NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 21, 2024

Q: More than 150 people were killed in Nigeria last week after an overturned fuel tanker exploded, police said. Many of the inferno victims had rushed in to collect gasoline spilling from the tanker when it erupted. Where is the west African nation of Nigeria?

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Q: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with 236 million people, and it is expected to grow to 392 million people in 2050. What percentage of Nigeria’s people live in poverty?

A. 20%

B. 30%

C. 40%

D. 50%

C. According to the CIA World Factbook, 40.1% of Nigeria’s population has income below national poverty line. And, fuel prices have more than tripled over the last year as the government moved to end a fuel subsidy that gave Nigerians access to some of the cheapest gasoline in Africa.

Q: Hundreds of Nigerians were killed in a 2006 explosion the country’s largest city as they collected fuel from fuel pipeline that had been punctured by thieves. What is largest and most populous city in Nigeria?

A. Abuja

B. Cape Town

C. Kinshasa

D. Lagos

D. With a metropolitan population of 21 million, Lagos in southwestern Nigeria is the most populous urban area in Africa. Lagos also was the capital of Nigeria before the government moved in 1991 to Abuja near the center of the country.

Q: Poverty has driven many others to race into danger to collect fuel leaking from overturned tankers, including a 2021 explosion that killed 90 at least people in the poorest country in the Americas, What is that nation?

A. Cuba

B. Haiti

C. Nicaragua

D. Venezuela

B. The explosion in Cap Haitien, Haiti, also injured 120 people. Still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier, Haiti was unable to adequately treat victims of the explosion with its hospitals under-supplied and in disarray.

Q: At least 230 people died in 2010 as they gathered to collect fuel from an overturned tanker in one of the poorest nations in the world, the Democratic Republic of Congo. The king of which country once owned the area of DR Congo as his private property?

A. Belgium

B. Italy

C. Prussia

D. United Kingdom

A. From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. His administrators enforced extreme measures to collect natural rubber for export, resulting in a population decline estimated somewhere between 1.5 million and 13 million people.