Here is your short answer Extemp Central news quiz for this week. Good luck!
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Here is your multiple choice Extemp Central news quiz for this week. Pick well and good luck!
After two days of competition, the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) has come to a close and Ben Constine of Yorktown High School in Virginia is your winner. Constine, who finished second at the George Mason Extemp Round Robin, fourth at the Wake Forest National Early Bird, and was a quarter-finalist at the George Mason University Patriot Games Tournament and at Harvard, scored what many could call an upset in the final round when he defeated last year’s CFL extemp national champion, Dylan Slinger of Lakeville High School in Minnesota, by judges preferences to win the title. Constine is the first Virginia extemper to win a National Points Race tournament since Ariel Schneller won Yale in 2001. Slinger was the only competitor in the top 15 in the National Points Race to make the final round. Texas, which had more qualifiers to this year’s TOC than any other state, had two finalists. Matthew Hinojosa of Flower Mound High School placed third and Susan Czaikowski, who was an NFL semi-finalist in United States Extemp last year and was invited to this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, placed fifth. Matt Rauen of Pennsbury High School in Pennsylvania placed fourth and Emily Bell of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Missouri made her second National Points Race final of the year and placed sixth.
Here are the announced finalists for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions at Northwestern University. These extempers, as well as te finalists, earned foruth tier National Points Race points. Thanks to Robert Sheard for these posting updates.
*Emily Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Missouri)
*Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
*Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
*Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
*Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
Quarter-Finalists for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) have been released. All of these individuals have earned an automatic qualification to next year’s TOC. These come courtesy of Robert Sheard. Some competitors information has not been collected, so if you know who certain people are below, please let us know by commenting in this post or e-mailing me at [email protected].
1. Do fines leveled against economic consultants for publishing inflation figures that differ from the Argentinian government’s official position violate constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression?
2. Is international assistance to Greece only leading to paralysis in the country’s political apparatus?
3. How can Asian governments solve the gap in employment rates between men and women?
4. Will the British monarchy retain its popularity after the death of Queen Elizabeth II?
5. What role will Salafism play in the new Egypt?
6. If Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev both run for the Russian presidency in 2012, who will win?
7. Is Libya on the brink of a food crisis?
8. How will a recent study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies on FARC aid to Rafael Correa’s 2006 presidential campaign impact Ecuador’s relations with Colombia?
9. Will Ahmadinejad resign?
10. Are UN efforts to get information from the United States on the death of Osama bin Laden harming the organization’s reputation?
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Here are the answers to this week’s news quiz.
1. Do train and bus stations need a security overhaul?
2. Who should get the bounty that was placed on Osama bin Laden’s head?
3. Has the Obama administration turned a political victory after the death of Osama bin Laden into a public relations disaster?
4. Will the 2012 presidential election be a referendum on the debt ceiling?
5. Why is the U.S. housing market still reeling?
6. What grade does the Obama administration deserve on border enforcement?
7. Does the GOP presidential field need more governors?
8. Will the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals find President Obama’s healthcare law to be constitutional?
9. Is Microsoft paying too much for Skype?
10. Will the Personal Localized Alert Network significantly help homeland security efforts?
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Here is your Extemp Central short answer news quiz for this week. Good luck!
Here is your Extemp Central multiple choice news quiz for this week. Pick well and good luck!
Here is a special R&D for Osama bin Laden and the military operation that led to his death:
Now, kill his dream from the Economist
In this opinion piece, the Economist argues that Osama bin Laden’s brand of jihad is losing its appeal in the Arab world and that Western governments must remain vigilant to preserve the gains they have made so far.
Osama near Abbottabad, Kabul told Islamabad four years back from the Hindustan Times (India)
This interesting article from the Hindustan Times reveals that Afghan intelligence told the Pakistani government four years ago that Osama bin Laden was living near Abbottabad, but former Pakistani President Pervez Musharaff did nothing about it.
Exclusive: Pakistan had to know bin Laden was there, most Americans say from the Christian Science Monitor
A recent poll shows that 72% of Americans believe that the Pakistani government knew that Osama bin Laden was residing within their country. This could eventually create political pressure to reduce aid to the Pakistani government.
Here are the answers to this week’s news quiz.
1. What impact, if any, will the death of Osama bin Laden have on the 2012 presidential election?
2. Will Indiana’s move to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood be replicated in other states?
3. Does the death of Osama bin Laden mean the end of the war on terrorism?
4. Should states pass legislation to ban obesity lawsuits against restaurants, fast food chains, and grocery stores?
5. Have the events last week destroyed any chance of Donald Trump winning the GOP nomination in 2012?
6. Should the U.S. cut off all aid to Pakistan?
7. How would a renewed push for immigration reform impact President Obama politically?
8. Why does the American job market remain anemic?
9. Will Osama bin Laden’s death increase pressure on the Obama administration to leave Afghanistan?
10. Is the movement for a “Baja Arizona” a pipedream?
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There is still time for extempers that are qualified for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University to register for next week’s event. The deadline is May 7th. You can visit the TOC’s website to access necessary registration information.
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1. Will the one child policy halt China’s emergence as a global superpower?
2. Is Uganda the next Ivory Coast?
3. Will Germany’s decision to lift labor market restrictions on Eastern European workers hurt native born German workers?
4. Does Venezuela’s minimum wage hike go far enough to help workers bear the country’s high inflation rate?
5. Will British voters ditch the country’s winner-take-all electoral system?
6. Has the world lost its appetite for free trade?
7. Why is global press freedom declining?
8. Is NATO overstepping its mandate in Libya?
9. Should Israel withhold taxes collected on behalf of the Palestinian National Authority?
10. How will the killing of Osama bin Laden impact Pakistani politics?
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Note: Due to university commitments this week, some of the regularly updated content, such as R&D’s for this week, may appear intermittently. A large R&D will be posted on Friday, along with the final 2011 Extemp TOC qual board. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.