For varsity and experienced extempers here is the short answer version of this week’s news quiz. Good luck!
1. This political figure triggered a debate last week by talking about their children during a discussion about obesity.
2. What was the official U.S. unemployment rate for January?
3. This news network is laying off staff and is making their anchor take a pay cut.
4. In response to rising trade tensions, China plans to levy anti-dumping duties on what U.S. product?
5. Due to fallouts over Greek debt, this European nation last week saw a five percent drop in their stock market and bond yields rise over concerns that its public finances are not in order.
6. Google is reported to have enlisted the services of this governmental organization to thwart cyberattacks.
7. The leader of this nation was the first foreign leader to visit Honduras’s new president.
8. The White House’s fiscal budget scraps this ambitious plan of NASA’s that former president George W. Bush supported.
9. Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner recently succeeded in pushing out this government official, who was the governor of the Central Bank.
10. The peacekeepers of this African nation are on trial after they allegedly mutinied in Somalia.