1) The United States recently announced that it is going to send troops to what country?
a) Yemen
b) Syria
c) Ukraine
d) Poland
2) Last week, this group held its best attended meeting ever. What group?
a) Veterans of Foreign Wars
b) Al Qaeda
c) The National Rifle Association
d) The G-20 economies
3) A court in this country recently recognized “transgender” as a third gender. What country?
a) Iceland
b) Norway
c) India
d) Indonesia
4) Jews in the eastern part of this country were recently asked to register. What country?
a) Germany
b) Ukraine
c) Egypt
d) Portugal
5) The Washington Post and The Guardian won the Pulitzer Prize for public service last week for their coverage of what story?
a) Edward Snowden’s release of confidential NSA documents
b) The loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
c) Russia’s annexation of Crimea
d) The implementation of the Affordable Care Act
6) Last week, the State Department put off making a decision on what?
a) Military action in the Ukraine
b) Authorization of construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
c) Recognition of a Palestinian state
d) Signing on to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement which would extend NAFTA
7) The United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union reached an agreement Thursday that they hoped would diffuse tensions in Ukraine. Where was the agreement reached?
a) Geneva, Switzerland
b) Brussels, Belgium
c) Kiev, Ukraine
d) Durban, South Africa
8) What woman announced last week that she is pregnant?
a) Ellen DeGeneres
b) Chelsea Clinton
c) Miley Cyrus
d) Erin Andrews
9) What computer virus caused www.healthcare.gov to ask its users to reset their passwords?
a) Stuxnet
b) Lifestring
c) Heartbleed
d) Alpha 465
10) White supremacist Frazier Cross shot three people at a local Jewish Community Center and, afterwards, a local mayor expressed sympathy for Cross’ anti-Semitic views. In what state do they live?
a) Montana
b) New York
c) Oregon
d) Missouri