Here are answers for this week’s version of the Extemp Central news quiz.
Month: February 2012
1. Is the Reserve Bank of India responsible for the slowdown of the Indian economy?
2. If Sctoland holds a referendum on independence, will it pass?
3. How would a Socialist victory in this year’s French presidential election impact the EU’s plans to deal with the euro zone crisis?
4. What accounts for The National Coalition Party’s recent victory in the Finnish presidential election?
5. Should there be more global control of the Internet?
6. Does the decision to let Aung San Suu Kyi show that the Burmese government is genuine about democratic reform?
7. Should the international community be concerned about Egypt’s artifacts if Islamists seize political power?
8. Will the collapse of Romania’s government make other European nations hesitant about adopting austerity programs?
9. Should vetoes be abolished in the UN Security Council?
10. Will Israel attack Iran by June?
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Here are the questions for this week’s short answer version of the Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
Here are the questions for this week’s multiple choice version of the Extemp Central news quiz. Pick well and good luck!
The list of participants in this year’s Texas Capital City Extemp Round Robin have been announced. The tournament will feature sixteen Texas extempers and will take place this weekend. Extemp Central wishes these participants the best of luck and we will provide you with the results of the tournament next week.
*Blade Angel (Lake Travis High School)
*Marcela Arevalo (Klein High School)
*Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School)
*David Engleman (L.C. Anderson High School)
*Cyrus Ghaznavi (The Parish Episcopal School)
*Tushar Madan (Plano West High School)
*Matt Marxer (Byron Nelson High School)
*Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School)
*Diana Pop (Newman Smith High School)
*Sanjana Puri (Flower Mound High School)
*Alex Pustelnyk (Lake Travis High School)
*Tanya Rajan (Newman Smith High School)
*Zachary Stone (Plano West High School)
*Arvind Venkataraman (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Sara Wofford (L.C. Anderson High School)
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Last weekend the Schwan’s Speech Spectacular, a new tournament in the National Points Race, was held and MBA Round Robin Champion Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa bested fifty-nine other extempers to claim the title. Nellans defeated teammate and National Points Race leader Nathan Leys in the final round to earn her third victory in a National Points Race tournament this season. The Schwan’s Speech Spectacular is a fifth tier tournament in the National Points Race, so only the finalists earned National Points Race points. The tournament is also a qualifying tournament for the Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC).
Here are the results of the tournament (Full results can be accessed here):
Here are the results of the Columbia Invitational tournament, held on January 20-22nd at Columbia University in New York, New York. The tournament is a qualifier for the 2012 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University:
Champion: Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
2nd: Gabriel Ferrante (Iona Preparatory, New York)
3rd: Joe Calder (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
4th: Zach Klein (Montville High School, New Jersey)
5th: Camille Petersen (Villa Walsh Academy, New Jersey)
6th: Jake Ether, Half Hollow Hills High School, New York)
7th: Shreyas Halvaldar, Half Hollow Hills High School, New York)
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Here are the full results from the Barkley Forum:
The James Logan MLK Invitational, which is a new addition to this year’s National Points Race, was held several weeks ago in Union City, California. The tournament splits the field into United States and International Extemp categories. Mike Zhu of Dougherty Valley High School in California won U.S. Extemp and John Cherian of Bellarmine College Prep in California won International Extemp. Bellarmine College Prep led all of the other schools in the tournament by placing the top three competitors in International Extemp and having a finalist in U.S. Extemp. Since extempers cannot enter both categories at MLK, Extemp Central does not need to worry about double counting like we do at Florida Blue Key or St. Mark’s. As a result, all finalists in each category earn points, although teams are still capped, with their top three finishers counting for points for the National Team Points Race.
Here are the results of the James Logan High School MLK Invitational (full results can be found here):
1. Will David Cameron’s decision to adopt a conciliatory approach on EU fiscal matters hurt his standing among British conservatives?
2. Would Syria’s fall be a major blow to Hezbollah?
3. Will Netanyahu see out his term as Israeli prime minister?
4. Is state capitalism the Marxism of the 21st century?
5. Will France’s Constitutional Court find that a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide is unconstitutional?
6. How can the AU become a more efficient international organization?
7. Should Abdoulaye Wade have been allowed to run for re-election in Senegal?
8. What message is the UK sending to Argentina by sending Prince William on a tour of duty of the Falkland Islands?
9. Have liberals been outmanuevered in the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution?
10. Will Russia back the UN draft resolution against Syria?
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Here are the answers to this week’s news quiz.