Current Events Quiz
Week of May 12- 16, 2014
Questions:
1. Who was Republican strategist
Karl Rove quoted as saying wore the kind of glasses for people who had
traumatic brain injuries? (He later denied saying this.)
2. Which of these did "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken do this week?
a. Win the Democratic nomination for a U.S. congressional
seat in North Carolina
b. Announce he will host next season’s “American Idol”
c. Announce he will appear on next season’s “Dancing with
the Stars”
d. Become governor of North Carolina
3. Who were allegedly in a
video released this week, which showed them wearing hijab and praying?
Extra Credit: What religion
did those who distributed this say those in the video now believe?
4. What former basketball
star told Anderson Cooper he was going to pray for Donald Sterling, even though
the Clippers owner had said untrue things about him?
5. What country was the
site of a transformer explosion and fire in a mine that killed more than 150
this week?
6. Executions have been in
the news lately, particularly ones that didn’t go as planned. Name one state
where that has happened in the last month.
7. Name a state that
postponed an execution this week because of this.
8. What European country
only seems to be having more violence after a vote last weekend about one of
its region's autonomy?
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