Quiz Answers
July 4 2016
1) According to statistician and political prognosticator Nate Silver, what are the chances of Donald Trump becoming president?
b) 20%
Silver correctly predicted 49 of 50 states in the 2008 presidential election and all 50 states in the 2012...
June 7 2016
1) Donald Trump recently lashed out at the media over their coverage of what issue?
b) The coverage of the fraud trial involving Trump University
Trump has referred to the trial judge, who was born in Indiana, as “the Mexican judge” because the judge’s parents were born in Mexico. He has also...
May 30 2016
1) A recent U.S. drone strike killed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, the leader of what group?
c) The Afghan Taliban
At Mansoor’s instruction, the Taliban has recently refused to engage in peace talks with the Afghani...
February 15 2016
1) Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died last week at the age of 79. Which president nominated him to the Court?
b) Ronald Reagan
Scalia was the longest-serving Justice on the Court at the time of his death. He died in his...
February 8 2016
1) Who won the Iowa caucus on the Democratic side?
a) Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
Clinton won a close race, 49.8% to 49.6%. The candidates will split Iowa’s delegates to the Democratic...
February 1 2016
1) What two presidential candidates came out on top in the final major poll released before Monday night’s Iowa caucuses?
b) Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
The Des Moines Register is considered to be the “gold standard” of Iowa caucus...
January 24 2016
1) The most important newspaper in Iowa, the Des Moines Register, recently endorsed what two presidential candidates?
b) Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio
The six-person editorial board of the newspaper decides which candidates to endorse; the editorial board is entirely separate from the news...
January 18 2016
1) Last weekend, the United States and five other countries announced that they would lift economic sanctions against what country?c) IranThe sanctions are being lifted because the IAEA determined that Iran is in compliance with the July 2015 deal that circumscribes Iran's nuclear program. ...
January 11 2016
1) President Obama recently issued an executive order that requires federal agencies to do what?c) Require more background checks on gunsAmong other things, the order aims to decrease the number of gun sales that are done without a background check on the purchaser. ...
January 3 2016
1) Congress recently passed – and President Obama signed – a budget for FY 2016 that included how much in spending for the next fiscal year?
c) 1.1 trillion
The bill was viewed as a compromise where both Republicans and Democrats got some of they wanted, but not everything they...