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Fun test
by Rex Sun May 16, 2010 1:39 pm
Just a fun news test I found online. I will post the answers (along with the stories )tommorow. Let's see how many of you will guess the answers. And no googling 
1. After a 13-year manhunt, former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, who had once promised “hell and suffering” for Bosnian Muslims, was arrested and shipped off to face charges of genocide and war crimes. What was Karadzic discovered to be doing at the time of his arrest?
A) Eating Snickers bars in an underground cave
B) Herding sheep in the countryside
C) Chillin wit’ Osama
D) Offering New Age spiritual healing
E) Running a training facility for like-minded Serb extremists
2. In an interview with the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Apostolic Penitentiary Bishop Gianfranco Girotti listed off a set of seven “social sins” to complement the original sixth-century cardinal sins of Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth. Which of the following did the list not include?
A) Polluting
B) Drug abuse
C) Birth control
D) Morally dubious experiments
E) They’re all sins: repent
3. Hanging around, minding their own business, testicles still managed to make their way into the news in 2008. Of the following, what call for balls was not made?
A) Jesse Jackson. Obama’s balls. Severed.
B) Russian President Vladimir Putin. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s balls. In a noose.
C) German scientists. Anyone’s balls. In a laboratory.
D) George W. Bush. His own balls. In his right hand, while watching TV.
E) Florida Senator Carey Baker. Fake balls. Off the road.
4. Taking their cue from the equally greedy and unlikable President of the United States, exploitative retail giant Wal-Mart announced they were introducing an economic stimulus package of their own to help America through its troubled times. What features did the package include?
A) The hiring of additional full-time workers
B) Offering comprehensive and affordable insurance plans to employees.
C) Reduced trading in foreign-produced goods to help boost national production
D) Increased employee salaries by three per cent
E) Tostitos Scoops: two for $5
5. As temperatures hit a delightful 25-degrees under sunny skies, children in Ottawa were treated to what unwelcome addition to their family Canada Day celebrations?
A) A feces bath
B) A parade of topless protestors
C) A display of fireworks and public fornication
D) Melamine-tainted ice cream
E) Some of that old-fashioned, non-child-spoiling rod the Bible talks about
6. Responding to criticism and not just a bit of smarminess, Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad S. Al-Munajjid posted a video to YouTube hoping to dispel the rumour that he had called for the assassination of what world figure?
A) George W. Bush
B) Tony Blair
C) Mickey Mouse
D) Barack Obama
E) Britney Spears
7. What new factor concerning the prisoners of Guanatamo Bay prompted Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to suggest that detainees would now face a worse situation than they had already been in?
A) Barack Obama’s campaign promise to close Guantanamo
B) The contracting of Blackwater mercenaries as camp guards
C) A blurry video of Osama bin Laden urging a prisoner uprising
D) A Supreme Court decision allowing prisoners the right of habeas corpus
E) Tropical storm Noel
8. In the vast swell of knowledge that John McCain vowed to bring to the White House, he was admittedly stuck on some things. Which of the following declarations did McCain not make?
A) “I know how to win wars”
B) “I know how to catch bin Laden”
C) “I know how many houses I own”
D) “I know how to fix the economy”
F) “I know the challenges of space”
9. In his tireless efforts to make France a better place for all, French President Nicolas Sarkozy went to court to try to win a ban against what plague on his nation?
A) A child matador
B) Canadian beef
C) Genetically modified foods
D) Rudeness
E) Voodoo dolls
10. After almost a decade of public service, New South Wales politician Matt Brown was promoted to the esteemed position of Minister of Police. Just a scant 72 hours later, Brown was forced to resign. What prompted Brown’s resignation?
A) His urinating on a crowd at a Grateful Dead tribute band concert
B) His trading building development permits for sex
C) His involvement in the unregulated trade of Aboriginal art
D) His naughty underwear dance
E) His decision to spend $17,000 of ministry funds on a statue of himself for the office
11. A city in Israel began collecting DNA for a database they hoped to use to find the culprits in which of the many crimes tied to the nation in 2008?
A) The soldiers who beat a 57-year-old woman to death in her home
B) The settlers who pushed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy off a four-storey building
C) The dogs whose feces were left littering the streets
D) The Hebron teenagers who threatened to kill a British reporter for photographing them building a stone house on a Palestinian farmer’s land
E) The IDF commander who shot a bound and blindfolded Palestinian protestor in the foot
12. Intending to offer a kinder alternative to abortion, child neglect and abuse, Nebraska introduced a new “safe haven” law allowing parents or legal guardians to anonymously give up their children to any state hospital, no questions asked. What unexpected consequences did the new law have?
A) It drew the outspoken ire of Focus on the Family
B) The abandonment of teens up to 17 years old
C) An immediate cessation of federal hospital funding by an outraged White House
D) A popularity that left 1/3 of the state’s children in foster care
E) None of the above
13. As the effects of ’07’s subprime mortgage catastrophe began sending ripples across the gilded halls of economic centres worldwide, George W. Bush called for $145-billion in tax cuts, saying it would provide a much needed “shot in the arm” to the American economy. What effect did his stimulus package bring about?
A) A surge in consumer spending
B) A near immediate drop in world markets
C) None whatsoever
D) Bi-partisan respect and praise
E) A nationwide feeling of Christmas-come-early
14. A Metro SWAT team surrounded the home of Boston police captain Christine Michalosky, leading to what papers described as an “armed stand-off.” What had the captain, who joined the police force in the ’70s as one of Boston’s first uniformed female officers, done to merit the operation?
