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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz.  Good luck!

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1. Who is Ahmad Khan Rahami?

[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”]Rahami is the suspected figure in bombings in New York City and Seaside Park, New Jersey.  Investigators wonder if he acted a “lone wolf” or if he is part of a larger terrorist cell operating in the United States.[/toggle]

2. This former U.S. president allegedly told an audience that he was voting for Hillary Clinton in this year’s presidential election.

[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”]George H.W. Bush.  The elder Bush, who served as president from 1989-1993, reportedly told a gathering of forty people that he planned to vote for Clinton in this year’s presidential race.[/toggle]

3. According to the UN, how many people are currently “displaced” in the world?

[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”]65 million.  President Barack Obama spoke to the United Nations earlier this week and urged them to welcome those affected by conflict or persecution in their native lands.[/toggle]

4. What have there been recent clashes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

[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”]More than forty-four people have been killed in demonstrations against an election delay that they claim is an attempt by President Joseph Kabila to stay in power after his term of office is supposed to end.  The Congo’s top judicial body recently said that Kabila could stay in office until a new leader is chosen.  Kabila’s term is set to expire in late December.[/toggle]

5. This nation is trying to acquire observer status within the African Union.

[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.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a tour of East Africa in July and there is some interest among African nations of deepening trade and security ties with Israel.  Ethiopia and Kenya have endorsed Israel’s bid for AU observer status, but eleven African nations do not recognize Israel as a legitimate state.[/toggle]

6. Who is Brazil’s acting president?

[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”]Michel Temer.  Temer served as former President Dilma Rousseff’s vice president and he served twice as President of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.  Temer is seventy-five years old and is the oldest president in Brazil’s history.[/toggle]

7. Twenty-one states are suing the federal government to challenge this regulation.

[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”]Overtime rules imposed by the Obama administration that are set to take effect on December 1.  The rules requires anyone earning up to $47,476 a year to be eligible for overtime pay.  Previously, anyone that made up to $23,660 was eligible for overtime.  The litigant states argue that the regulation imposes an unconstitutional burden on states.[/toggle]

8. Who is Margrethe Vestager?

[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 European Union Competition Commissioner.  Vestager has made headlines after demanding that Apple pay Ireland $14.5 billion in unpaid taxes.  She has also opened up tax investigations of Google and Facebook.[/toggle]

9. This U.S. city was host to a controversial police shooting this week.

[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”]Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Terence Crutcher, an African-American male, was reportedly shot to death by police even though he was unarmed.  The Tulsa Police Department has promised a quick investigation into the incident.[/toggle]

10. According to AAA, Americans wasted $2.1 million on this 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”]Premium gasoline.  The motor club says that many Americans are using the premium gasolines offered by convenience stores despite the fact that the fuel often fails to provide much of a benefit for engines that are not built for it.[/toggle]