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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Which company has bid to take over Time Warner Cable?
[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”]Charter Communications. Charter has agreed to a $56 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable, but it will have to overcome regulatory obstacles that prevented Comcast from acquiring Time Warner this year.[/toggle]
2. The governor of this state recently vetoed a bill that would be abolished the state’s death penalty.
[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”]Nebraska. Republcian Governor Pete Ricketts, who was elected in 2014, vetoed a bill to abolish the state’s death penalty. However, lawmakers passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, so they could override Ricketts veto in a future vote. Nebraska has not held an execution since 1997.[/toggle]
3. What is the major issue in Evenwel vs. Abbott?
[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 agreed to hear this week, centers on whether states should consider total population or only eligible voters when drawing equal legislative districts. If the court rules for the eligible voter standard then it could shift state politics away from communities with large immigrant populations and empower rural areas at the expense of urban ones.[/toggle]
4. Who recently announced that they would challenge Senator John McCain in the 2016 Senate elections?
[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”]Democratic Representative Ann Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick will enter the race as a significant underdog as McCain is seeking his sixth term. Her decision to run will also result in her vacating her House seat in 2016, which could be a pickup opportunity for the Republican Party.[/toggle]
5. This U.S. city recently began unveiling reforms that it will make to its police forces after a Justice Department investigation.
[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”]Cleveland. The chnages will include years of court-supervised monitoring of the Cleveland Police Deparment, pledges the department to “bias-free policing,” and changes to officer recruitmen and discipline.[/toggle]
6. Who will be allowed to vote in the British EU referendum?
[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”]According to preliminary rules laid out by British Prime Minister David Cameron this week, voters who are eligible to normally vote in British elections will be allowed to cast ballots. British citizens that have lived abroad for less than fifteen years will also be allowed to vote. British overseas territories such as Gibraltar will also be given a right to cast their ballots. Cameron has pledged to hold an EU referendum by the end of 2017, but a specific date for the vote has not been set.[/toggle]
7. According to Forbes magazine, who is the world’s most powerful woman?
[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”]German Chancellor Angela Merkel. It is the fifth year in a row that Merkel has topped the list. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was second and Melinda Gates, wife of billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates, was third. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen was fourth and General Motors CEO Mary Barra was fifth.[/toggle]
8. Who is NATO’s Secretary-General?
[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”]Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg is the thirteenth Secretary General in NATO’s history, having assumed the post on October 1. He was the Prime Minister of Norway from 2000 to 2001 and 2005 to 2013.[/toggle]
9. Due to reports that young children are being trafficked out of Nepal following the country’s earthquake in April, what step is Nepal’s government taking to deal with the problem?
[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 Nepali government has banned children traveling without a parent or legal guardian. British news sources have reported how young children are being lured by traffickers that are posing as aid workers and then put into slave labor work in India. There are also fears that young women could be trafficked to brothels in India and South Korea.[/toggle]
10. Why is Iran putting Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian on trial?
[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”]Iran is putting Rezaian on trial for espionage. He was arrested by Iranian authorities last July. The United States says that his detention is “absurd” and has called for his release. Rezaian’s situation could complicate ongoing talks between U.S. and Iranian authorities over the country’s nuclear program.[/toggle]