Current Events Quiz
October 1-5, 2012

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

Elections

2-3) Who is participating in this?

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney

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

Democratic

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?

Whether is complies with the requirements of a secret ballot

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

Watergate caught numerous public officials lying, including the president of the United States

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.)

 Home prices