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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Climate conference kicks off in Turkey

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How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.

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A Gen Z immigrant, a lumberjack, a Muslim, pastors and nurses are among newcomers heading to Congress

Voters nationwide last week changed the face of Congress in dramatic ways. Newcomers taking their oaths of office in less than two months include the first Black female governor, the first Gen Z woman in Congress and the first openly gay man to ...

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GOP reckons with midterm losses

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Hackers are gaining control over Europe’s refrigerators


Hackers have gained control over the refrigeration systems within Europe's supermarkets and a French blood bank. The refrigeration systems are all connected to the same controller, which allows the hackers to access all the refrigerators within the b...

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This week's word in the news: COERCE

DEFINITION:

To persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do.

FOUND IN THE NEWS:
Lina Kahn, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, said that Google was using its “search monopoly to coerce schools” into adopting its AI.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- 11/09/2026

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