Hold on a sec, vacationers: Test yourself on news first
Hey, vacation time is coming, and you’re probably planning to take a short rest from current events, too. So let’s see how well you’ve been keeping up over the past few months:
1. During his book tour, former FBI head James Comey called the president of the United States ...
A. “Insecure.” B. “Misinformed.” C. “Orange.”
2. Meanwhile, the president called Comey a ... A. “Lousy litigator.” B. “Dopey diarist.” C. “Slimeball.”
3. Rudy Giuliani said he might be reluctant to let Donald Trump be interviewed by Robert Mueller because ...
A. “My client lies a lot.” B. “Truth is relative.” C. “We’re negotiating for a deal to turn this into a reality show.”
4. Giuliani told an interviewer he was very fond of Ivanka Trump and would do almost anything to protect the first daughter. On the other hand, Jared Kushner was a fine man, “but ...
A. “You can have too many millennials.”
B. “He sort of reminds me of that guy whose parents sued to evict him from the house.”
C. “Men are, you know, disposable.”
5. About the money Donald Trump gave Michael Cohen for Stormy Daniels: The president explained that his lawyer got a monthly retainer he could dip into whenever somebody needed to be paid off. Trump tweeted that such agreements ...
A. “Are very common among celebrities and people of wealth.”
B. “Are very common among adulterous presidential candidates.”
C. “Are just like, you know, giving the landscape guy a slush fund for weed killer.”
6. Rep. Raúl Labrador of Idaho, a leading member of the House Freedom Caucus ...
A. Ran for House speaker but lost to Rep. Roger Retriever.
B. Was one of a bunch of Republican congressmen rejected when they tried for statewide office in the early primaries.
C. Appeared on a reality TV series in which he was stranded on a desert island with Gov. Butch Otter of Idaho.
7. Don Blankenship, a Republican candidate for senator in West Virginia, attributed his primary loss to ...
A. The explosion at his mine that killed 29 people.
B. The fact that he’s a legal resident of Nevada.
C. Lack of support from Trump.
8. One of the two finalists for the Republican governor’s nomination in Georgia ran an ad in which he ...
A. Erects a statue of an 8-foot bullet in his front yard.
B. Points a shotgun at a teenage boy.
C. Shows off a flamethrower named Sparky.
9. Mike Pence’s older brother Greg won a congressional nomination in Indiana. Earlier in his career, Greg took over the family’s chain of convenience stores and ...
A. Drove it into bankruptcy.
B. Made a local business magazine’s list of 10 Sexiest Retailers.
C. Introduced a new line of Hoosier Hot Dogs.
ANSWERS: 1-C, 2-C, 3-B, 4-C, 5-A, 6-B, 7-C, 8-B, 9-A