Welcome back for another exciting week of information at Extemp Central. To start your week off right, here is your multiple choice weekly news quiz covering last week’s major International and United States news events. Good luck!
1. What is the current rate of unemployment in the United States?
a. 8.5%
b. 9.8%
c. 10.2%
d. 11%
2. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the ICC, visited what country last week to look into election violence?
a. Iran
b. Algeria
c. Kenya
d. Thailand
3. This Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of what historical event?
a. Sally Ride going into space
b. The fall of the Berlin Wall
c. Iran’s Islamic revolution
d. The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
4. The U.S. peace deal in what Latin American nation is said to have broken down?
a. Honduras
b. Colombia
c. Peru
d. Nicaragua
5. Which nation convicted 23 CIA agents in absentia last week?
a. Spain
b. Saudi Arabia
c. Switzerland
d. Italy
6. What does Iran’s opposition movement call itself?
a. The revolutionary democratic movement
b. The green movement
c. The real Islamic revolution
d. The Iranian republican movement
7. Which U.S. car firm recorded a profit for the first time in four years in October?
a. General Motors
b. Chrysler
c. Toyota
d. Ford
8. Which European leader visited the U.S. last week and addressed Congress on climate change?
a. Gordon Brown
b. Angela Merkel
c. Nicolas Sarkozy
d. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
9. What had to be stripped out of the House healthcare bill in order to get enough votes from conservative Democrats?
a. End of life counseling
b. The public option
c. Abortion coverage
d. A mandatory requirement to purchase health insurance
10. Which U.S. senator has said that he will look into whether Fort Hood was a terror attack?
a. Joe Lieberman
b. Mitch McConnell
c. Lindsey Graham
d. Barbara Boxer