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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Why does the Kenyan government want to close the Dadaab refugee camp?
[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”]Kenya wants to close the camp, which houses 350,000 Somalia refugees, because it believes that al-Shabab militants who recently killed 148 people at Garissa University hid in the camp. Kenya has given the United Nations three months to close the facility, which the UN is warning it not to do.[/toggle]
2. Pope Francis recently made headlines by describing this as a genocide.
[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”]Francis described the killing of Armenians during the First World Ear by the Ottoman Empire as a “genocide.” Although Western historians agree with this interpretation, Turkey refutes it, arguing that killings took place between Turks and Armenians during the war. Francis said that the Armenian genocide was the first of the twentieth century.[/toggle]
3. Why were nine out of ten former Atlanta public school educators sentenced to jail time 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”]The educators were convicted of falsifying standardized test information in the Atlanta school system by changing student ansers or giving answers to students. An investigation recently that going back to 2005, forty-four schools were involved in cheating, along with 180 educators.[/toggle]
4. Tennessee lawmakers are looking into making this the state’s official book.
[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 Bible. Republican Jerry Sexton has sponsored the legislation, which is being opposed by some members of the party. The state’s attorney general, Hebert Slatery, says that it is unconstitutional because it violates the First Amendment.[/toggle]
5. Why did Chicago recently offer $5.5 million to more than 100 people?
[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 city is offering the money as reparations for those that were victims of torture under former Police Commander Jon Burge. Burge and officers under his command have been accused of using torture to get false confessions out of suspects in the 1970s and 1980s. Chicago has also offered to create a memorial and to make teachers cover the subject in eighth and tenth grades.[/toggle]
6. This celebrity was recently blasted on social media for taking part in a food stamp budget exercise.
[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”]Gwyneth Paltrow. The actress participated in a budgeting exercise from the Food Bank for New York City where participants were made to live off of a budget of $29 a week. Critics claimed that she was mocking hunger.[/toggle]
7. What fix to Social Security did New Jersey Governor Chris Christie recently recommend?
[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”]Christie proposed to raise the retirement age to 69 (over the current age of 67) and the elimination of benefits for workers that make more than $200,000. He also called for phasing out benefits for workers that make more than $80,000 a year.[/toggle]
8. Why did India recently cut off international funding for a local branch of Greenpeace?
[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 Indian government said that Greenpeace is a national security threat due to it harming the country’s economic interests. Greenpeace has protested Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to loosen environmental regulations for major industrial projects. India froze the group’s seven bank accounts the country last week.[/toggle]
9. Explain the Senate’s recent bill concerning the Iranian nuclear negotiations.
[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”]Republicans and Democrats in the Senate recently agreed to a bill whereby the Obama administration would submit the final version of the Iranian nuclear accord to the Senate, where a future vote would take place to lift sanctions if Iran dismantled its nuclear infrastructure. The bill also says that Congress will not raise sanctions during the review of the accord.[/toggle]
10. Name the four candidates who have officially declared that they are running for president 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”]Thus far, three Republicans and one Democrat have declared that they are running for the White House. This includes Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Rand Paul, Senator Ted Cruz, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.[/toggle]