While everyone else injures themselves trying to buy a discount blu-ray player, try your hand at our latest Week to Week news quiz and see what really makes the world go around.
Here are some random but real hints: LOL; fellow Democrat Jackie Speiers agreed; making anti-social media; and and not like making an oath. Answers are below the quiz.
1. After Belgians were told not to post anything on social media about police activity during the local ISIS threat, how did Belgians respond?
a. The posted on social media about police activity anyway
b. They filled their social media feeds with cat postings
c. They stopped using social media altogether
d. They hacked local ISIS Twitter accounts and filled their feeds with Christmas tree photos
2. What did Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) say about U.S. policy toward ISIS?
a. ISIS is growing in strength and "We need to be aggressive now"
b. Fighting ISIS is a waste of tax dollars
c. U.S. policy should focus on visa and immigration restrictions to deter migration of radicals
d. Iran and Saudi Arabian troops should be leading the anti-ISIS fight on the ground
3. Conservative Mauricio Macri ended a dozen years of leftist rule when he was elected president of what country?
a. Brazil
b. Chile
c. Columbia
d. Argentina
4. How is Pfizer, Inc., planning to reduce its U.S. tax bill?
a. It will sell half of its American subsidiaries
b. It is converting its lower-margin businesses into nonprofit subsidiaries
c. In a $160 billion "tax inversion" deal, it will buy Allergen and moves its headquarters to Ireland
d. It is converting all salaries for its executives to lower-taxed stock options
5. Why did German police arrest a man in connection with the Paris terrorist attack?
a. He is believed to have fled to Berlin after helping plan the attack
b. He is suspected of supplying weapons to the Paris gunmen
c. He was seen fleeing the Bataclan concert hall and ditching handguns immediately after the attack
d. He posted supportive messages about the ISIS terrorists on Facebook
6. A group responsible for an armed anti-Muslim protest at a Dallas-area mosque last week did what this week?
a. Posted on Facebook a list of addresses and other personal information of more than 60 local Muslims and "Muslim sympathizers"
b. Staged a sit-in at the First Dallas United Methodist Church, claiming it had become a hotbed of "pro-papal anti-Americanism"
c. Issued a press release saying they weren't aware there were any Muslims in the Islamic center they protested
d. Claimed they were armed so they could protect the Muslims
7. An attacker surrendered Friday afternoon after a shooting and armed standoff where in Colorado Springs?
a. A synagogue
b. A Planned Parenthood building
c. A Social Security office
d. A Best Buy store
8. What action by Donald Trump did The New York Times call "outrageous"?
a. Mocking the disability of a Times reporter
b. Promising to erase the federal deficit "faster than the World Trade Towers collapsed"
c. Shooting an unarmed black man who was trying to run away
d. Insinuating that Hillary Clinton was gay
9. Why are world leaders from 150 countries arriving in France this weekend?
a. Paris is holding a three-hour memorial for the victims of the ISIS Paris attacks
b. Talks on the World Trade Partnership Protocol take place this week in Paris
c. France is hosting a global environmental summit
d. An Asterix convention
10. What did The New York Times say Republican candidates were doing more and more, inspired by Donald Trump?
a. Giving money to Hillary Clinton
b. Opposing U.S. military action in the Middle East
c. Publicly swearing
d. Threatening to run as third-party candidates
BONUS. France has agreed to water down a climate deal due to pressure from whom?
a. Big oil
b. Small oil
c. The United States
d. Saudi Arabia
ANSWERS
1. b.
2. a.
3. d.
4. c.
5. b.
6. a.
7. b.
8. a.
9. c.
10. c.
BONUS. c.
Want the live news quiz experience? Join us Monday, November 30 in downtown San Francisco 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 will include Carson Bruno, Carla Marinucci, and Dr. James Taylor.
Explanations of the hints: LOL: the internet was basically made solvent by LOLcats; fellow Democrat Jackie Speiers agreed: Feinstein and Speiers have both said the U.S. approach has fallen short; making anti-social media: they used social media to spread the personal data; and not like making an oath: that's right--they were cursing, not swearing allegiance.