Here is the short answer version of this week’s news quiz, with a heavy focus this week on international issues.
1. Who won the Nobel peace prize?
2. Last week, Muammar Qaddafi angered the U.S. by demanding the UN Security Council take a vote on the Goldstone report, which is about which conflict?
3. What is the name of the anti-war women’s group that has called for a withdrawal from Afghanistan?
4. Which country recently voted “yes” on the Lisbon treaty?
5. Which former British prime minister is considered as a candidate for the future presidency of the EU?
6. Which S.C. justices health has been questioned after being hospitalized several weeks ago?
7. Who is the prime minister who lost his parliamentary immunity from prosecution last week?
8. Last week the Department of Homeland security stripped immigration policing powers from a sheriff in which state?
9. Indonesian legislators recently passed a law last week that weakened a governmental institution known as the KPK. What is the role of this institution?
10. On Sunday, al Qaeda militants attacked the headquarters of what country’s army?