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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Who is Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman?
[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”]Guzman is a Mexican drug lord and the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. The United States considered him the “most powerful drug trafficker in the world” and law enforcement agencies in the United States and Mexico tried to track him down for thirteen years. Last Saturday, Mexican marines placed Guzman under arrest.[/toggle]
2. This African-American governor has gone on record saying that he would consider running for president after 2016.
[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”]Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In an interview with Politico, Patrick said that he would consider running for president after 2016 after consulting with his family.[/toggle]
3. The Supreme Court case of Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA concerns what constitutional issue?
[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 case, which the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from on Monday, concerns whether the Environmental Protection Agency usurped legislative authority in writing new rules to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.[/toggle]
4. The longest serving U.S. representative recently announced that he would be retiring. Who is this person?
[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”]Representative John Dingell of Michigan. Dingell, a Democrat, has represented his district, which includes Detroit’s suburbs, since 1955. He is currently eighty-seven years old.[/toggle]
5. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced cuts to the U.S. military on Monday. The size of the army will be reduced from 528,000 soldiers to how many by 2019 under the cuts?
[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”]440,000-450,000. If Congress does not restore some of the Pentagon’s budget through the sequester, the number could drop to 420,000. The cuts would reduce the size of the U.S. army to its lowest level size since 1974.[/toggle]
6. What percentage of the South China Sea does China claim and what two resources does it want there?
[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”]China claims 90% of the South China Sea’s 3.5 million square kilometers. The area is rich with fishing resources (10% of the world’s catch) and is believed to be rich in energy resources like oil and natural gas. China’s claims are disputed by Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei, and Vietnam.[/toggle]
7. The United States and the European Union have claimed that they will not give Ukraine billions of dollars in aid until these two conditions are met.
[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 U.S. and the EU have told Ukraine that they will not give its new government the $35 billion in aid it is requesting until elections are held in May and without coordinating the aid effort with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ukraine’s Rada (Parliament) impeached President Victor Yanukovych last weekend after protests grew against his rule. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.[/toggle]
8. How many African nations have anti-homosexuality laws?
[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”]Thirty-eight African nations have anti-homosexuality laws. Many of them date back to European colonialism of the African continent more than a century ago. Uganda became the latest African nation to impose tougher penalties on homosexuals when President Yoweri Museveni signed legislation that sentences people to life in prison for “aggravated homosexuality.”[/toggle]
9. India made steps to end its diplomatic row with Italy by doing this 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”]India dropped plans to prosecute two Italian marines for killing two Indian fishermen under an anti-piracy law. The issue has been ongoing for two years. The Italian marines, protecting a privately-owned cargo ship, claim that they mistook the fishermen for pirates and accidentally killed them.[/toggle]
10. Who were the top three nations in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics medal count?
[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”]Russia (33 medals – 13 gold), Norway (26 medal – 11 gold), and Canada (25 medals – 10 gold). The United States was fourth with 28 medals won, nine of which were gold.[/toggle]