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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
1. How many states refused to set up their own health insurance exchanges, forcing the federal government to design an exchange for them?
[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”]Thirty-six states refused to set up their own insurance exchanges. State run exchanges are facing fewer technical glitches than the federal government’s healthcare.gov website.[/toggle]
2. International experts said that a recent United Nations operation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a watershed moment for its peacekeeping forces. Why?
[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 UN announced this week that for the first time a UN-led force fought back a rebel group to protect civilians, which is the first instance of the UN taking offensive, rather than purely defensive, military action.[/toggle]
3. Earlier this week, Russia made threats towards this Eastern European country that it had better start paying its gas bills.
[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”]Ukraine. Russia has increased the price of Ukrainian gas in recent months as the country has expressed more of an interest in joining the European Union. Russia has a history of using its natural gas as a weapon against its geopolitical enemies in the region.[/toggle]
4. President Obama has come under fire from Republicans for allegedly misleading Americans about this effect of his healthcare law.
[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”]Republicans argue that President Obama’s pledge of “if you like your health insurance you can keep it” was a lie to voters. The White House admitted this week that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans will have to get new health insurance policies under the new law.[/toggle]
5. This prominent foreign leader was outraged upon hearing that the National Security Agency listened on her mobile phone calls.
[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”]Angela Merkel, current chancellor of Germany.[/toggle]
6. Which Southeast Asian nation has the strict interpretation of Islamic law in the region?
[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”]Brunei, whose sultan issued a sharia law code that includes stoning and amputation for offenses. The code only applies to Muslim citizens in the kingdom.[/toggle]
7. Over the last week, courts have ruled which two state abortion laws unconstitutional?
[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”]Texas and Oklahoma.[/toggle]
8. What is the Hastert Rule?
[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 Hastert Rule is an principle that Republicans have used while governingthe House of Representatives since the 1990s whereby the Speaker of the House does not allow a bill to come up for a vote unless the majority of the majority party supports the bill. Currently, immigration reform is bottled up by this rule by Speaker of the House John Boehner. The rule is not consistenly enforced, though, as Boehner introduced the government shutdown bill earlier this month in violation of the rule.[/toggle]
9. How many Palestinian prisoners did Israel recently release and why did it do so?
[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 recently release 26 Palestinian prisoners, which meets the second stage of the new American-sponsored peace effort in the Middle East. Israel is expected to release 104 prisoners, which has put Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on the political defensive.[/toggle]
10. This week, the United Nations confirmed the outbreak of this disease among children in Syria.
[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”]Polio.[/toggle]