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Here is this week’s news quiz. Good luck!
1. What is the price tag that has been placed on President Obama’s plan for universal preschool education?
[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”]Experts estimate that the plan will cost $30 billion over its first five years. The plan is unlikely to pass Congress, especially the House, which is skeptical of the administration’s domestic agenda.[/toggle]
2. Last week, Harry Reid and Senate Democrats voted for the “nuclear option.” What is this?
[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 “nuclear option,” sometimes referred to as the “constitutional option,” saw Democrats change Senate rules to disable filibusters for executive branch appointments and judicial nominees.[/toggle]
3. How many Democrats in the House defected to the Republican side in voting to extend health plans that have been cancelled due to Obamacare mandates?
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4. What is “the knockout game”? This practice has attracted media attention in recent weeks after a rash of attacks in the Northeast.
[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 “game,” played by what reports have indicated as primarily participated in by young black men, has someone try to knock down a random victim with one punch. A recent case against a black Brooklyn man has been labeled a hate crime. For more information, check out this link.[/toggle]
5. Who was named this week as the new CEO of Wal-Mart, effective February 1st?
[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”]Doug McMillion. McMillion will succeeed CEO and President Mike Duke and McMillion will be the fifth CEO in Wal-Mart’s 63-year history. McMillion has worked his way up through the Wal-Mart ranks since 1984.[/toggle]
6. Identify one of the reasons that motivated Ukraine’s decision to temporarily pause its path to closer ties with the European 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”]Experts believe that the Ukrainian government of Victor Yanukovych does not want to release opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as 2015 elections approach, that Russia is pressuring the country with trade sanctions if it moves closer to the EU, and that the EU’s deal offers little relief for the nearly bankrupt nation.[/toggle]
7. What event has triggered anti-government protests in Thailand?
[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 protests have been triggered by a political amnesty bill that would have covered any of the political actors involved in the country’s political instability that dates back to 2004. The Thai Senate has already rejected the measure, which critics said was a way for the current prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, to bring her brother, Thaksin, back into the country’s political system.[/toggle]
8. Peace talks between the United Nations and Syrian forces will take place in what city on January 22nd?
[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”]Geneva, Switzerland. It is hoped that this meeting can bring an end to the hostilities that have affected Syria since March 2011.[/toggle]
9. Swiss voters went to the polls last week and rejected a law that would have done this to the nation’s economy.
[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”]Swiss voters rejected a ballot measure that would have create a cap on executive pay.[/toggle]
10. In the aftermath of the announcement of the interim deal over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, these two allies of the United States criticized the move.
[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”]Israel, who regards Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to its existence, and Saudi Arabia, who announced following the deal that they would pursue an independent foreign policy.[/toggle]