Question 1: What is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2024?
Correct Answer: Polarization
Question 2: After being overthrown, where did Syrian president Bashar al-Assad flee to?
Correct Answer: Russia
Question 3: Which soccer team won the sixth MLS Cup title in franchise history?
Correct Answer: LA Galaxy
Question 4: A NY museum unveiled a dinosaur fossil named ‘Apex.’ What species is it?
Correct Answer: Stegosaurus
Question 5: Which species of butterfly is being proposed for threatened status?
Correct Answer: Monarch
Question 6: The oldest known Ten Commandments tablet is set to be auctioned off. Which time period does it come from?
Correct Answer: 300-800 A.D.
Question 7: Fill in the blank: According to a UN report, Earth has become permanently __ since 1990.
Correct Answer: Drier
Question 8: Albertsons called off a proposed merger with which other grocery store chain?
Correct Answer: Kroger
Question 9: How many teams are competing in the College Football Playoffs this year?
Correct Answer: 12
Question 10: Which college football team hired ex-NFL coaching great Bill Belichick?
Correct Answer: North Carolina