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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. How much of the global population are overweight or obese?
[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”]30%. Concerns about obesity are prompting governments to look into ways to promote healthy living, especialy after the British medical journal Lancet revealed that no nation has managed to slim down its population over the last thirty years.[/toggle]
2. California Governor Jerry Brown and former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano are sparring over this.
[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”]A tuition increase for the University of California system. The UC Board of Regents, which Napolitano heads, approvd a 5% tuition increase for each of the next five years last week, but Governor Jerry Brown has vowed to try to block the increase and is promising to withhold 4% of promised funding for UC campuses in the next state budget.[/toggle]
3. Which country has the world’s highest homicide 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”]Honduras. The country’s homicide rate is 90.4 per 100,000 people. The murder of Maria Jose Alvarado, who was set to represent the country in the Miss World beauty pageant drew attention to the country’s crime problem last week.[/toggle]
4. The Commerce Department reported on Tuesday that the U.S. economy grew by this much in the third quarter.
[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”]3.9%. The third quarter covers July-September and the growth figure was higher than the 3.5% that was previously reported. Coupled with 4.6% GDP growth in the spring America’s economy is growing at its strongest pace since 2003.[/toggle]
5. Why did the Colombian government recently halt peace negotiations with the FARC?
[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”]FARC kidnapped a Colombian general with two associates. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who has been a champion of talks with the FARC to end fifty years of hostility between the group and government forces, broke off the talks and said that they will resume only when the general is returned.[/toggle]
6. What did France refuse to deliver to Russia because of the Ukrainian crisis?
[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”]France has suspended the delivery of the first of two warships to Russia. The ship, named the Vladivostok, can carry 700 troops and fifty armored vehicles. The Russian government purchased the ships for $1.24 billion and the French government has been reluctant to cancel the contract outright in spite of pressure from its Western allies to do so.[/toggle]
7. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outraged women’s rights advocates last week by doing this.
[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”]Erdogan told a convention of women’s rights groups that equality between men and women is “against nature.” He also blamed feminists for opposing his Islamist policies because they “don’t accept the concept of motherhood.” Erdogan has come under fire over the last few months for his statements that Turkish women should have three children and proposals to limit reproductive rights.[/toggle]
8. The P5+1 have extended the deadline for the Iranian nuclear negotiations to this date.
[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”]March 1, 2015. Discussions have been extended with the hopes of reaching a high-level political agreement by this date. The P5+1 hopes to have all of the details of the agreement finalized by July 1. Negotiations have been taking place since last summer and negotiators remain deadlocked on how much uranium, if any, Iran should be allowed to enrich.[/toggle]
9. Who qualifies for deferred deportation under President Obama’s recent executive order?
[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”]Those who have lived in the United States for five years and have children that are illegal immigrants or legal residents of the United States. These individuals will have to apply for a work permit, which enables them to remain in the United States and work for three years, and to obtain it they must pass a background check, pay an application fee, and provide proof of their child’s birth by last Thursday. Also, those who were brought the United States as children, known as “dreamers,” will be eligible for deferred deportation under the Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program so long as they came to the United States prior to 2010. Analysts estimate that nearly five million illegal immigrants will qualify under the guidelines of the President’s executive order.[/toggle]
10. This cabinet official in President Obama’s cabinet resigned on Monday.
[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”]Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Hagel was the lone Republican in President Obama’s cabinet. He took over the Department of Defense in February 2013. Hagel was reportedly unhappy in the administration and some have criticized his handling of the fights against Ebola and the Islamic State.[/toggle]