Current Events Quiz Week of Oct. 1 – 5, 2012

1.  What event related to the presidential campaign takes place Wednesday night?

El 1st Presidential debate. DUH...

2 - 3. Who is participating in this?

Obama & Romney.

4. A big topic in the news: polls indicating how the presidential candidates are doing. One survey released this week showed Barack Obama with a HUGE lead (44 percentage points) with what group of voters?

Midwest voters?
Folorida, Ohio, & Pennsylvania, "Swing" states.

5. One voting controversy concerns what item that some states are saying voters need to have with them to be allowed to cast a ballot?

Social secrity cards.

6. What are some saying officials refused to provide before the fatal attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya last month?

The officials did not provide Marines for better security measures.

7. In a story that’s not exactly new, whose remains did police think they may have found last week in Michigan after he has been missing since 1975? (Now they say, no, that’s not him.)

Jimmy Hoffa.

8. Sales of what item reached the highest level in four years this week? (HINT: Foreign ones did better than domestic.)

The automotive sales were reaching their record high this week.