Nearly a week after southern Africa was hit by one of the worst natural disasters in decades, rescue workers were struggling to reach the victims.
In grappling with the scope of the devastation, aid groups estimated that Cyclone Idai destroyed 90 percent of Beira, a port city of half a million people in which country?
Kenya
Mozambique
Namibia
Zimbabwe
European regulators fined which tech company 1.5 billion euros, or about $1.7 billion, for antitrust violations?
Amazon
Uber
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first drug specifically designed to treat depression in which group?
The elderly
New mothers
Pets
Teenagers
An unexpected announcement by John Bercow disrupted Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans, less than two weeks before the deadline for Britain to withdraw from the European Union.
Which position does Mr. Bercow hold?
Brexit secretary
Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
President of the European Council
Speaker of the House of Commons
A company whose product is a symbol of Americana began trading shares publicly for the second time in its 165-year history.
Name the company.
Coca-Cola
Colt
Hershey
Levi Strauss
After 30 years in power, Nursultan Nazarbayev made the surprise announcement that he was stepping down as the president of which country, a former Soviet Republic?
Azerbaijan
Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
The musician and sound pioneer Dick Dale died last Saturday at 81. His hit song “Misirlou” re-entered the mainstream in 1994 when it appeared on the soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino’s film “Pulp Fiction.”
Mr. Dale was known as the King of which type of music?
Bluegrass banjo
Latin drums
Ragtime piano
Surf guitar
Britain’s National Portrait Gallery announced that it would not accept a long-discussed $1.3 million donation from the charitable arm of the Sackler family.
The decision is the latest sign of the changing climate in the art world toward the family, because of its association with what?
Historical ties to the slave trade
The opioid crisis
The smuggling of artifacts
Sweatshops
Karen Uhlenbeck was announced as this year’s recipient for the Abel Prize.
She is the first woman to ever win the $700,000 award, which honors work in which field?
Economics
Law
Mathematics
Political science
Fox News removed a prime-time show after its host questioned the patriotism of a Muslim lawmaker.
Name the host.
Tucker Carlson
Ainsley Earhardt
Sean Hannity
Jeanine Pirro
For the first time since 2006, which team did not earn a No. 1 seed in the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament this year?
Connecticut
Louisville
Maryland
Stanford