Donald Trump's new citizenship plan requires you to successfully take our latest Week to Week news quiz to see how much you know about the week's news.
Here are some random but real hints: We never read the software licenses, either; a veiled threat; he's popularized the term "anchor babies"; and they gave up drinking decades ago. Answers are below the quiz.
1. What was federal District Judge Emmet Sullivan referring to when he said "We wouldn't be here today if this employee had followed government policy"?
a. A federal employee fired for using an online dating site from his work computer
b. Hillary Clinton's email server use
c. The California forest ranger whose campfire led to a fire that destroyed 20,000 acres of old-growth trees
d. The St. Louis police officer accused of shooting a teenager in the back
2. What did Donald Trump tell CNN he would say to the pope if Pope Francis criticized capitalism?
a. "ISIS wants to get you"
b. "Get thee behind me, Satan"
c. "Jesus was the biggest, most successfullest capitalist ever, and we should stop apologizing for that"
d. "Who died and made you king?"
3. What immigration practice did Donald Trump pledge to end?
a. Building border walls
b. Granting citizenship to children born in the United States of noncitizens
c. Allowing family reunification
d. Racial quotas
4. Who argued on Tuesday for expanded NSA surveillance powers to combat "evildoers"?
a. George W. Bush
b. Jeb Bush
c. Hillary Clinton
d. President Barack Obama
5. What did Germany's parliament vote for yet again?
a. The denuclearization of Europe
b. A bill to defund Obamacare
c. A bailout deal for Greece
d. A plan to devalue the euro to increase export competitiveness
6. Yvonne Craig passed away at the age of 78. What iconic comic-book character did she portray in the 1960s?
a. The Green Hornet
b. Wonder Woman
c. Catwoman
d. Batgirl
7. How is Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina trying to get out her message?
a. She hired skywriters to fly over NFL games
b. She had 25,000 cans of Coke custom-made to read "Share a Coke with Carly"
c. She posted a critical one-star review of the TSA on Yelp
d. She is appearing on the new season of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice
8. What leader announced plans to resign and seek new elections?
a. Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff
b. Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha
c. Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
d. The United Kingdom's Prime Minister David Cameron
9. What do two men claim to have discovered in southwest Poland?
a. A downed Russian military drone
b. A wardrobe that leads to Narnia
c. Pope John Paul II's long-lost baptismal outfit
d. A long-rumored train filled with gold but abandoned after World War II
10. Why are divorce lawyers expecting to become very busy?
a. Texas is finally changing an 1882 law that only allowed divorce if it was approved by a church
b. Hugh Hefner's little black book was stolen, and the thief has threatened to release details of the women in it
c. Hackers released details on tens of millions of accounts from a website for married people who cheat
d. The Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that even states that don't have same-sex marriage must honor same-sex divorces
BONUS. How is the Japanese government looking to save money?
a. It will stop giving commemorative silver sake cups for the country's centenarians each year
b. It is reducing its armed forces by 10%
c. The prime minister has cut the size of his cabinet from 32 to 19 officials
d. It has started paying government bills with the Chinese yuan currency
ANSWERS
1) b.
2) a.
3) b.
4) b.
5) c.
6) d.
7) c.
8) c.
9) d.
10) c.
BONUS) a.
Want the live news quiz experience? Join us Tuesday, September 15 in Palo Alto for our next live (and lively) Week to Week political roundtable with a news quiz and a social hour at The Commonwealth Club of California. Panelists include Barbara Marshman and Larry Gerston.
Explanations of the hints: We never read the software licenses, either: Clinton is accused of not abiding by government email rules; a veiled threat: Trump said he'd remind the pontiff that people want him dead; he's popularized the term "anchor babies": the term is used to describe children born to noncitizens in the United States, and Trump wants to end the practice of giving the babies citizenship; and they gave up drinking decades ago: one report noted that some of the centenarians died before their commemorative cups even arrived.