NewsTracker Answers for week of June 24, 2019

Q: While the media raised alarms about the deaths of at least 11 Americans in the Dominican Republic over the past year, authorities say the deaths are not out of the ordinary for a popular tourist destination. Where is the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean Sea?

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Q: The tourist deaths were ruled to be from natural causes, but there was speculation that tainted alcohol may have been involved in one death. Australian tourists were warned about tainted booze on the island of Bali. Bali is part of which country?

A. Australia

B. Indonesia

C. Malaysia

D. Thailand

B. Bali is them main tourist destination in the southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. Tourism-related business makes up 80 percent of its economy.

Q: In addition to alarming reports about deaths, famed Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was shot and wounded at a restaurant in the Dominican Republic’s capital. What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?

A. Havana

B. Kingston

C. San Juan

D. Santo Domingo

D. According to Dominican authorities, the intended target of the shooting was a friend of Ortiz who was sitting near him in the Santo Domingo restaurant. They said the believe that the shooter mistook Ortiz, a Dominican native, for the man he had been hired to kill.

Q: The barrage of bad news has caused frustration in the Dominican Republic, where tourism accounts for about 22 percent of the economy. Tourism recently suffered a major blow on the Caribbean’s largest island . . .

A. Cuba

B. Hispaniola

C. Jamaica

D. Puerto Rico

A. Earlier this month, President Donald Trump and his administration ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to cut off cash to the island’s communist government.

Q: Hispaniola is the second largest island in the Caribbean and the most populous. The Dominican Republic shares the island with what impoverished nation?

A. Aruba

B. Bermuda

C. Haiti

D. Saint Martin

C. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and 15th poorest nation in the world with a gross domestic product (GDP) per person of $1,800 a year. With a GDP per person of $99,400, the Atlantic islands of Bermuda are the richest in the Western Hemisphere and sixth richest in the world. Saint Martin and Aruba are a couple of the wealthiest Caribbean islands