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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. According to Amnesty International, what three nations carried out the most judicial executions in 2013?
[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, Iran, and Iraq were the top three nations in terms of global executions in 2013 according to the Amnesty International report.[/toggle]
2. What has sparked recent protests in Albuquerque, New Mexico?
[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”]Albuquerque has witnessed protests after police were filmed shooting a homeless man named James Boyd to death. Protesters are arging that police are abusing civil rights and point out that the city’s police department has been involved in thirty-seven shootings, twenty-four of which have been fatal, since 2010.[/toggle]
3. Guinea is currently experiencing an Ebola outbreak. What is Ebola?
[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 Ebola virus is a viral hemorrhagic fever that causes death through multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[/toggle]
4. Gun control opponents pointed to the arrest of California State Senator Leland Yee as a classic case of political hypocrisy last week. Why?
[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”]State Senator Yee was caught trying to arrange for a multimillion-dollar illegal weapons deal through the Philippines for a New Jersey mobster despite the fact that he was a supporter of stricter gun control measures in California. He is currently suspended from the state legislature, but is still running for Secretary of State and denies the charges.[/toggle]
5. The Senate Democratic primary in this state is seen by the national media as the most contentious of 2014. It involves a sitting Senator trying to defend his seat from another prominent Democratic challenger and President Obama has weighed in with an endorsement.
[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”]Hawaii. Its current senator, Brian Schatz, was appointed in 2012 after the death of longtime senator Daniel Inouye. President Obama has supported Schatz, but he faces a challenge from Representative Colleen Hanabusa, who Inoye requested fill the rest of his term before he died. Inoye’s widow and former Hawaiian senator Daniel Akaka support Hanabusa.[/toggle]
6. China is currently pursuing a free trade agreement with the European Union. What does the EU want from China in return?
[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”]One of the demands of the EU regarding the signing of a free trade deal with China is for China to open investment opportunities to European businesses. Currently, the trade between China and the EU is estimated to be worth $588.6 billion.[/toggle]
7. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty of this crime 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”]Olmert, who served as Israel’s prime minister from 2006-2009, was found guilty of taking bribes while serving as mayor of Jerusalem between 1993-2003.[/toggle]
8. After seeing his party thrashed in local elections, French President Francois Hollande has replaced this prominent French official.
[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”]French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was replaced by Hollande after the Socialist Party lost several local election battles. His replacement will be Interior Minister Manuel Valls, who has a reputation as a centrist. Political observers see the move as a signal that Hollande will embrace more public spending cuts and free market reforms.[/toggle]
9. The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) recently ruled that Japan must halt this practice in the Antarctic.
[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 ICJ recently found that Japan must end its whaling program inthe area. Australia brought the case against Japan in May 2010 and argued that Japan’s program was not scientific. Japan says that it will abide by the decision, although it disagrees with it.[/toggle]
10. Last week football players at this American university won the right to form a union.
[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”]Northwestern University. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in Chicago found that Northwestern’s football players are employees, which opens the door for unionization. The ruling could change the nature of collegiate athletics. Northwestern University has vowed to appeal the ruling to the NLRB in Washington D.C.[/toggle]