Here are the answers to this week’s multiple choice Extemp Central news quiz.
1. Protesters that are against this energy resource protested at the White House last week.
a. Coal
b. Oil-sands
c. Wind energy
d. Nuclear power
2. This country’s first nuclear power plant has officially gone into operation.
a. Ukraine
b. South Africa
c. Iran
d. Brazil
3. This prominent African-American figure has criticized a passage on the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Washington D.C.
a. Jesse Jackson
b. Todd Jealous
c. Oprah Winfrey
d. Maya Angelou
4. Last week marked the sixth anniversary of this major storm.
a. Hurricane Andrew
b. Hurricane Irene
c. Hurricane Katrina
d. Hurricane Floyd
5. September 1st wass the anniversary of Germany’s invasion of this country, which sparked World War II.
a. Czechoslovakia
b. Poland
c. Belgium
d. Austria
6. August was the deadliest month for U.S. troops in this combat zone.
a. Afghanistan
b. Libya
c. Iraq
d. Colombia
7. This country has a new prime minister.
a. Somalia
b. Japan
c. Ecuador
d. Italy
8. The trial of this former global leader has been wrecked because they have been diagnosed with “anosognosia.”
a. Omar al-Bashir
b. Jacques Chirac
c. Charles Taylor
d. Hosni Mubarak
9. This organization recently decided that it would not import Syrian oil.
a. AU
b. NATO
c. EU
d. ASEAN
10. Israel has refused to apologize to this country for a raid on a flotilla in 2010.
a. Lebanon
b. Turkey
c. Jordan
d. Syria