What A Week: October 21-27
- 1.In an attempt to inject life into his flagging campaign, Rick Perry announced what tax policy this week?
- A.
A tax holiday for anyone earning more than $500,000 a year
- B.
An 8-8-8 plan
- C.
A twenty-per-cent flat tax
- D.
A fifteen-per-cent lumpy tax
- 2.British Prime Minister David Cameron faced rebellion from his own MPs on Monday over a referendum on what issue?
- A.
Female succession to the throne
- B.
Britain’s E.U. membership
- C.
Scottish independence
- D.
Fiscal austerity
- 3.On Sunday, Tunisians voted in their first election since the ouster of dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali earlier this year. What was the turnout?
- A.
Fifty per cent
- B.
Sixty-five per cent
- C.
Eighty per cent
- D.
Ninety per cent
- 4.Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, said on Monday that the organization will have to stop publishing because it no longer has enough of what?
- A.
Server space
- B.
Money
- C.
Employees
- D.
Secrets
- 5.Due to a T.S.A. loophole, what almost found its way onto an Alaskan Airlines flight on Sunday?
- A.
A homemade bomb
- B.
Two live chickens
- C.
A loaded gun
- D.
A pound of cocaine
- 6.Police raided camps set up by Occupy protesters in which two cities this week?
- A.
Atlanta and Oakland
- B.
Atlanta and Boston
- C.
Boston and Oakland
- D.
Boston and New York
- 7.On Sunday, Albert Pujols joined Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson as the third player to hit how many home runs in a World Series game?
- A.
Two
- B.
Three
- C.
Four
- D.
Five
- 8.Which of the following did not occur after last week’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake in eastern Turkey?
- A.
Turkey announced it would accept aid from its estranged ally Israel.
- B.
Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish bases across the border in Iraq.
- C.
A two-week-old baby, who survived two days in rubble, was rescued.
- D.
Structural damage was reported at the New Mosque in Istanbul.
- 9.The New York Times reported on Thursday that the convicted Ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth Madoff, attempted suicide shortly after his December 2008 arrest. Before the attempt, the couple breached a court order by doing what?
- A.
Sending a package of sentimental items to Fred Wilpon, the majority owner of the New York Mets.
- B.
Sending a package of sentimental items to their son.
- C.
Sending holiday cookies to the F.B.I.’s New York Field Office.
- D.
Sending half of their money to a Swiss bank.
- 10.In agreeing to offer relief to Greece, what percentage of Greek debt will private banks and other investors agree to lose?
- A.
Ten per cent
- B.
Twenty-five per cent
- C.
Fifty per cent
- D.
Seventy per cent
- 11.Scientists believe a combination of fatty acids from which animal may lead to treatment of heart disease and other coronary ailments in humans?
- A.
Chimpanzee
- B.
Python
- C.
Elephant
- D.
Cow
- 12.Know your New Yorker: In Andrew Marantz’s story about Vlad Teichberg, which two Naomi’s does he report are often confused by Occupy Wall Street protesters?
- A.
Campbell and Wolf
- B.
Wolf and Klein
- C.
Watts and Campbell
- D.
Judd and Klein
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