For those extempers who want to test their skill, here is the short answer version of this week’s news quiz!
Month: October 2009
According to reports from Yale, Aaron Lutkowitz of Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee is the winner of
Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California took second place and Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina took third.
When full results come in, Extemp Central will post them and update the National Points Race.
Last weekend, we showed you The Economist’s “Did You Know 4.0” video. This week, we spotlight another internet novelty as part of a new series called AGD. Similar to the attention-getting devices used in speeches, we’ll spotlight news, novelties, and nonsense around the internet each week that should catch your attention and maybe even your audience’s as well.
Dragons in Congress, Michael Vick returns to the NFL, and geese get a no-fly zone in NYC.
They’re all part of this week’s headlines, and they’re also featured in the latest installment of auto-tune the news.
A 24-year-old Brooklyn musician named Michael Gregory has combined a number of evening news broadcast clips and turned them into an R&B/hip-hop/technco-music extravaganza called Auto-Tune the News.
Time magazine sums up the series and what auto-tune is for the uninformed:
For those unaware, Auto-Tune is a software program that alters singers’ voices to achieve perfect pitch. Used too much — or when they’re not actually singing because, y’know, they’re on the news — it makes people sound electronic. Cher was the first to use Auto-Tune in her 1998 hit “Believe,” and since then everyone from Kanye West to Faith Hill has gotten by with a little technical assistance. (Auto-Tune isn’t always a way to cheat; Daft Punk turned it into another instrument when they wanted to go all futuristic/animated in their video, “One More Time”).
The group has produced several videos in the series for the enjoyment of “shawteys” everywhere. You can find them all on their YouTube channel.
This weekend the second national circuit tournament in the Extemp Central National Points Race kicks off at Yale University in New
Good luck to those competing this weekend and remember, 70 points are awarded to the winner of this prestigious event.
Here are the answers to this week’s extemp news quiz. I have used the multiple choice template so as best to show the answers for the multiple choice/short answer versions. The answers are in bold. Check back Monday for the next Extemp Central news quiz!