NewsTracker Answers for week of June 01, 2020

Q: Video of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a handcuffed black man, George Floyd, for nearly nine minutes as he was dying has sparked violence in the Minnesota city and protests in every state. Where is Minnesota?

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Q: Protests turned violent in Minneapolis where a police station and many businesses were burned. The violence also spread to the state capital . . .

A. Saint Paul

B. Rochester

C. Duluth

D. Fargo


A. Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota, and its neighboring “Twin City” Saint Paul is the state’s capital. The Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area is the most populous in the state with about 3.6 million people. Saint Paul, Rochester and Duluth are the second, third and fourth largest cities. Fargo is across the state border in North Dakota.


Q: There were news reports of protests over Floyd’s death in every state - many were peaceful and some were quite small. Two men were arrested after confronting protesters with a gun during a peaceful demonstration in Manchester, the largest city in which New England state?

A. Connecticut

B. Maine

C. New Hampshire

D. Vermont


C. As Manchester police officers, including the police chief, joined protesters in a moment of silence, a pickup truck flying a Trump 2020 flag and Confederate flag with a skull in the center drove up the street with the driver yelling “Trump!” After someone threw a water bottle at the truck, two men jumped out with a gun and were quickly arrested.


Q: While some protests were peaceful, many turned violent with widespread damage, arrests, injuries and some deaths as cities imposed curfews and called in national guard troops. At least five people have died during the protests including two in Indiana’s largest city . . .

A. Fort Wayne

B. Indianapolis

C. Kokomo

D. South Bend


B. Police in Indianapolis, the state’s capital and largest city, said two people were killed Saturday night in separate incidents in the city’s downtown. It was unclear whether the shooting deaths were related to protests downtown that had turned violent, police said.


Q: Where else in the world has Floyd’s death sparked protests?

A. Berlin

B. London

C. Toronto

D. All of the above


D. In London and Berlin, thousands of people gathered outside U.S. embassies to protest with signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Stop killing Us” and chants of “I can’t Breath.” In Toronto, the protest included outrage at the recent death of a black woman who the police said fell from her balcony after officers responded to reports of a “domestic incident.”