1) President Obama announced last week that his administration would start allowing states to opt out of parts of what controversial law?
a) The 2010 Health Care Reform Law
b) The 2001 Patriot Act
c) The 1996 Welfare Reform Act
d) The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act
2) A major shift in government policy took place at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. What was it?
a) The government ended the ban on travel to Cuba
b) The government will no longer prosecute Vietnam War era draft dodgers
c) The last American troops left Afghanistan
d) The military changed its Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy
3) What group of people formally requested the United Nations to recognize them as a state?
a) Kurds
b) Chechnyans
c) Palestinians
d) French-Canadians
4) What man announced last week that he is running for president of Russia in 2012?
a) Mikhail Gorbachev
b) Vladmiir Putin
c) Yakov Smirnoff
d) Andrei Arshavin
5) Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were both released from prison last week after two years. What country had been holding them hostage?
a) Cuba
b) Venezuela
c) Russia
d) Iran
6) The United States delegation walked out of the United Nations last week during a fiery speech delivered by what world leader?
a) Hugo Chavez
b) Mahmoud Ahmedinejad
c) Hu Jintao
d) Dmitri Medvedev
7) What singer claimed last week that the United States “caused” the September 11th attacks through its policies towards the Middle East?
a) Pink
b) Lady Gaga
c) Jay-Z
d) Tony Bennett
8) According to Forbes Magazine, who is the richest man in America?
a) Marc Zuckerberg
b) Bill Gates
c) Mark Cuban
d) Warren Buffett
9) The results of an experiment conducted in Europe last week seemed to contradict what scientific theory?
a) Newton’s Second Law of Thermodynamics
b) Boyle’s Law
c) Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory
d) Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
10) What iconic band broke up last week after 31 years?
a) U2
b) R.E.M.
c) The Rolling Stones
d) Journey
Video Link – R.E.M. performing Radio Free Europe on the David Letterman Show in 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpAiK-8GQag&feature=related