NewsTracker Answers for week of July 23, 2018

Q: Police in Luxembourg have added two Tesla electric cars to their fleet, hoping that their rapid acceleration capacity will help them nab more criminals and speed offenders while also trimming the tiny country’s carbon emissions. Luxembourg is surrounded by Belgium, France and Germany. Where is it on this map?

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Q: One of the key concerns surrounding electric vehicles – the need to regularly recharge their batteries – is less of a problem in Luxembourg, which measures only 60 miles from north to south, police said. Which nation is on Luxembourg’s northern border?

A. Belgium

B. France

C. Germany

A. Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France to the south.

Q: As the world’s fifth richest nation on a per person basis, Luxembourg can well afford the two $116,450 Tesla Model S cars it purchased for police. Which even smaller European nation has the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per person?

A. Andorra

B. Jersey

C. Liechtenstein

D. Monaco

C. Liechtenstein has a GDP equal to $139,000 for each of its 38,244 people, according to the CIA World Factbook. In Luxembourg, it is $109,110 for each of its 594,130 people. All of these tiny, wealthy nations – Andorra, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Monaco – have been criticized as tax havens.

Q: Luxembourg aims to make 10 percent of the cars on its roads electric and hybrid vehicles as part of a climate agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. That agreement was reached during a conference in which European capital?

A. London

B. Paris

C. Rome

D. Vienna

B. Luxembourg is one of nearly 200 nations to have signed the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to limit global warming. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement last year.

Q: Luxembourg was a founding member of the United Nations, NATO and Europe’s common market which became the European Union (EU). Which nation is now negotiating to leave the EU?

A. Austria

B. Hungary

C. Italy

D. United Kingdom

D. The United Kingdom – England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – voted in 2016 to leave the EU and is still negotiating the terms of its exit. President Trump recently imposed tariffs on EU goods and called the economic and political union of 28 nations a U.S. “foe” just before he met with Vladimir Putin of Russia.