You vs. the News: GZERO’s Weekly News Quiz, March 21, 2025

Have you stayed atop GZERO’s news coverage this week? Here’s your chance to prove it.

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President Donald Trump talks to the media next to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, with a Tesla car in the background, at the White House on March 11, 2025.

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Elon Musk may have a big day ahead. On Friday, according to the New York Times, he’ll be made privy to war plans for a US military conflict with China. But President Donald Trump has denied that Musk will be briefed on China during his visit.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon smiles during the signing event for an executive order to shut down the Department of Education next to U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, March 20, 2025.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday stripping away much of the Department of Education, but he stopped short of dismantling it completely. On Friday, he announced that the federal student loan portfolio and the department’s “special needs” programs were being moved to other federal agencies.

Canadian PM Mark Carney
Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Reuters

The countdown is on! At noon on Sunday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to dissolve parliament and send voters into an election campaign that promises to be one of the most consequential — and hotly contested — in recent history.

Human rights activists hold a placard reading 'Military is a Killer of Women' during Aksi Kamisan, or Thursday's Protest, in front of the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on March 20, 2025.
Afriadi Hikmal/NurPhoto via Reuters

Indonesian activists are protesting a new law allowing active-duty military members to serve an expanded role in the civilian government — a move they warn could bring back the days of military repression under strongman leader Suharto.

Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas arrives at the Consilium building in Brussels, Belgium, on March 20, 2025.
Aleksy Witwicki/Sipa USA

Though European leaders have been excluded from Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine, meetings on Thursday in Brussels and London aimed to demonstrate Europe’s continuing commitment to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs to repel Russian invaders.

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Jess Frampton

Donald Trump has not yet made the traditional congratulatory call to Mark Carney, but the US president is not calling Carney “governor” – like he did with Justin Trudeau. Which would be ironic, considering the Canadian PM once served as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. Could it be that Trump had a special desire to bully Trudeau and will take a different approach with his successor? Stephen Maher reports ...

Outgoing GZERO Publisher Evan Solomon
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GZERO’s Evan Solomon announced on Thursday that he will be returning to Canada and running for Mark Carney’s Liberals. A former Canadian broadcaster, he has been GZERO’s publisher since 2022.