Here is this week’s short answer news quiz. Good luck!


1. This was the value in exports that President Obama is said to have gotten Chinese President Hu Jintao to agree to at last week’s summit.

2. This political commentator is no longer employed after failing to agree with his network on a contract.

3. Maoist political forces in Nepal relinquished control over this in order to join a special governmental committee.

4. This country is weighing whether to try pirates from Somalia after capturing them from a chemical freight ship last week.

5. This European nation held a presidential election on Sunday.

6. Which party is the junior coalition partner in the Irish government?

7. A teen drama on this channel has drawn on the ire of the Parents Television Council and led to the withdrawal of advertising dollars.

8. The CEO of this company will lead President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

9. An abortion doctor from this state was arrested last week and has prompted a new national discussion about the subject.

10. Which GOP presidential contender won the first ever “straw poll” by New Hampshire’s Republican party committee?