Shoeless Trivia: Episode 29 (Current Events)

It was bound to happen eventually. I screwed up the episode numbering Monday and Tuesday. I’ve fixed the titles but left the wonky links alone.

It’s Wednesday. Current events. Ho hum.

1. Rachel Morrison just became the first ever female Oscar nominee in what category for her work on the movie Mudbound?
2. Jacinda Ardern recently announced that she is pregnant. NBD, except that its makes her the first world leader expected to give birth while in office. What country is she the Prime Minister of?
3. It won’t let you catch a Charizard in front of your office or watch Game of Thrones on your PS4, but a new innovation that debuted in Seattle this week will let you walk out with a bunch of bananas and a gourmet panini without standing in a checkout line. What’s it called?
4. This week Donald Trump, Angela Merkle, Emmanuel Macron, and many other world political and economic leaders are attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting that is being held in what Swiss resort town?
5. Neil Diamond announced that he is retiring from touring in the wake of being diagnosed with what degenerative condition?

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1. cinematography
2. New Zealand
3. Amazon Go
4. Davos
5. Parkinson’s disease