1) A new pope was elected last week. What country is he from?
a) Italy
b) Argentina
c) Poland
d) United States
2) What name did the new pope choose?
a) John Paul III
b) Francis I
c) Benedict XVII
d) Peter II
3) Who won the presidential straw poll at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)?
a) Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
b) Florida Senator Marco Rubio
c) New Jersey Governor Chris Christie
d) Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
4) What Republican put forth a budget proposal last week?
a) Speaker of the House John Boehner
b) Florida Senator Marco Rubio
c) Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
d) Congressman Paul Ryan
5) What prominent Republican changed positions by endorsing gay marriage last week?
a) Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney
b) Ohio Senator Rob Portman
c) Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
d) Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin
6) What world leader has been criticized in his home country after the release of a photograph that shows him embracing a woman?
a) American president Barack Obama
b) French president Francoise Hollande
c) Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi
d) Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
7) Who was recently became president of China?
a) Hu Jintao
b) Hu Yaobang
c) Xi Jinping
d) Ai Weiwei
8) Last week, voters in this area decided that to remain under British rule. What area?
a) Falkland Islands
b) Easter Island
c) Cape Verde Island
d) Gibraltar
9) A team of physicists announced last week that they had discovered what?
a) Life on Mars
b) The Higgs Boson particle
c) A fifth quark
d) Proof of the existence of dark matter
10) What rapper was hospitalized with seizures last week?
a) Pitbull
b) Ne-Yo
c) Lil Wayne
d) Jay-Z