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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Israeli police barred Palestinians from this site on Sunday in response to some stabbing attacks by Palestinians on Israelis.
[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”]Jerusalem’s Old City. The site is sacred to Muslims and Jews, but a security clampdown after two Israelis were killed in a recent stabbing attack led to Palestinians being barred from the site. Clashes between Palestinians and Israelis are rising, holding out the prospect of a third intifada. Israel took control of the Old City in the Six Day War of 1967 and then annexed the territory.[/toggle]
2. According to the World Bank, the global extreme poverty rate is projected to fall below this percentage of the world population for the first time in recorded history.
[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”]10%. The World Bank defines extreme poverty as those living on or below less than $1.25 a day. However, that measurement is changing to $1.90, thereby helping to shift the numbers downward. The World Bank’s new measurement projects that 9.6% of the world’s population (702 million people) will live in extreme poverty in 2015, which is down from 902 million people (or 12.8% of the global population) in 2012.[/toggle]
3. What are the elements of Hillary Clinton’s announced gun control plan?
[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”]Clinton says that she favors expanded background checks and wants to take steps that would make gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed with their weapons. Doing the second, though, would require the repeal of legislation that protects gun manufacturers and dealers from liability.[/toggle]
4. Who will challenge New Hampshire Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte in 2016?
[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 Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan. Democrats were hoping that Hassan would enter the race as she is their best chance of defeating Ayotte, who is completing her first term in the Senate. Hassan’s decision helps mount an impressive recruiting campaign by Democrats as they seek to retake the Senate in 2016 by winning back seats in New Hampshire, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.[/toggle]
5. Flooding in this state over the weekend created more than 500 road and bridge closures and nine deaths.
[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 Carolina. The state was inundated with more than two feet of rain in less than three days, prompting the closing of schools and government offices. Of the fatalities, five people drowned when their vehicles were swamped by floodwaters and four others died in weather-related car crashes.[/toggle]
6. How many asylum seekers does Germany expect to arrive this 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”]1.5 million. The German government had previously estimated 800,000, but media outlets said that the figure was nearly double that after obtaining a confidential memo from government sources. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany will welcome refugees from the Syrian Civil War despite growing political opposition that has caused her approval ratings to fall to a four-year low.[/toggle]
7. What recently prompted Doctors Without Borders to leave Kunduz, Afghanistan?
[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”]Doctors Without Borders – also know as Medecins Sans frontieres (MSF) – left Kunduz, Afghanistan after twenty-two people were killed in a U.S. air strike on one of its hospitals there. MSF has demanded an independent investigation into the incident, but the U.S. says that a probe done by its military, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Afghan security officials would be enough.[/toggle]
8. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) recently warned Russia to stay away from this nation’s airspace.
[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”]Turkey. There were reports that Turkish jets intercepted Russian aircraft that were over its airspace on Monday. The U.S. and its European allies have complained that Russia ongoing air campaign over Syria is not targeting the Islamic State but moderate rebels opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.[/toggle]
9. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement that encompasses what percentage of the world’s economy?
[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%. The TPP is a deal that includes the U.S. and eleven other nations of the Pacific Rim. A deal was seemingly reached to settle the TPP on Monday, but Democrats and Republicans have expressed skepticism about it in Congress. For example, Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said that the deal would hurt U.S. jobs and consumers.[/toggle]
10. When will former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify before the Select Committee on Benghazi?
[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”]October 22. Clinton will answer questions about the events that led up to the 2012 Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens. Clinton and her aides have blasted the panel as a witch hunt, but Republicans allege that Clinton is trying to obfuscate information about the incident.[/toggle]