NewsTracker Answers for week of July 20, 2015

Q: Four Marines and their attacker were killed and three other people were injured last week in attacks on U.S. military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Where is Tennessee?

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Q: The gunman who targeted U.S. military service members was a 24-year-old electrical engineer who had grown up in Chattanooga as part of a conservative Muslim family. Chattanooga is on the border with what state southeast of Tennessee?

A. Georgia

B. Kentucky

C. Missouri

D. Virginia

A. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west.

Q: Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait but moved with his family to the United States as an infant after the start of the Persian Gulf War and became a U.S. citizen. Which neighboring nation invaded Kuwait to start the war?

A. India

B. Iran

C. Iraq

D. Israel

C. Iraq invaded and annexed the oil-rich monarchy of Kuwait in 1990, claiming the territory on its southeast border was a natural part of Iraq carved off as a result of British imperialism. The United States sent troops to protect Kuwait's other neighbor Saudi Arabia, and then it led a international force which quickly pushed Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.

Q: The Chattanooga shooting came nearly a month after another gunman killed nine people in a church about 345 miles east-southeast in Charleston . . .

A. Florida

B. Georgia

C. North Carolina

D. South Carolina

D. Two days after the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, the U..S. Department of Justice said it was “looking at this crime from all angles, including as a hate crime and as an act of domestic terrorism.” Within two hours of the Chattanooga shootings a U.S. attorney said, "We are treating this as an act of domestic terrorism.”

Q: The gunman went to grade school and high school in Chattanooga and earned an engineering degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Chattanooga is the fourth largest city in Tennessee. What is the largest city in the state?

A. Knoxville

B. Memphis

C. Nashville

D. Savannah

B. Memphis is the state's largest city followed closely by the capital Nashville and then Knoxville and Chattanooga. Savannah is in Georgia.