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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. Why are insurers arguing that healthcare.gov is not completely fixed?
[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”]Insurance companies argue that although the site is becoming easier for consumers to use that they are still not receiving adequate enrollment information from the website, which includes people’s full names and whether they are signing up or cancelling plans.[/toggle]
2. How many people does the ICC currently have under indictment and why is this making African leaders angry?
[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 ICC currently has 32 people under incitment and African leaders point out that every single indictee is African, which shows that the ICC is a biased body. The African Union has called the ICC a “race hunting” tool.[/toggle]
3. What type of elections are being held in Venezuela this week?
[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”]Municipal elections. They will be held on December 8th and political analysts see them as a referendum for President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.[/toggle]
4. Name at least two of the policies that will be implemented by Germany’s new “grand coalition” between Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party.
[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”]There will be a new national minimum wage of $11.50/hour, the pension age will be lowered from 67 for some groups, and all nuclear reactors are set to be closed by 2022.[/toggle]
5. Next year, this part of the United Kingdom will vote for independence.
[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”]Scotland. Current polls show that the independence referendum will fail.[/toggle]
6. Under the interim international agreement withe Iran, the Iranians must reduce their level of uranium enrichment from 20% to what level?
[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”]Under the deal, Iran must reduce its level of uranium enrichment to 5%, which is adequate for civilian nuclear power generation, and must convert any uranium enriched to 20% to an oxide or dilute it to 5%.[/toggle]
7. If Egypt’s population adopts a new liberal constitution via referendum, when will elections be held for a new parliament and president?
[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”]Assuming that Egyptians vote for the new constitution in January, which provides large powers for the national military, then new elections for a parliament and president could be held in the spring and summer of 2014.[/toggle]
8. This African nation voted its prime minister out of office 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”]Somalia. 184 of 249 politicians gave Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon a vote of no confidence on grounds of ineffectiveness.[/toggle]
9. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is antagonizing some Republicans by refusing to say whether he will endorse a Republican challenge to this state’s governor.
[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”]New York. Christie has yet to say whether he favors a Republican challenge to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who some say could be a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 or 2020.[/toggle]
10. This online company made waves in the news on the weekend when it announced that it is testing the delivery of items with drones.
[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”]Amazon. Its CEO Jeff Bezos announced the plan, which is called “Prime Air,” on Sunday’s edition of Sixty Minutes.[/toggle]