Are you up on the news?

Take today’s Daily Quiz and see if you’re up to speed.

Answer each question correctly:
  1. U.S. Senate Democrats just reached a healthcare compromise. Did it include a hotly-disputed public (Government-run) option?
  2. Which former technology company will be spun off form its disastrous 2001 merger with a well-known media giant?
  3. What award will President Obama soon pick up?
  4. Which sports star’s commercials have been pulled from TV? Why has this occurred?
  5. Five Americans were arrested on suspicion of being linked to extremist groups. Where were they arrested?
  6. Congress just authorized subpoenas for the couple who crashed a recent White House dinner. Is this true or false?
  7. South Carolina lawmakers decide not to impeach their Governor for his use of state-sponsored travel to visitly his mistress in Argentina. Is this true or false?
  8. A Chicago resident was charged related to what event that happened about a year ago?
Answers:
  1. No it did not.
  2. AOL will no longer be part of Time-Warner.
  3. The Nobel Peace Prize
  4. Tiger Woods. The details of Woods’ private life, involving numerous adulterous affairs and possible drug use, have been coming out nearly every day.
  5. Pakistan
  6. True. But, the couple has vowed to “take the Fifth” (Amendment or freedom from incriminating themselves) and refuse to answer questions.
  7. Unbelievably enough, it’s true.
  8. The Mumbai hotel bombing.
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