Bill O'Reilly: News Quiz

1. The Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly hit 15,000 Friday for the first time since when?

2001

2007

2008

2010

Never

2. President Obama has renwed an earlier promise that he failed to keep. What?

Close Gitmo

Lower medical costs

No lobbyists in administration

Enact cap-and-trade legislation

Start paying down the national debt

3. Two of the college students accused of hiding evidence for their classmate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are citizens of which former Soviet republic?

Tajikistan

Uzbekistan

Kyrgyzstan

Kazakhstan

Turkmenistan

4. A federal judge has ruled that the "morning-after" emergency contraception pill should be available at drug stores with what restrictions?

Pharmacist must be consulted

Parental consent for minors

Minimum age of 15

Prescription only

No restrictions

5. Its price reached an all-time high Friday. What?

Oil

Beef

Gold

Cotton

Platinum

6. According to Forbes magazine, who is the wealthiest individual on the planet?

Carlos Slim

Charles Koch

Warren Buffett

Bernard Arnault

Alwaleed Al Saud

7. Penny Pritzker, the President's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, is worth about $2 billion, much of it derived from family ownership of which hotel chain?

Hyatt

Hilton

Motel 6

Marriott

Radisson

8. Left-wing radical Joanne Chesimard, who is in Cuba and wanted for the murder of a state trooper in 1973, received what distinction last week?

Named Cuba's Secretary of Tourism

Reached #1 in the FBI Most Wanted list

First woman on FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list

Gave televised speech to May Day crowd in Seattle

Appointed professor-in-abstentia by Columbia University

9. Which was the last thoroughbred to win horse racing's Triple Crown?

Affirmed, 1978

Alysheba, 1987

Big Brown, 2008

War Emblem, 2002

Smarty Jones, 2004

10. The Washington DC City Council has urged the Washington Redskins to change the team name to what?

Redtails

Big Red

Redbirds

Red Bulls

Red Scare