News Quiz
Week of 2/03
1. The Department of Justice will seek what punishment for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhakhar Tsarnaev?
2. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who was found dead Sunday at age 46, won an Academy Award for his portrayal of which American author?
3. While speaking about the job market last week, President Obama seemed to denigrate one particular college major. Which?
4. The proposed Keystone XL pipeline would transport crude from Canadian oil sands to which U.S. state?
5. One CEO had a choice seat at President Obama's State of the Union speech. Who?
6. Which Democratic Representative is retiring after 40 years in Congress?
7. Meanwhile, another long-serving Democrat is definitely running again, saying, "My work is not finished." Who?
8. The upcoming Winter Olympics will be held in the Russian city of Sochi, which is on what body of water?
9. MSNBC has been forced to apologize yet again, this time for an offensive tweet related to what product?
10. Meanwhile, which former CNN mainstay says that network has major problems that seem intractable?