Monday, January 25, 2010

News Quiz

Question: By focusing on what one White House official calls “the sandwich generation” — struggling families squeezed between ______ — President Obama hopes to use his State of the Union address on Wednesday to demonstrate that he understands the economic pain of ordinary Americans.

Answer: Sencding their children to college and caring for elderly parents.

Question: Republicans are luring new candidates into House and Senate races, and the number of seats up for grabs in November appears to be growing, setting up a midterm election likely to be harder fought than anyone anticipated before the party’s big victory in ______ last week.

Answer: massachusetts

Question: Tohono O’odham Nation, an Indian reservation in ______, is caught between the U.S. and Mexico as a major transit point for drugs as well as people.

Answer: Arizona

Question: As officials focused Sunday on the Herculean task of Haiti’s physical recovery — clearing the wreckage and setting up housing for the ______ left homeless by an earthquake — desperate relatives of those still missing pleaded with the authorities not to give up the search.

Answer: hundreds of thousands

Question: Garrett Hartley’s 40-yard kick in overtime sent the New Orleans Saints to a 31-28 victory over the ______ and onto their first-ever Super Bowl appearance.

Answer: Minnesota Vikings

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