NewsTracker Answers for week of Mar. 11, 2024

Q: Czech farmers protesting environmental rules and imported crops dumped manure in front of government offices and blocked streets in the nation’s capital. Where is the Czech Republic, a small country in the center of Europe?

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Q: What is the capital of the Czech Republic, which is also called Czechia?

A. Bratislava

B. Budapest

C. Prague

D. Vienna

C. Prague is the capital and largest city in Czechia with a population of about 1.3 million people. Prague’s economy employs about 20 percent of the nation’s workers.

Q: Farmers across the European Union (EU) have taken to the streets in recent months urging tariffs to be reimposed on farm products from Ukraine. Farmers blocked the border to Ukraine in which of country bordering the Czech Republic?

A. Austria

B. Germany

C. Poland

D. Slovakia

C. Poland to northeast of Czechia and Slovakia to the southeast also border Ukraine which has be fighting invading Russian troops for two years. Last month, Polish farmers used tractors and other farm equipment to block Ukraine grain shipments. Austria is south of Czechia and Germany is to the west and northwest.

Q: What share of the EU workers are employed in agriculture?

A. 16%

B. 12%

C. 8%

D. 4%

D. According to the World Bank, agriculture employs only 4 percent of all EU workers. About 3 percent of Czechs and 8 percent of Poles work in agriculture. Worldwide, about a quarter of the labor force works in agriculture. Much of the agricultural workforce is in poorer nations. As countries get richer, the share of the population working in agriculture tends to decline.

Q: The former nation of Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic in 1992. Czechoslovakia was first created after which war?

A. Thirty Years' War

B. World War I

C. World War ll

D. Cold War

B. Czechoslovakia was created in 1918 during collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of World War I.