Looking for a challenge to start 2010? If so, here is the short answer version of this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. The alleged plane bomber from last week was from what country?
2. This Florida crop has been put at risk by recent freezing temperatures.
3. This Obama administration official is under fire after saying that the U.S. security system “worked” last week.
4. This is the last year that a break will exist for what tax?
5. The Venezuelan government will ration what next year?
6. The U.S. has closed its embassy in what Middle Eastern nation in light of security threats?
7. The United Nations has found the leader of this African nation responsible for the massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators on September 28th.
8. A cartoonist in which nation avoided a brush with death last week due to his prior depictions of the prophet Muhammad?
9. The United Nations has imposed sanctions on which African nation for its support of Islamist militias in Somalia?
10. After failing to get a new agreement by New Year’s Eve, Russia is engaged in an oil dispute with which nation, which threatens Europe’s energy supply?