Questions

1. Almost _______________ people filled Madison Square Garden in New York City for a Trump rally on Sunday.
a) 200
b) 2,000
c) 20,000
d) 20,000,000

2. The most famous speaker at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally was:
a) Mark Zuckerberg
b) Elon Musk
c) Jeff Bezos
d) Michelle Obama

3. The Senate is currently held by Democrats. They have a 51-49 seat majority because:
a) 3 independents caucus with the Democrats
b) there are more Democrats than Republicans in the Senate
c) there are more Republicans than Democrats in the Senate
d) 3 Republicans caucus with the Democrats

4. Michigan and Maryland's close presidential races are significant because both states:
a) have not elected a Republican to the Senate in 30-40 years
b) have more registered Republicans than Democrats
c) have not elected a Democrat to the Senate in 30-40 years
d) have more undecided voters than registered Democrats or Republicans

5. Meta has suspended several accounts run by Florida college student Jack Sweeney that monitored the private jet flights of famous people, including _______________.
a) Kamala Harris
b) Taylor Swift
c) Michelle Obama
d) Tim Walz

6. Sweeney pointed out that similar flight-tracking accounts publicizing information on _______________ were not suspended. The accounts were eventually deactivated after another publication pointed out the hypocrisy of Meta allowing those tracking the two were the sole flight tracking accounts that were active.
a) Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
b) Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
c) Bill and Hillary Clinton
d) Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis

7. A U.S. Navy Reserve officer was sentenced to _______________ for his role in a years-long bribery scheme involving Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan citizens.
a) 200 years in prison
b) 20 years in prison
c) 2 1/2 years in prison
d) zero prison time

8. Pittmann signed over 20 letters in which he claimed that: (CHOOSE 3)
a) he personally knew and had supervised the Afghan national visa applicants while they worked as translators in support of the U.S. military and NATO
b) based on his personal knowledge of the applicants, he believed they did not pose any threat to the national security of the United States
c) the applicants’ lives were in jeopardy because the Taliban considered them to be traitors
d) he didn't personally know any of the applicants but hoped they wouldn't cause any trouble

9. An unnamed University of Michigan student who is _______________ illegally voted in Ann Arbor on Sunday and is being charged with two crimes.
a) from China
b) not a U.S. citizen
c) neither a) nor b)
d) both a) and b)

10. The Chinese student's crime was discovered when:
a) he contacted the local clerk’s office, asking if he could somehow get his ballot back
b) police discovered texts to Chinese President Jinping on his phone
c) he took a selfie with his ballot and posted it to TikTok
d) the Secretary of State's program to weed out illegal and fraudulent votes flagged him as illegally voting