs. b. Some of the hotels are not ready. c. Russia’s anti-gay laws have upset human rights groups. d. All are issues the Russians are facing.

a

4. The big named winter storm this week is ______________________. (HINT: The last one was Maximus.)

Minimus

5. A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week is exploring privacy in the digital age, especially related to credit cards. Name one of the two retail companies whose executives have been testifying because recent security breaches put millions of their customers at risk.

Target

6. What recent sporting event broke records for the most watched TV event in U.S. history?

Super Bowl

7. In a strange and some say unbelievable story this week, a man was found in the Marshall Islands after doing what?

Drifted there from Mexico

8. What social network site turned 10 this week?

Facebook