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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Where have the Iranian nuclear negotiations been taking place?
[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”]Vienna, Austria. Iranian negotiators are meeting with foreign ministers from China, France, Geramny, Russia, and Great Britain, as well as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. As of Monday afternoon, a deal had not been struck as negotiators were trying to reach a deal by midnight on July 7.[/toggle]
2. President Obama conceded this fact about ISIS when visiting the Pentagon earlier 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”]President Obama admitted that ISIS’s ideology had spread beyond Iraq and Syria and that it now constituted a “grave threat beyond the region.” However, the President said that the group would not prevail in its struggle.[/toggle]
3. This country has given journalists instructions on how to write about 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”]Egypt. The instructions follow the Egyptian governments military crackdown on the group after some ISIS-aligned fighters fought Egyptian forces in the Sinai. If journalists issue reports that contradict information from the Egyptian government they could face up to two years in prison.[/toggle]
4. Gay rights may constitute a troubling issue when President Obama visits this country later this month.
[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. The President is expected to visit Kenya and Ethiopia starting on July 25. A Kenyan lawmaker said that the President should not “push a pro-gay agenda” when he visits.[/toggle]
5. What is the only African nation that currently allows gay marriage?
[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”]South Africa. The country allowed for gay marriage in 2006 after its National Assembly voted 230-41 and its National Council of Provinces voted 36-11 in favor of a law that legalized the practice.[/toggle]
6. What is the new U.S. unemployment 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”]5.3%. The number is a seven-year low, but economists are disappointed that wage growth has remained flat. The economy reportedly gained 223,000 jobs last month. The new number is a reduction from May’s 5.5% unemployment rate.[/toggle]
7. Who is Greece’s new finance minister?
[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”]Euclid Tsakalotos. Tsakalotos previously served as a professor at Athens University of Economics and is expected to take a softer tone in negotiations than his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis.[/toggle]
8. What change did the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps make that should significantly benefit women?
[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 U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have decided to give women eighteen weeks of paid maternity leave, which is three times the amount of leave given by the other two military branches.[/toggle]
9. What triggered Reddit’s recent blackout?
[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”]Moderators of “subreddit” groups recently turned their communities private and make them inaccessible for a majority of users following the dismissal of Victoria Taylor, who was Reddit’s director of talent. This is the second uprising by Reddit moderators since May when Ellen Pao, the company’s CEO, enacted an anti-harassment policy that many said hampered free speech. Some Reddit users are circulating an online petition for Pao’s ouster, which has garnered more than 150,000 signatures.[/toggle]
10. What percentage of U.S. voters identify themselves as Democrat and Republican, respectively?
[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”]According to Gallup, 46% of voters now identify as Democrat and 41% as Republican. The higher Democratic number is owed to a string of recent successes for issues that President Obama supports, but analysts question whether it means a great deal since a plurality of American voters now say that they are “independent” and do not specifically lean toward one party.[/toggle]