Current Events Quizzes: CEQ5

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

What is one of the major criticisms that has been levied against the Harriet Miers nomination?
Tom Delay has been charged with conspiracy and money laundering. What did he allegedly do?
What did Senator Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader, allegedly do?
The border region of what two countries was hit by a major earthquake? WORLD CULTURES ONLY: What is the name of the region that was hit?
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize? (Better luck next year, Bono…)
What unique thing happened to both the defending World Champion Red Sox and the Padres in the first round of the major league playoffs (that did not happen to either the Yankees or the Braves)?
& 8) Judith Miller was in jail because she refused to identify her source, who by giving Ms. Miller certain information, may have committed a crime. As the story goes, (7a), an aide to the President, and (7b), an aide to the Vice President, allegedly told Ms. Miller that a person named (8a) was an undercover CIA agent. The presidential and vice-presidential aides allegedly told Mrs. Miller this information because they were unhappy that (8b), 8a’s spouse, had proved wrong President Bush’s charge that before the Iraq War, Saddam Hussein had tried to buy nuclear material from an African country. (Possible answers for 7 & 8: Dick Cheney, Ethel Dosik, Rafael Palmeiro, Valerie Plame, Karl Rove, I. Lewis “Scotter” Libby, Kenneth Starr, King Tut, Joseph Wilson.)