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

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1. Which Asian country has the world’s second-fastest economic growth rate since 1990?

[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”]Vietnam. Second only to China, Vietnam has benefitted from companies seeking low-cost alternatives to China, freer trade policies, and greater internal competition. It may reap further rewards if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is ever ratified.[/toggle]

2. What was significant about Yuriko Koike becoming the governor of Tokyo?

[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”]Koike becomes the first woman to become governor of Tokyo. She ran a campaign calling for greater female participation in politics as only nine percent of Japan’s Diet members are women.[/toggle]

3. Deadly flooding has recently affected which U.S. state?

[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”]Louisiana.  Eleven people have been reported dead by the floods and 40,000 homes are said to have been impacted by the event.[/toggle]

4. This nation recently allowed Russian warplanes to use its territory to launch attacks in 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”]Iran.  Russia and Iran have been allies in the Syrian Civil War as they would prefer to keep Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power.  Russia claims that it is only targeting Islamic terrorists in Syria, but observers claim that it is also targeting moderate opposition groups.[/toggle]

5. British Cleric Anjem Choudary was recently convicted of what crime?

[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”]Inviting support for ISIS.  Choudary pledged allegiance to the terrorist group in 2014.  British authorities linked him to the recruitment of hundreds of individuals to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.[/toggle]

6. The political opposition in this African country is refusing to accept the results of a recent presidential election.

[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”]Zambia.  President Edgar Lungu and his Patriot Front (PF) party won the elections with 50.35% of the vote.  The vote illustrates a split nation, with northern and eastern areas voting for Lungu and the south voting for his opponent, Hakainde Hichilema.  The European Union (EU) says that the elections were largely free and fair.[/toggle]

7. This nation has taken to the sinking of foreign fishing boats to defend its fishing industry.

[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”]Indonesia.  The government plans to sink seventy-one foreign vessels that it recently impounded to defend its claims to fishing rights in Southeast Asia.  The vessels being sunk are largely of Vietnamese and Chinese origin.[/toggle]

8. This U.S. city recently experienced violence after a police shooting.

[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”]Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sent in the National Guard after Milwaukee was engulfed in violence and looting following the death of Sylville Smith.  Milwaukee is one of America’s most segregated cities.[/toggle]

9. This U.S. city may force police officers to wear body cameras after no police officers volunteered to do so.

[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”]Boston.  The city wanted to have one hundred officers participate in a body camera pilot program, but no officers has volunteered thus far.  Police argue that the costs of the program could be prohibitive and that it could harm their interaction with informants.[/toggle]

10. Who is Carl Icahn?

[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”]Icahn is an activist shareholder and business mogul that has a history of corporate takeovers.  His history includes a takeover of TWA in 1985, an attempted takeover of U.S. Steel in 1987, and interest in taking over Yahoo! in 2008.  He is currently a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[/toggle]