It's Wednesday! Current events quiz

Current Events Quiz


Week of Jan. 11 – 15, 2010

E-mail me with your answers, OK? First one with all correct answers gets choice of Hershey's chocolate product.

rickburd@cox.net




Questions:

1. What former vice presidential candidate is now going to be a television news contributor?

Extra credit: Which channel?



2. What comedian, moved to prime time from late night in September, will be pulled from that spot before the Olympics begin in February?



3. A trial got underway this week to try to overturn California’s Proposition 8, which is a ban on what?



4. What state legislature this week approved medical marijuana for the chronically ill and its governor said he would sign it into law? (HINT: It’s the 14th state to do this but one of the few on the East Coast.)



5. What state has had such cold weather in the last week that both its major orange crop and its iguanas (which fell out of trees when they were too cold to hold on) are in danger?



6. One hundred-year-old Miep Gies died this week. She was the Dutch woman responsible for saving whose diaries in 1944?



7. What country had a major earthquake registering 7.0 near its capital Tuesday?



8. The Supreme Court refused to hear a case this week about a student in Texas who wanted to do what?



 
R.Burd
WHS
Wickenburg, Ariz.