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Here is this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Good luck!
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1. Last week, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell was found guilty of 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”]McDonnell and his wife were found guilty of multiple counts of public corruption. McDonnell, a Republican, became the first former governor to be convicted of a criminal offense in Virginia history. Several years ago he was deemed as a potential presidential candidate in 2016. McDonnell will be sentenced in January and he faces decades in prison.[/toggle]
2. Who are the two candidates running for Senate in Virginia this fall?
[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 Virginia Senate race features former governor and incumbent Senator Mark Warner (Democrat) and former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie. Warner is expected to win the race, but Gillespie has cut Warner’s lead in half over the last month.[/toggle]
3. According to the United Nations, the number of people living in extreme poverty has been cut by this much since 2000.
[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”]50%. Reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world by half was one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by world leaders in 2000.[/toggle]
4. The mastermind of last year’s Westgate Mall attack was killed by a U.S. drone strike last week. Who was this individual?
[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”]Ahmed Abdi Godane. Godane was the leader of Somalia’s Al Shabab militant group. He was the architect of the attack on the Westgate Mall last year in Kenya, which left more than seventy people dead. U.S. and AU forces hope that Godane’s death will lead to the collapse of the group.[/toggle]
5. Explain the latest scandal involving Brazil’s Petrobras.
[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”]It has been reported that former Petrobras director Paulo Roberto Costa has implicated more than forty politicians in a kickback scheme involving commissions on the contracts of the state-run oil company. The scandal could damage President Dilma Rousseff’s re-election chances.[/toggle]
6. The founder of this fast food chain passed away 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”]Chick-fil-A. S. Truett Cathy founded the chain in Atlanta in 1967 and incorporated his Christian beliefs into the business. The company weathered a boycott in 2012 after it supported anti-gay marriage forces in California.[/toggle]
7. Reports are emerging that Egypt offered this territory to the Palestinians in return for them giving up their demands for a return to 1967 borders with Israel.
[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 Sinai Peninsula. Reports suggest that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi offered the territory, which would be demilitarized, to Palestinian refugees. Palestinian statesman Mahmoud Abbas reportedly rejected the offer.[/toggle]
8. Human Rights Watch has accused African Union troops of exploiting women in this war ravaged country.
[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”]Somalia. Human Rights Watch reports that soldiers operating under the African Union (AU) banner sexually assaulted and exploited women there beginning in 2007. The AU has a force in Somalia to fight the country’s militant Islamists.[/toggle]
9. What is the enterovirus 68?
[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 severe respiratory virus that is similar to the rhinovirus that causes the common cold. It has been reported that 1,000 children in ten states have acquired the rare virus.[/toggle]
10. The co-owner of this NBA franchise announced that he would be selling the team after a racially charged e-mail was released.
[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 Atlanta Hawks. Co-owner Bruce Levenson announced that he would be selling his share in the team after he self-reported an e-mail that he wrote two years ago to the NBA theorizing that the team’s black fans were driving off white ones. The incident comes months after Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lost his team for making racially insensitive comments.[/toggle]