NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 14, 2019

Q: President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador last week moved the seat of his government from Quito, the capital, to the coastal city of Guayaquil more than 150 miles away in an attempt to protect his government from large protests against austerity spending cuts. Where is small nation of Ecuador in northwestern South America?

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Q: The austerity measures were imposed to slash the nation’s staggering debt. Ecuador also is coping with a flood of refugees from economic collapse and violent protests in what larger nation in northeastern South America?

A. Argentina

B. Chile

C. Peru

D. Venezuela


D. More than 4 million people have fled the violence, food shortages and hyperinflation in Venezuela. Millions of them crossed into Colombia on Ecuador’s northern border. Many continued into Ecuador, where hundreds of thousands stayed, while others went south to Peru, Chile and Argentina.


Q: South America is not the only part of the world hit by street protests. More than a thousand climate protesters were arrested in the European Union’s largest capital city . . .

A. Berlin

B. London

C. Madrid

D. Paris


B. Protesters organized by the group Extinction Rebellion have held demonstrations across the British capital including London City Airport, where one protester lay on top of airliner last week. Britain also has been struggling with plans to leave the European Union.


Q: Last week, the National Basketball Association got caught up in a controversy over massive protests in which east Asian city?

A. Hong Kong

B. Manila

C. Singapore

D. Tokyo


A. China lashed back at the NBA after a Houston Rockets official wrote a tweet in support of Hong Kong protesters demanding democracy and more independence from China’s central government. There were quick apologies from the official and the NBA which has deals in China worth more than $1 billion.


Q: More than a hundred protesters have been killed this month during demonstrations by young men against government corruption and economic struggles in what southwest Asian nation?

A. Algeria

B. Egypt

C. Iraq

D. Tunisia


C. Iraq government forces have killed more than a hundred wounded thousands of protesters demanding major political changes and an end to corruption. Most of the protesters are unemployed young men, many born since the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia are in north Africa.