1) Virginia was hit with an earthquake last week that registered 5.8 on the Richter scale. What town was near the center of the quake?
a) Mineral
b) Scottsville
c) Chesapeake
d) Luray
2) Al-Qaida’s number two man was killed last weekend. What was his name?
a) Atiyah abd al-Rahman
b) Ayman al-Zawahri
c) Hosni Mubarak
d) Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
3) At least sixteen people were killed last week when a car bomb exploded at the United Nations office building in what country?
a) Afghanistan
b) Iran
c) Nigeria
d) Indonesia
4) What man resigned as CEO of Apple last week?
a) Bill Gates
b) Steve Jobs
c) Marc Zuckerberg
d) Jonathan Larsen
5) A judge in Missouri issued an order last week preventing the state from enforcing a law that would have affected public school teachers. What would the law have prevented these teachers from doing?
a) Organizing into a union.
b) Growing facial hair
c) Praying with students during an after school religious club meeting
d) Friending students on Facebook
6) ESPN the Magazine was the subject of controversy last week for publishing an article entitled “What if [this athlete] were white?” The article was about what athlete?
a) Kobe Bryant
b) Michael Vick
c) Barry Bonds
d) Freddy Adu
7) Elmhurst College recently added an unusual question to their college application. What was it?
a) Do you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT community?
b) Do you intend to vote for President Obama in 2012?
c) Would you prefer a male or female roommate?
d) Do you consider Elmhurst a “safety school?”
8) When raiding the compound of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan rebels found many photographs of what woman?
a) Beyonce
b) Taylor Swift
c) Jennifer Aniston
d) Condoleeza Rice
9) What political figure recently released his memoirs entitled In My Time?
a) Colin Powell
b) Dick Cheney
c) Al Gore
d) Ralph Nader
10) What team set a new record by hitting three grand slams in a game last week?
a) New York Yankees
b) Boston RedSox
c) Atlanta Braves
d) Texas Rangers