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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz.  Good luck!

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1. This state recently granted voting rights back to felons.

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Virginia.  Governor Terry McAuliffe announced that he would restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons via executive order.  Kentucky recently passed legislation to do this as well.[/toggle]

2. What is the name of the Austrian political party that won the first round of presidential balloting over the weekend?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Freedom Party.  The party advocates for significant restrictions on immigration, tax cuts, and individual freedom.  Observers wonder whether the party’s support is due to anxieties surrounding the migrant crisis.[/toggle]

3. The International Criminal Court has recently opened an investigation into recent violence in this country.

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Burundi.  The ICC says that it will look into reports of imprisonment, torture, and rape as political tensions have increased in the country over the past year.  The international community is warning that the nation is on the brink of civil war.[/toggle]

4. How much is the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) possibly worth?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Prince Mohammed bin Salman estimates that the value of Aramco could exceed $2 trillion.  If true, it would be the world’s largest initial public offering.  The Saudis are considering the listing of a part of Aramco, which is part of Salman’s plans to modernize the Saudi economy.[/toggle]

5. Who is the President of Afghanistan?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Ashraf Ghani.  He was elected in September 2014 and was a former official at the World Bank.  Ghani recently criticized Pakistan for not taking enough military action against the Taliban.[/toggle]

6. Why is President Obama sending 250 U.S. Special Operations Forces to Syria?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Special Forces will will held militia fighters combat ISIS.  The deployment increases U.S. strength in Syria six-fold and is meant to try to suppress criticism of U.S. policy by Sunni Arab nations in the region.[/toggle]

7. What new architecture is going up around Chernobyl?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]A massive steel enclosure to cover the city’s nuclear reactor four.  The structure has an arch of more than 350 feet high and 500 feet long and it weighs more than 36,000 tons.  The Ukrainian city was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.[/toggle]

8. A leading gay rights activist in this nation was murdered by unknown assailants on Monday.

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Bangladesh.  Xulhaz Mannan, a U.S. Agency for International Development employee, was hacked to death along with another man in an apartment in Dhaka.  Mannan was associated with the country’s first LGBT magazine.[/toggle]

9. A Canadian tourist that had been held hostage for months was beheaded by Islamic militants in this country on Monday.

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]The Philippines.  John Ridsdel, a sixty-eight-year-old Canadian, was killed by Abu Sayaf militants.  The group has pledged allegiance to ISIS and warned that it would behead Ridsdel if its demand for $6.5 million was not met.[/toggle]

10. According to the agreement between Ted Cruz and John Kasich, which states will each man focus on in the coming weeks?

[toggle title_open=”Close Me” title_closed=”Open Me” hide=”yes” border=”yes” style=”default” excerpt_length=”0″ read_more_text=”Read More” read_less_text=”Read Less” include_excerpt_html=”no”]Cruz will focus his efforts on Indiana, while Kasich will focus on Oregon and New Mexico.  The decision by both men not to compete against each other in those states is meant to help them win those states and thereby deny frontrunner Donald Trump the 1,237 delegates for the nomination.  Experts note that if Trump wins Indiana’s primary next week that he could eliminate Cruz and Kasich’s chances of thwarting his acquisition of a majority of delegates by the Republican convention in Cleveland in July.[/toggle]