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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. This member of Congress was recently given a security detail due to a threat made by the Islamic State.
[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”]Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Bachmann was the subject of an online threat last week.[/toggle]
2. What was the legal issue that prevented Australia from sending a special forces unit to Iraq to help the Iraqi government fight the Islamic State?
[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”]Iraq initially refused to give the Australian force a wide degree of legal immunity to conduct operations inside its territory. The issue has now been resolved and 200 Australian special forces personnel will go into Iraq to train government forces.[/toggle]
3. Colorado police are warning parents about this in the run-up to Halloween?
[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”]Marijuana-laced candy. Although no incidents of handing out this type of candy to children has been documented, Colorado police have warned parents to be on the lookout for edible marijuana products in their children’s Halloween bags.[/toggle]
4. When was the last time that a gubernatorial candidate in Maine received more than 50% of the vote?
[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”]1998 when Independent Governor Angus King won re-election with 58% of the vote. Maine’s gubernatorial election is a three-way affair and the winner is likely to receive less than 50% of the vote.[/toggle]
5. This Southeast Asian nation recently called for early elections, with the poll to be held in January.
[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”]Sri Lanka. Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has governed the country since 2005, is expected to seek a third term.[/toggle]
6. Why were Mexican federal police recently deployed to twelve towns in the state of Guerrero?
[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”]Police were sent to the area after forty-three students, who attended a teacher training college, disappeared after getting into clashes with the state’s police on September 26. Thirty-six officers have been questioned over the disappearance of the students.[/toggle]
7. How many people are being monitored for Ebola symptoms in Texas?
[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”]120. Texas health officials announced that these individuals are being monitored for Ebola symptoms because they had contact with one of the three people who had the disease in the state (Thomas Eric Duncan, Nina Pham, and Amber Vinson).[/toggle]
8. This country’s parliamentary speaker has said that in 2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his country the opportunity to divide Ukraine.
[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”]Poland. The remarks come from Poland’s parliamentary speaker Radoslaw Sikorski. Sikorski was formerly Poland’s foreign minister to the Russian Federation.[/toggle]
9. Turkey recently agreed to let Iraqi Kurds cross its territory to fight the Islamic State in this country.
[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”]Syria. The United States and European nations pressured the Turkish government into allowing Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross Turkey’s borders to fight the Islamic State.[/toggle]
10. Who did President Obama name as the nation’s “Ebola czar” last Friday?
[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”]Ron Klain. Klain has previously served as chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden. He also served as chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore. Klain will be tasked with coordinating the federal government’s response to the Ebola threat.[/toggle]