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

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1. Israeli cabinet ministers are demanding preemptive strikes against this enemy force.

[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”]Tunnels dug by Hamas from the Gaza Strip.  Israeli ministers argue that the tunnels provide weapons and other support to militants that then create problems for the Jewish State.[/toggle]

2. What criticism did Donald Trump level at former President George W. Bush during Saturday’s CBS Republican presidential debate?

[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”]Trump argued that Bush and his administration lied when taking the U.S. into the Iraq War in 2003 since no weapons of mass destruction were found there.  Trump argued that the war was a mistake.  This is a significant political risk since Bush remains popular in South Carolina, the site of the next GOP primary.  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who wishes to become the “establishment” candidate against Trump, is bringing his brother onto the campaign trail this week to help him defeat his rivals that include Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich.[/toggle]

3. How long has Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni been in power?

[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”]More than thirty years.  Museveni assumed office on January 29, 1986 and has served five terms.  Ugandan voters will head to the polls on Thursday, but Museven is expected to win again.  Western donors wish he would step down, but he has shown little appetite for doing so over the last decade.[/toggle]

4. What is the size of the recently proposed U.S. defense budget?

[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”]$580 billion.  The U.S. military argues that it needs more electronic forces such as drones and cyberwarfare capabilities to face off with China and Russia and that it also needs to modernize the nation’s nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems.  The military has also requested funds for assisting in the fight against Islamic extremists in the Middle East.[/toggle]

5. Why does Haiti currently have a provisional government?

[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”]Accusations of fraud tarnished the recent presidential election, forcing a postponement of the presidential runoff election until April 24.  President Michel Martelly stepped down last week and the nation’s parliament appointed an interim president.[/toggle]

6. Which two candidates dropped out of the Republican presidential primary last 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”]Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.  Both candidates had single digit showings in New Hampshire.  This leaves seven Republican candidates and the field will probably winnow in the coming weeks before Super Tuesday on March 1.[/toggle]

7. Observers of the Syrian Civil War warn that if forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad capture this city that it may destroy resistance against him.

[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”]Aleppo.  The city was overrun by opposition groups in 2012, but Syrian forces have gradually made inroads due to the assistance of Russian air forces.  Reports surfaced last week that the city’s supply line to Turkey had been severed and people were fleeing the city.  With Assad’s forces on the move it significantly threatens the Syrian peace process.[/toggle]

8. Experts currently believe that a modified North Korean missile could attack these U.S. states.

[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”]Alaska and Hawaii.  The calculations are based on the presumption that North Korea is using its recent satellite launch as a preliminary to developing intercontinental ballistic missile technology.  There is significant disagreement in the international community about whether North Korea can miniaturize a nuclear warhead to fit onto a missile.[/toggle]

9. Name at least four of the twelve states that will be voting in the Republican primary on March 1 (Super Tuesday).

[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”]Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia.  Before these states vote, South Carolina will hold its primary this Saturday and Nevada will hold its caucus on Tuesday, February 23.[/toggle]

10. Which Supreme Court justice passed away 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”]Antonin Scalia.  Scalia was deemed as one of the conservative titans on the Supreme Court, supporting the doctrines of “originalism” and “textualism” for interpreting constitutional and statutory law.  Since Scalia was a conservative vote on a Supreme Court that was divided 5-4, the balance of the Court could tilt in a liberal/progressive direction depending upon who his replacement is.[/toggle]