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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz.  Good luck!

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1. The White House recently called for testing to take up this percentage of classroom time.

[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 recently urged schools to keep standardized testing at only 2% of classroom time.  This is in response to recent studies that suggest that standardized testing is taking up to 20% of class time in several states throughout the country.  Although President Obama cannot unilaterally reduce assessment time, he has encouraged the Department of Education to find ways to make it easier for states to meet federal testing mandates.[/toggle]

2. Four dozen people and four people were killed when a driver under the influence drove into a homecoming parade at this university last weekend.

[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”]Oklahoma State.  The driver, twenty-five-year-old Adacia Avery Chambers of Stillwater, was booked for the crime and was reportedly suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.[/toggle]

3. How many seats did the Liberal Party win in the Canadian parliamentary elections last week?

[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 Liberal Party of Justin Trudeau won a stunning victory, capturing 54% of the vote and 184 seats in the Canadian parliament.  This gives the Liberal Party a governing majority.  The incumbent Conservative Party won only 29% of the vote and captured just ninety-nine seats.  Its leader Stephen Harper will remain a member of Parliament (MP), but will step down as Conservative leader.  Harper was seeking his fourth term.[/toggle]

4. How did 60 countries recently celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the United Nations?

[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”]Sixty nations lit up more than 200 landmarks in blue.  These included the Great Wall of China, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, and the Empire State Building in New York.[/toggle]

5. What is the name of the hurricane that hit Western Mexico last week?

[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”]Patricia.  The storm approached Mexico as a Category 5 storm with winds in excess of 250 miles per hour, but weakened as it began making landfall.  Despite the potential loss of life being high, reports have thus far shown that no one was killed in the storm.[/toggle]

6. According to Argentinian electoral rules, which percentage of the votes must a candidate receive in order to avoid a runoff?

[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”]40% with at least a 10% margin of victory over the nearest rival.  Voters went to the polls on Sunday and it appeared that Buenos Aires province Governor Daniel Scioli of the ruling Victory Front alliance was expected to win over Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri.  It still undetermined, though, whether Scioli will win enough votes to avoid a runoff on November 22.[/toggle]

7. Which three states are holding gubernatorial elections next week?

[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”]Kentucky, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  Republicans are expected to win in Louisiana and Mississippi, while Democrats are slightly favored to win Kentucky’s race.[/toggle]

8. A deal brokered between Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian King Abdullah II seeks to end the violence near the Temple Mount by doing 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 deal calls for round-the-clock video monitoring of the site in Jerusalem.  Jews and Muslims both have holy sites at the location, which Israel captured along with East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the Six Day War of 1967.  Israel welcomed the deal, but Palestinians allege that it is a trap for Israelis to arrest and monitor them.  It is still uncertain who would conduct the video monitoring.[/toggle]

9. This global leader apologized for the Iraq War last week.

[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”]Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.  In an interview with CNN, Blair said that the invasion had some mistakes in its planning phases and that it contributed to the rise of ISIS.[/toggle]

10. Which candidates in the 2016 presidential campaign withdrew last week?

[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”]Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Senator Jim Webb.  Both were attempting to win the Democratic presidential nomination but had made little traction in the polls.  Vice President Joe Biden also opted not to run for the Democratic presidential nomination last week.[/toggle]