Current Events Quizzes

CEQ2

1. A school district in Fresno, California, just announced it would not offer a course on what, which challenges the teaching of evolution?
2. The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences announced that who will host this year’s Oscars?
3. A new plan to impose a four-month moratorium on rebuilding was met with anger by the residents of what city?
4. After serving twenty-five years in prison, the Turkish man who shot whom in 1981 was released from jail?
5. South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologized for fabricating evidence showing he had done what to humans?
6. Amid mounting criticism, the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives announced a new plan to address what?
7. What is a lobbyist? Explain.
8. Two prominent Democrats who ran against President Bush declared over the MLK weekend that the president broke the law in regards to the domestic spy scandal. One was John Kerry. Who was the other one? Britain, France, Germany and the United States all agreed that Iran must suspend its nuclear program. (Of these powers, all but Germany are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.) Name one of the other major two powers, which are the other permanent members of the Security Council, who announced support for a diplomatic solution to solve this international crisis.
9. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law that allows for what?
10. Over 350 people were killed in a stampede in Saudi Arabia this past week while they were participating in what tradition that dates back over one thousand years, nearly to the time of Mohammed?
11. If Martin Luther King were alive today, how old would he be this year?

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