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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. UN special envoy Angelina Jolie opened a four-day summit in London that is concerned with this 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”]Ending sexual violence in war. The event is the largest of its kind and Jolie is co-hosting the event with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who has called on the 140 nations at the summit to write action against sexual violence into their army training.[/toggle]
2. On Monday, President Obama issued an executive order that concerns student loans. What does it do?
[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”]President Obama’s executive order allows those who borrowed federal direct loans to cap their payments at 10% of their monthly income. It also calls for the federal government to renegotiate contracts with federal loan servicers to improve services for borrowers. Federal student loan debt now totals more than $1 trillion and 71% of four-year college graduates have an average of $30,000 in loan debt.[/toggle]
3. What issue is at the core of Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit against the NCAA?
[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”]O’Bannon argues that the NCAA violates antitrust laws by denying athletes compensation for use of their name, image, or likeness. O’Bannon, a former basketball star at UCLA in the 1990s, began his lawsuit five years ago after seeing his likeness used in an NCAA basketball video game. If O’Bannon wins, it could open the door to college athletes securing endorsement deals.[/toggle]
4. The most recent G7 meeting took place here.
[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”]Brussels. The meeting was originally scheduled for Sochi, but the meeting was moved due to Russian actions in the Ukraine.[/toggle]
5. An internal audit by the Department of Veterans Affairs revealed that this many veterans have waited more than three months to see a doctor.
[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”]57,400. The report is adding pressure on Congress to come up with a legislative fix to the problems plaguing the VA healthcare system. Solutions could include spending more than $1.5 billion on new medical facilities, doctors, and nurses, and increasing the powers of the VA Secretary to fire officials.[/toggle]
6. Former Secretary of State and prospective 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently committed what some political observers have called “the first gaffe of the 2016 elections.” What did she do?
[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”]Secretary Clinton came under fire for comments that she and her husband Bill were “dead broke” after leaving the White House. Clinton’s political opponents argued that the comments, which came out in an interview with ABC News, show that she is out of touch with average Americans.[/toggle]
7. In response to NATO war games near its border, Russia recently held military manuevers in this European exclave.
[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”]Kaliningrad. The war games conducted by NATO and Russia simulate hostile activities in the Baltics.[/toggle]
8. This article of the UN charter recognizes the right of nations to collective self-defense.
[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”]Article 51. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recently cited it as a justification for expanding Japan’s military capabilities and enhance its ability to defend the United States to make existing security arrangements “more bilateral.”[/toggle]
9. Who recently became the tenth president of Israel?
[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”]Reuven Rivlin of the Likud Party. Rivlin was a former minister of communications and was the speaker of the Knesset twice. He was elected by the Israeli parliament by a vote of 63-53. The powers of the Israeli president are largely ceremonial.[/toggle]
10. Sunni militants captured this Iraqi city yesterday.
[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”]Mosul. Mosul is the second-largest Iraqi city and it is an important center of the country’s petroleum industry. The militant victory is an embarrassment for the Iraqi government and shows that a Sunni insurgency against it has not yet died out.[/toggle]