1) Which of the following countries joined the United States in airstrikes on IS in Syria?
e) All of the above
The strikes were aimed not only at IS but also another terrorist group called Khorosan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/24/world/middleeast/us-isis-syria.html?_r=1
2) Military veteran Omar Gonzalez recently broke into what facility while carrying a knife?
b) The White House
Gonzalez made it all of the way into the east Room before he was apprehended.
3) Eric Holder resigned last week. What position did he hold in President Obama’s cabinet?
a) Attorney General
The Attorney General is the head of the Justice Department. Holder has held the job since 2009.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/us/politics/eric-holder-resigning-as-attorney-general.html?_r=1
4) Last week, President Obama had dinner with the head of state of what country?
d) India
While the others ate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi only sipped warm water as he was engaged in a religious fast.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/30/politics/obama-modi-dinner/index.html
5) Who officiated the same sex wedding of Mitchell Reich and Patrick Pearsall last week?
a) Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
Reich is Justice Kagan’s former law clerk.
https://time.com/3419841/elena-kagan-same-sex-marriage/
6) The Rockefeller family foundation recently decided that it would no longer invest the family fortune in what?
b) Oil
It is re-investing part of that money into renewable energy. Family patriarch John D. Rockefeller built the family fortune by founding Standard Oil in 1870.
https://theweek.com/article/index/268613/why-the-rockefellers-are-betting-on-renewable-energy
7) The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States occurred in what state?
b) Texas
The patient, a Liberian named Thomas Eric Duncan, had allegedly been caring for an Ebola victim in Liberia before coming to the United States to visit family.
https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health/us-ebola-patient/index.html
8) Last week, the United States agreed to pay $554 million to what group to settle a lawsuit?
a) The Navajo Nation
The lawsuit claims that the federal government mismanaged tribal assets and natural resources found on the Navajo reservation.
9) George Clooney got married last week. Where was the wedding?
b) Venice, Italy
He married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
10) Who hit a walkoff RBI single in his final at bat at Yankee Stadium last week?
d) Derek Jeter
Jeter is 40 and has spent his entire career with the New York Yankees.