Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz.

1. How much value has the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost this year?

Spoiler
According to MarketWatch yesterday, the Dow Jones is down 17% for the year. The Dow Jones groups the prices of 30 of the most traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq. It is used by the media to report on the health of the market as a whole. The yearly decline is deemed the sign of a bear market, where stock prices fall. Along with the Dow, other stock measures are down as the Nasdaq 100 has lost 33% of its value so far this year and the S&P 500 has fallen to its lowest level in two years.

2. Last weekend, 131 people died in a stampede in Indonesia at what event?

Spoiler
A soccer match. Violence broke out at the end of a match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surabaya when supporters of Arema threw bottles and other objects at players and soccer officials. Some even went onto the field to confront members of the team. In response, police fired tear gas, which produced chaotic conditions and a crowd stampede. A police chief and nine officers were removed on Monday for their role in the incident.

3. A missile test that North Korea conducted on Tuesday was of a ballistic missile that could reach which U.S. territory?

Spoiler
Guam. The North Korean test was its longest-ever, firing a ballistic missile over Japan. That forced Japan to issue evacuation alerts. In response, the U.S. and South Korea launched fighter jets. According to the Associated Press, North Korea has test-fired 40 missiles in 20 different launches this year.

4. Which Brazilian political party won the largest number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the country’s lower house of Congress?

Spoiler
The Liberal Party (LP), which is the party of President Jair Bolsonaro. The LP increased its share of the vote by 30%, increasing its number of seats in the Chamber from 76 to 99. Environmental activists are worried that the LP’s share of the vote will harm efforts to curtail climate change and cease destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

5. This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a racial redistricting case from which state?

Spoiler
Alabama. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday about whether Alabama should be forced to create a second Black majority congressional district under the guidelines of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The state has a Black population of 27% but only one of the state’s seven congressional districts is majority Black.

6. Why did Kim Kardashian have to reach a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission?

Spoiler
Kardashian was charged with promoting cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing to followers that she was paid $250,000 to do so. She agreed to pay the SEC $1.26 million to settle the issue. Kardashian promoted EMAX tokens on her Instagram page. She has agreed not to promote any crypto asset securities for three years.

7. The British government recently scrapped which economic plan?

Spoiler
A plan to cut income taxes for top earners. Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng announced Monday that Prime Minister Liz Truss was abandoning the idea, which was facing universal opposition in the country. Conservative MPs were blasting Truss’ plan as tone deaf when average Britain’s were struggling to get by and when the announcement of Truss’ plan caused the British pound to fall to a record low versus the dollar.

8. By how much did the U.S. Army fail to meet its recruiting goal for this year?

Spoiler
25% (or 15,000 soldiers). The military found it tough in a tight jobs market to recruit new soldiers. The poor recruiting data is causing a debate over whether there should be a restructuring of the American military if it cannot staff its number with volunteers.

9. The Supreme Court recently declined to hear a case that tried to overturn a Trump-era regulation on what gun attachment?

Spoiler
Bump stocks. These allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns. Gun rights advocates were trying to get the Supreme Court to overturn a federal ban on bump stocks that was put in place by the Trump administration in 2018.

10. Who won the first round of the Brazilian presidential election?

Spoiler
Former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula won 48% of the vote versus President Jair Bolsonaro’s 43%. Pre-election polls suggested that Lula would win 51% and avoid a run-off but those predictions ended up being wrong. It has been 24 years since a presidential candidate has won the election outright in the first round of voting. The run-off between the two candidates will take place on October 30.