NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 21, 2019

Q: The city of Barcelona ground to a halt Saturday amid a general strike and the fifth day of protests over long prison sentences for leaders of a movement seeking a separate nation in the Catalonia region of Spain. Where is Spain?

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Q: Barcelona is the largest city in the Catalonia region in the northeast corner of Spain. The region borders which nation to the north?

A. France

B. Gibraltar

C. Morocco

D. Portugal


A. France and the tiny nation of Andorra are north of Catalonia, a wealthy region that is home to about 7.5 million people, with their own language, parliament, flag and anthem. The jailed leaders were convicted of illegally holding a referendum on independence in 2017 and then declaring Catalonia was breaking away from Spain.


Q: In addition to sentencing the nine independence leaders from nine to 13 years in prison, Spain’s Supreme Court also issued a warrant for Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont, who has taken refuge in the European “Low Country” of . . .

A. Austria

B. Belgium

C. Liechtenstein

D. Switzerland


B. Puigdemont told reporters last week that Belgian authorities had allowed him to remain free without bail after the court targeted him with a European arrest warrant. The Low Countries are in a coastal lowland region in northwestern Europe that includes Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and small parts of France and Germany. Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland are in the Alpine Mountains.


Q: Barcelona is capital of Catalonia and the second most populous city in Spain. Spain’s largest city is its capital ...

A. Cordoba

B. Granada

C. Madrid

D. Seville


C. Madrid in central Spain has a population of about 3.2 million people compared with about 1.6 million people in Barcelona.


Q: Barcelona is on what body of water?

A. Adriatic Sea

B. Aegean Sea

C. Levantine Sea

D. Mediterranean Sea


D. The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar off the southern tip of Spain. It is almost completely surrounded by the lands of southern Europe, southwestern Asia and North Africa. The Adriatic, Aegean and Lavantine seas are all subdivisions of the Mediterranean that are far east of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula.