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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Russian state-owned natural gas firm Gazprom recently cut supplies to this nation for giving supplies to Ukraine.
[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”]Poland. The Russian government argued that Polish resupply to Ukraine constituted theft. Natural gas is considered to be one of the most potent weapons in Russia’s arsenal for handling the Ukrainian crisis.[/toggle]
2. A CNN poll recently found that this figure is leading the 2016 Republican Iowa Caucus field.
[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 Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. Huckabee won the Iowa Caucuses in 2008, but failed to defeat John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination.[/toggle]
3. Which country currently has the world’s highest inflation rate?
[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”]Venezuela. The government recently announced that its inflation rate is 63.42%. Sudan has the world’s second highest inflation rate (46.4%).[/toggle]
4. How many operable nuclear reactors exist in Japan?
[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”]48. All of these were shut down after the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster three years ago, but Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made it a goal to restart them.[/toggle]
5. Coca-Cola recently announced that due to Internet demand it was bringing back this soda.
[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”]Surge. The soft drink was discontinued in 2002.[/toggle]
6. Why was President Obama forced to withdraw the nomination of Debo Adegbile as the Justice Department’s chief civil rights attorney?
[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”]U.S. Senators raised objection to Adegbile’s attempt to get the sentence of a convicted cop killer overturned.[/toggle]
7. This Middle East nation recently expelled leading members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
[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”]Qatar. The Qatari government had hosted seven members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood after the Egyptian military staged a coup last year.[/toggle]
8. UN peacekeepers in this volatile Middle East region due to clashes with al-Qaeda-linked militants.
[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 Golan Heights. UN peacekeepers have been in the area since the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War (1973). The UN said that it had to abandon key positions because of an increased presence of Syrian military units and militant groups near a ceasefire line agreed to by the Israelis and Syrians in 1973.[/toggle]
9. How long as Scotland been united with England?
[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”]307 years. The Acts of Union in 1706 and 1707 joined the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into a single entity called Great Britain.[/toggle]
10. These two prominent Middle Eastern nations were excluded from a Paris meeting to discuss coalition efforts against ISIS.
[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”]Syria and Iran. Syria was excluded due to its poor human rights record over the course of its civil war. The U.S. has ruled out military coordination with Iran, although Iran reportedly refused to join the coalition because the U.S. has “dirty hands.”[/toggle]