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

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1. This U.S. state will be the next to vote on doctor-assisted suicide.

[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”]Colorado.  Colorado voters will cast ballots on Initiative 145 this year, entitled the “Colorado End-of-Life Options Act.”  The state will look to mirror Oregon’s model of allowing patients judged of sound mind and expected to live no longer than six months to receive medication from a physician to end their lives.  The practice of physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in California, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Montana.[/toggle]

2. Which city will host the 2020 Summer Olympics?

[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”]Tokyo, Japan.  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accepted the passing of the Olympic honors in the closing ceremony in Rio where he morphed into the video game character Mario.[/toggle]

3. This American university recently banned hard liquor from on-campus parties.

[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”]Stanford University.  Stanford’s new alcohol policy will ban hard liquor from campus parties and will also regulate bottled liquor to no more than 750 mL.  The goal of the policy is to reduce at-risk behavior.[/toggle]

4. Federal regulators are looking to ban swimming with this animal in Hawaii.

[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”]Dolphins.  Swimming with the animals is a big tourist attraction for the state, but federal regulators say that the swims are tiring out the dolphins and stressing them out.[/toggle]

5. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled that these individuals are employees.

[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”]Graduate students.  This paves the way for graduate students to join or form unions that university administrators would have to recognize.  The ruling overturns a Brown University decision in 2004 where the NLRB ruled that grad students engaging in collective bargaining would hurt graduate education.  The Washington Post recently reported that there are more than thirty collective bargaining groups that represent more than 65,000 graduate students in the United States.[/toggle]

6. How many migrants has the European Union (EU) moved as part of its migrant relocation program?

[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”]4,000 out of 160,000 there were to be relocated under the plan.  Greece is demanding that the EU do more to relocate refugees, but several nations, especially those in Eastern Europe are refusing to take them in, citing security fears.[/toggle]

7. These two Middle Eastern nations recently agreed to connect their power grids.

[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 and Egypt.  Both nations have the biggest power systems in the Arab world and joining them together will be an effort to boost their power generating capacity.[/toggle]

8. The United States is sending this political figure to Turkey in an attempt to repair relations.

[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”]Vice President Joe Biden.  Biden visited Turkey in January to show support for a government that was facing several security threats from ISIS and Russia.  However, his visit will now come amidst several substantial political purges by Erdogan after a failed coup this year and anger that the United States will not extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen.[/toggle]

9. The Turkish government is alarmed that this group has taken near complete control of northeastern 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 Kurdish YPG militia.  The group is supported by the United States as an instrument to counteract ISIS, but the Turkish government fears that greater Kurdish influence in northeastern Syria could embolden Kurdish separatists in its southeast.  The Turkish government has been fighting Kurdish forces since last year.[/toggle]

10. According to news reports, the floods in Louisiana are the worst natural disaster in the United States since this weather phenomenon.

[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”]Hurricane Sandy in 2012.  President Obama toured the area yesterday after coming under fire for not cutting his vacation short and visiting earlier.  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence visited Louisiana last week.[/toggle]