NewsTracker Answers for week of May 29, 2017

Q: A suicide bomber killed at least 22 people, including an eight-year-old girl, at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in the city of Manchester in Northern England. Where is England?

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Q: The bomber was identified as British citizen Salman Abedi, whose parents had immigrated from the North African nation of . . .

A. Iraq

B. Libya

C. Syria

D. Yemen


B. Libya is nation of about 6.4 million people that is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. Iraq, Syria and Yemen are located in western Asia.


Q: Police investigating the bombing said they had arrested at least 11 people in the United Kingdom which includes England and . . .

A. Northern Ireland

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. All of the above


D. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland includes England, Scotland and Wales on the island of Great Britain and part of the island of Ireland. Police said they had  apprehended a "large part of the network" involved in the Manchester attack. But a newspaper reported that 23,000 jihahist extremists had been identified as living in Britain.


Q: During their investigation of the attack, British authorities cited leaks when the stopped sharing intelligence with which nation?

A. France

B. Germany

C. Ireland

D. United States


D. British officials were upset when U.S. news media identified the suicide bomber before Abedi’s name was officially released.


Q: The Islamic State claimed responsibility for last week’s concert bombing. Nearly 21 years earlier, Manchester’s city center was devastated by bombing by the IRA. Where was the IRA based?

A. Iran

B. Iraq

C. Ireland

D. Istanbul


C. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated a 3,300-pound bomb in Manchester in June 1996 as part of a terror campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland and unite it with the Irish Republic. No one was killed in that explosion because an IRA warning led to the evacuation of 75,000 in the 90 minutes before the blast. But 200 people were injured.