1) As of Monday, August 8, 2016, Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump by how many percentage points in the Real Clear Politics polling average?
a) 2.3
b) 4.6
c) 7.2
d) 9.4
2) What former Republican Senate candidate and Republican fundraiser said last week that she would be voting for Hillary Clinton in November?
a) Carly Fiorina
b) Meg Whitman
c) Sarah Plain
d) Nikki Haley
3) It was recently reported that President Obama authorized the payment of $400 million in cash for the release of Americans held in what country?
a) Saudi Arabia
b) Russia
c) Venezuela
d) Iran
4) On Wednesday, President Obama set a new record by commuting the sentences of how many federal inmates?
a) 29
b) 78
c) 214
d) 1,654
5) Last week, President Obama ordered an expansion of U.S. airstrikes against ISIS into what country?
a) Iran
b) Saudi Arabia
c) Turkey
d) Libya
6) The Supreme Court of what state recently declared the death penalty to be unconstitutional?
a) California
b) Delaware
c) New Jersey
d) Florida
7) For the first time on record, an American caught Zika from the bite of a local mosquito. In what city did this occur?
a) Miami, Florida
b) Gulfport, Mississippi
c) Santa Barbara, California
d) El Paso, Texas
8) What billionaire agreed to release his tax returns if Donald Trump will?
a) Mark Cuban
b) Mark Zuckerberg
c) Warren Buffett
d) Bill Gates
9) Last week, the International Olympic Committee banned over 100 athletes from participating in the Rio games because of a doping scandal. The athletes were all from what country?
a) United States
b) Cuba
c) Russia
d) China
10) How many new jobs were generated / lost in America in the month of July?
a) 255,000
b) 35,000
c) -56,000
d) -143,000
11) Scientists recently discovered a new species of what?
a) Lion
b) Lizard
c) Whale
d) Hummingbird
12) What man recorded his 3,000th major league hit last weekend?
a) Alex Rodriguez
b) Miguel Cabrera
c) David Ortiz
d) Ichiro Suzuki