Quiz：Domestic and global issues (March)

【明報專訊】◆Domestic issues

1. Which hospital started in mid-March offering 8-hour-a-day accident and emergency services (急症服務)?

A. Tuen Mun Hospital

B. Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital

C. Tin Shui Wai Hospital

D. Tai Po Hospital

2. Who is to host the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards on April 9?

A. Louis Koo

B. Sean Lau

C. Ronald Cheng

D. Nick Cheung

3. The Consumer Council suggests you will take in more ______ than the 2,000-mg maximum daily intake of it which the World Health Organisation has laid down if you eat a portion of baked pork chop rice (焗豬扒飯), a popular fast-food dish.

A. saturated fat

B. sugar

C. calcium

D. sodium

4. Who was elected a Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (中國人民政治協商會議全國委員會) in March this year?

A. Tung Chee-hwa

B. Leung Chun-ying

C. Tsang Yok-sing

D. Victor Li Tzar-kuoi

◆Global issues

5. Park Geun-hye became the _____ South Korean president removed from office when the court upheld the parliament's decision to impeach (彈劾) her.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

6. Which state of the US saw its federal court rule against the travel ban proposed by US president Donald Trump?

A. Texas (得克薩斯州)

B. North Dakota (北達科他州)

C. Hawaii (夏威夷州)

D. Florida (佛羅里達州)

7. _______ is the biggest meat exporter in the world. Hong Kong has suspended meat imports from the country after some of its meat producers had been found to have sold rotten and substandard products for several years.

A. Indonesia

B. Chille

C. Peru

D. Brazil

8. According to the World Happiness Report 2017, ________ is the happiest country in the world, and the unhappiest country in the world is the Central African Republic (中非共和國). (Hint: the country the picture below shows)

A. Canada

B. Norway

C. Denmark

D. New Zealand

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