Here is this week’s short answer Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. This GOP presidential contender recently said that Mitt Romney was the likely nominee for the Republican Party.
2. Omar Suleiman has entered Egypt’s presidential race. What job did he have under Hosni Mubarak’s administration?
3. This phone carries faces a potential strike among it landline employees.
4. The government of Myanmar recently struck a peace treaty with this ethnic group.
5. A trip by the Public Buildings Service to this city, where it spent over $800,000 for a conference in 2010 has been criticized by Congressmen on both sides of the aisle.
6. This news organization fired a producer for distorting the tape of a 911 call made moments before Trayvon Martin was shot.
7. Shootings in this town last week sparked fear in its African American community.
8. This famous newsman died this Sunday at the age of 93.
9. Armed rebels took advantage of the chaos in this African nation and seized control of its northern territory.
10. This Major League Baseball team’s manager got into hot water for saying that he loved Fidel Castro.