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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Why did a Russian company recently remove a giant iPhone statue?
[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”]Allegedly, the statue was removed by the Western European Financial Union (ZEFS) due to fears that it would violate a Russian law banning the “advocacy of lifestyles contrary to traditional family values among minors.” The international press saw the move as a reaction to Apple CEO Tim Cook recently announcing that he was a homosexual.[/toggle]
2. How much of an increase is Venezuela making to its minimum wage?
[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”]15%. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the wage increase on Tuesday, which he hopes will alleviate some of the financial hardship Venezuelans are experiencing due to the country’s high rate of inflation. The Venezuelan inflation rat eis 63.4%, the highest in the world. The wage increase will go into effect next month.[/toggle]
3. Democratic Senate candidate Mary Landrieu created a controversy last week by claiming that this was the reason Democrats are struggling in the South.
[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”]Landrieu told Chuck Todd of NBC’s “Meet the Press” that opposition to her and President Obama is due in part to the South not being “the friendliest place for African Americans.” Landrieu also said that the South has “not always been a good palce for women” as well. Conservatives said that her comments were outrageous, but Landrieu has stuck by them.[/toggle]
4. What is the issue at the center of Zivotofsky v. Kerry?
[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 case concerns whether the parents of an American born in Jerusalem have the right to have their child’s passport identify their place of birth as Israel. The State Department’s long-standing policy has been to designate “Jerusalem” as the place of birth on passports for American children born there in order to maintain U.S. neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.[/toggle]
5. After a suicide bomber killed thirty soldiers in the Sinai peninsula last week, how did Egypt react?
[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 imposed a three-month state of emergency in the region. The Egyptian military has been fighting Islamist forces in the Sinai since 2011.[/toggle]
6. What makes Zambian President Guy Scott unique?
[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”]Scott, who became the President of Zambia last week upon the death of Michael Sata, is the first white leader of an African nation in 20 years.[/toggle]
7. Ousted Burkina Faso leader Blaise Compaore has taken refuge in this African nation.
[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 Ivory Coast. Compaore resigned in the face of protests against his rule last Friday. France helped Compaore flee the country.[/toggle]
8. On Tuesday, Shelley Moore Capito won West Virginia’s Senate seat. This was the first time West Virginia is sending a Republican to the Senate in this many years.
[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”]55 years. Capito will take over the seat vacated by Democratic Senator Jay Rocekfeller, who retired after nearly three decades of service. Capito’s win shows the growing popularity of Republicans in a state that was very loyal to the Democratic Party in the twentieth century.[/toggle]
9. Who won the first round of the Uruguayan presidential election?
[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”]Tabare Vazquez of the ruling center-left Broad Front Party. No candidate won more than fifty percent of the vote, though, so the election will go to a runoff.[/toggle]
10. On Tuesday, who became the first African-American senator to be elected from the South since Reconstruction?
[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”]Tim Scott of South Carolina. Scott was named to the seat by Governor Nikki Haley in 2013 to replace Senator Jim DeMint, who resigned. Scott will fill the last two years of DeMint’s term and will then have to run for re-election in 2016 if he wants a full six-year term.[/toggle]