Newsflashcard December 6, 2024

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What city is home to Notre Dame, the 860-year-old cathedral recently renovated after a fire in 2019 destroyed its roof and spire?

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Paris

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What narrow, worm-like fish are critically endangered in Europe as dams and unsustainable fishing threaten their populations?

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eels

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A famous art piece that recently sold for $6 million features what fruit duct taped to a wall?

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banana

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What company launched an artificial intelligence-powered shopping cart to change the way people buy groceries?

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Instacart

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Located in Peru, what is the largest city in the world that can only be reached by air or by water because it is surrounded by Amazon rainforest and rivers?

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Iquitos

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Facial recognition technology is raising concerns over infringing on what right of individuals to be free from observation?

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privacy

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Coral may look like aquatic plants, but are actually what type of cold-blooded animal with no backbone?

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invertebrate

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South Korea’s president declared martial law this week, granting what body temporary rule during an emergency?

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military

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What is the term used to describe foods that have been significantly altered from their original form and contain many ingredients like additives not normally used to make food at home?

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ultraprocessed

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And from Friday’s show, it turns out the phenomena known as ‘cosmic fireflies’ are actually just thousands of what man-made space technology?

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satellites