Here is your multiple choice Extemp Central news quiz for this week. Pick well and good luck!
1. What is the current U.S. unemployment rate?
a. 8.6%
b. 8.8%
c. 9%
d. 9.2%
2.This country allegedly shot down a U.S. drone this week.
a. Russia
b. China
c. Iran
d. North Korea
3. The world’s longest serving monarch lives in this country.
a. Vietnam
b. Japan
c. Thailand
d. Cambodia
4. Congress is debating this type of tax cut.
a. Income
b. Capital gains
c. Payroll
d. Foreign earnings
5. This country is encouraging people to crack a code on a government website in an attempt to recruit code crackers for their intelligence service.
a. The United States
b. France
c. Great Britain
d. Germany
6. Mitt Romney was accused of being out of touch after he offered a bet to Rick Perry for this amount of money.
a. $1,000
b. $10,000
c. $100,000
d. $1,000,000
7. General Manuel Noriega is back in this country to face more prison time.
a. Costa Rica
b. Honduras
c. Nicaragua
d. Panama
8. This country vetoed the EU’s economic agreement that called for closer economic integration.
a. Great Britain
b. Italy
c. Spain
d. Poland
9. The Federal Reserve is looking into making this historical change.
a. Allow Congress to sit in on Federal Reserve meetings
b. All the Federal Reserve Chairman to be elected by voters
c. Allowing the presiden to set interest rates
d. Publishing interest rate forecasts
10. The NBA stepped in and prevented New Orleans Hornet point guard Chris Paul from being traded to this franchise.
a. The Chicago Bulls
b. The New York Knicks
c. The Los Angeles Lakers
d. The Utah Jazz