News Quiz
Week of 02/04
1. Only three Republican Senators voted against John Kerry's confirmation as Secretary of State, two of them from which state?
2. The Obama administration has shut down the presidential advisory council that dealt with what issue?
3. It began 100 years ago, on February 3, 1913. What?
4. Which Fox News host is contemplating a run for the United States Senate?
5. Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat embroiled in a growing scandal, heads which Senate committee?
6. Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, a lifelong Democrat who died Friday at age 88, once endorsed which Republican for President?
7. Mayor Koch picked the epitaph for his tombstone: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." Those are the final words of whom?
8. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed Friday above 14,000 Friday for the first time since when?
9. Ratings-challenged CNN has picked a member of a prominent political family to host its daily morning show. Who?
10. Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has challenged President Obama to a one-on-one contest in which sport?