1) What man addressed both Congress and the United Nations this week?
b) Pope Francis
The Pope addressed issues such as income inequality and climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/europe/pope-francis-united-nations.html?_r=0
2) What presidential candidate dropped out of the race last week?
c) Gov. Scott Walker
Walker briefly led in the polls last summer but had lost a great deal of political and financial support over the past few months.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34321241
3) What governmental official resigned his position last week?
a) Speaker of the House John Boehner
Boehner has resigned his position as Speaker of the House immediately and is resigning from Congress in October.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2015/09/25/boehner-resigns/
4) Which of the following heads of state visited the United States last week?
a) Chinese president Xi Jinping
After Xi visited Boeing and Apple earlier in the week, he joined President Obama for a state dinner Saturday night.
5) Last week, Hillary Clinton declared her opposition to what?
d) The construction of the Keystone XL pipeline
The pipeline would run from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, but needs executive branch approval before it can be built. She is against approving the pipeline because of environmental concerns.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/politics/hillary-clinton-opposes-keystone-xl-pipeline/
6) A new set of Hillary Clinton emails was discovered last week. In those emails, whom is Clinton communicating with?
c) Gen. David Petraeus
A Congressional committee has been investigating Clinton’s relationship to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya for years.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/25/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-david-petraeus-benghazi/
7) Over 700 people were killed last week during a stampede at what holy site?
d) The Islamic holy city of Mecca
The crowd was participating in the ritual of “stoning the devil” when the stampede occurred.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/09/24/middleeast/stampede-hajj-pilgrimage/
8) What did hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli do to make so many people so angry last week?
b) His company raised the price of a common AIDS-treatment drug from $3.50 a pill to $750 a pill.
Shkreli’s company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, bought the drug, Daraprim, in August. Shkreli justified the price hike by saying that the company would use the extra cash to research better treatments for infectious diseases.
9) Donald Trump announced last week that he is boycotting what?
d) Fox News
Trump is boycotting the network because he believes that it has been treating him “very unfairly.”
https://time.com/4046681/trump-boycott-fox-news/
10) What three-time American League MVP passed away last week at the age of 90?
a) Yogi Berra
Berra won ten world championships with the New York Yankees in the 1950s and 1960s. He is also well known for such philosophical utterances as “when you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
https://nypost.com/2015/09/23/35-of-yogi-berras-most-memorable-quotes/