Questions
1. What is the primary goal of Sam’s Club’s new AI-powered “Just Go” program?
a) to increase the number of traditional checkout lanes
b) to create a friction-free shopping experience by eliminating traditional checkouts
c) to replace all employees with AI scanners
d) to introduce a new membership fee for app users
2. Sam’s Club new “Just Go” program uses artificial intelligence (AI) to do all but which one?
a) eliminates the need for receipt checks at the door
b) allow customers to scan items on their phone app as they put them in their carts
c) an AI scanner will verify the items purchased as customers leave
d) load a customer’s purchases into their car
3. Close to 18% of the world’s population is Catholic. The Vatican reported in 2020 that there were _______________ Catholics in the world.
a) 36 million
b) 136 million
c) 1.36 billion
d) 13.6 billion
4. A papal conclave is a gathering of the College of Cardinals (the church’s top bishops from around the globe) convened to elect a new pope. Only those _______________ are eligible to vote in the conclave.
a) who were born in Italy
b) under the age of 80
c) over the age of 80
d) have never been pope before
5. What signals that a new pope has been elected during the conclave?
a) the most senior Cardinal drives around the Vatican in the Pope Mobile shouting “We have a new pope!”
b) bells ringing at St. Peter’s Basilica
c) black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney
d) white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney
6. The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court this week after three separate district court judges:
a) upheld President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship as constitutional
b) dismissed the lawsuits challenging the order
c) issued nationwide injunctions that blocked them from moving forward with a plan to end birthright citizenship
d) none of the above
7. Birthright citizenship is:
a) the automatic granting of citizenship to anyone who applies for it in a country
b) the granting of citizenship to anyone born in a country, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status
c) a policy that grants citizenship only to children of citizens born in a country
d) a temporary residency status given to newborns in a country
8. Following an attack by a Pakistani terrorist group this week, India did all but which one?
a) closed the Taj Mahal
b) gave the Military Advisors in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi a week to exit India
c) suspended a water treaty that will now water into Pakistan
d) ordered all Pakistani nationals currently in the country to leave within 48 hours
9. Twenty-six people, almost all _______________, were killed in Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Kashmir by a Pakistani Islamist jihadist group.
a) tourists
b) soliders
c) terrorists
d) politicians
10. Many countries have condemned the terrorist attack in Kashmir, including:
a) France, Italy and Yemen
b) China, Syria and Israel
c) Russia, Iran and the UAE
d) South Africa, Malaysia and Syria
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