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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Last week, Sweden’s navy was investigate a suspicious object near Stockholm that people thought could be 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”]A Russian submarine. Newspaper reports suggested that the Swedish Navy had intercepted a distress signal from a foreign submarine. The search produced no results.[/toggle]
2. This political figure recently said that they would “hopefully” run for office again to annoy their “haters.”
[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 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Palin is still active in Republican politics, although she has not run for another office since resigning as Alaska’s governor in July 2009.[/toggle]
3. Which country recently agreed to help Vietnam modernize its defense and security forces?
[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”]India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently committed the Indian government to assisting Vietnam develop its defense forces. Most of this cooperation will attempt to enhance the capabilities of the Vietnamese navy, which is the country’s primary way of asserting its claims in the South China Sea.[/toggle]
4. On Tuesday, Robel Phillipos, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was found guilty in federal court on this charge.
[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”]Making false statements to authorities in a terrorism investigation. Phillipos was charged with lying to investigators about whether he visited Tsarnaev’s dorm room a few days before the Boston Marathon bombing.[/toggle]
5. This Middle Eastern nation is asking for funding to alleviate a refugee crisis caused by the Syrian Civil War.
[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”]Lebanon. The Lebanese government is appealing for billions in international donations to care for more than 1.5 million refugees that have crossed into the country to escape the Syria Civil War, which has been raging for three and a half years. Lebanese officials are warning that they cannot care for the refugees they have and are looking into ways to bar future refugees from entering the country.[/toggle]
6. According to Amnesty International, this nation executed the most prisoners last year.
[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. Amnesty’s report states that China executed 2,400 prisoners last year. Despite the large figure, this was 20% less than 2012. Iran and Iraq were the other two nations in the top three with 369 and 169 executions, respectively.[/toggle]
7. The United Nations Children’s Fund says that the 2008 global financial crisis caused this many children in developed nations to fall into poverty.
[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”]2.6 million. UNICEF’s report places the number of poor children in developed nations (the world’s 41 richest countries) at 76.5 million.[/toggle]
8. According to South Korean intelligence, why was Kim Jong-un out of the public spotlight for six weeks?
[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”]South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says that Mr. Kim’s absence was due to ankle surgery. The surgery removed a cyst on Mr. Kim’s right ankle.[/toggle]
9. These two U.S. states announced controversial Ebola quarantine rules over the 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”]New Jersey and New York. Both state governors backed a mandatory twenty-one day quarantine for anyone flying into their states from West Africa that has been in contact with an Ebola patient. Civil libertarians argue that the quarantine rules are unconstitutional and the Obama administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) argue that they are not needed and could harm aid efforts.[/toggle]
10. Who won the Brazilian presidential 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”]President Dilma Rousseff. Rousseff faced off a challenge from businessman Aecio Neves in the runoff, winning by less than 3.3 percentage points. When Rousseff won the presidency four years ago, she won by 12 percentage points.[/toggle]