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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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South Korean worker cleared of 70-cent snack theft

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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.

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Say goodbye to new pennies, a coin that outlived its purpose after 232 years

We all have pennies and rarely use them, right? Plus, they cost the U.S. Mint more than three cents each to make, and most wind up stored indefinitely in jars, pails, piggy banks, Big Gulp cups and drawers or forgotten in sofa cushions, vehicle ...

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Is yelling ‘traitor’ dangerous noise?

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'Get off the road' - Drivers warn of hazards during snow storm


At a rest stop in Indiana, several truck drivers stopped because it was difficult to see the road during a nighttime winter snowstorm over the weekend. Darren Duncan was headed to Minnesota when he stopped to wait for the weather to improve. "Couldn'...

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This week's word in the news: ACQUAINTANCE

DEFINITION:

A person one knows slightly, but who is not a close friend.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.
The Los Angeles Times -- 12/01/2025

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