A) Finished her Christmas shopping
B) Carried out a bank heist
C) Hired an illegal alien as a housekeeper
D) Tased an unharmed, unconscious mentally handicapped child
E) Made racist threats against the new president
15. As the year drew to a cash-strapped close, the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel, assigned to the task of overseeing how October’s $700-billion bank bailout package was spent, filed their first report. What findings did the report include?
A) That the slowed economy remained slow
B) That banks were in far worse need than originally thought
C) That the COP really had no idea where the money was being spent
D) That all money was on hold until Obama takes office
E) That the hotly debated bailout money was indeed helping Americans get on their feet again
1. After a 13-year manhunt, former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic, who had once promised “hell and suffering” for Bosnian Muslims, was arrested and shipped off to face charges of genocide and war crimes. What was Karadzic discovered to be doing at the time of his arrest?
A) Eating Snickers bars in an underground cave
B) Herding sheep in the countryside
C) Chillin wit’ Osama
D) Offering New Age spiritual healing
E) Running a training facility for like-minded Serb extremists
2. In an interview with the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Apostolic Penitentiary Bishop Gianfranco Girotti listed off a set of seven “social sins” to complement the original sixth-century cardinal sins of Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed and Sloth. Which of the following did the list not include?
A) Polluting
B) Drug abuse
C) Birth control
D) Morally dubious experiments
E) They’re all sins: repent
3. Hanging around, minding their own business, testicles still managed to make their way into the news in 2008. Of the following, what call for balls was not made?
A) Jesse Jackson. Obama’s balls. Severed.
B) Russian President Vladimir Putin. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s balls. In a noose.
C) German scientists. Anyone’s balls. In a laboratory.
D) George W. Bush. His own balls. In his right hand, while watching TV.
E) Florida Senator Carey Baker. Fake balls. Off the road.
4. Taking their cue from the equally greedy and unlikable President of the United States, exploitative retail giant Wal-Mart announced they were introducing an economic stimulus package of their own to help America through its troubled times. What features did the package include?
A) The hiring of additional full-time workers
B) Offering comprehensive and affordable insurance plans to employees.
C) Reduced trading in foreign-produced goods to help boost national production
D) Increased employee salaries by three per cent
E) Tostitos Scoops: two for $5
5. As temperatures hit a delightful 25-degrees under sunny skies, children in Ottawa were treated to what unwelcome addition to their family Canada Day celebrations?
A) A feces bath
B) A parade of topless protestors
C) A display of fireworks and public fornication
D) Melamine-tainted ice cream
E) Some of that old-fashioned, non-child-spoiling rod the Bible talks about
6. Responding to criticism and not just a bit of smarminess, Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad S. Al-Munajjid posted a video to YouTube hoping to dispel the rumour that he had called for the assassination of what world figure?
A) George W. Bush
B) Tony Blair
C) Mickey Mouse
D) Barack Obama
E) Britney Spears
7. What new factor concerning the prisoners of Guanatamo Bay prompted Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to suggest that detainees would now face a worse situation than they had already been in?
A) Barack Obama’s campaign promise to close Guantanamo
B) The contracting of Blackwater mercenaries as camp guards
C) A blurry video of Osama bin Laden urging a prisoner uprising
D) A Supreme Court decision allowing prisoners the right of habeas corpus
E) Tropical storm Noel
8. In the vast swell of knowledge that John McCain vowed to bring to the White House, he was admittedly stuck on some things. Which of the following declarations did McCain not make?
A) “I know how to win wars”
B) “I know how to catch bin Laden”
C) “I know how many houses I own”
D) “I know how to fix the economy”
F) “I know the challenges of space”
9. In his tireless efforts to make France a better place for all, French President Nicolas Sarkozy went to court to try to win a ban against what plague on his nation?
A) A child matador
B) Canadian beef
C) Genetically modified foods
D) Rudeness
E) Voodoo dolls
10. After almost a decade of public service, New South Wales politician Matt Brown was promoted to the esteemed position of Minister of Police. Just a scant 72 hours later, Brown was forced to resign. What prompted Brown’s resignation?
A) His urinating on a crowd at a Grateful Dead tribute band concert
B) His trading building development permits for sex
C) His involvement in the unregulated trade of Aboriginal art
D) His naughty underwear dance
E) His decision to spend $17,000 of ministry funds on a statue of himself for the office
11. A city in Israel began collecting DNA for a database they hoped to use to find the culprits in which of the many crimes tied to the nation in 2008?
A) The soldiers who beat a 57-year-old woman to death in her home
B) The settlers who pushed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy off a four-storey building
C) The dogs whose feces were left littering the streets
D) The Hebron teenagers who threatened to kill a British reporter for photographing them building a stone house on a Palestinian farmer’s land
E) The IDF commander who shot a bound and blindfolded Palestinian protestor in the foot
12. Intending to offer a kinder alternative to abortion, child neglect and abuse, Nebraska introduced a new “safe haven” law allowing parents or legal guardians to anonymously give up their children to any state hospital, no questions asked. What unexpected consequences did the new law have?
A) It drew the outspoken ire of Focus on the Family
B) The abandonment of teens up to 17 years old
C) An immediate cessation of federal hospital funding by an outraged White House
D) A popularity that left 1/3 of the state’s children in foster care
E) None of the above
13. As the effects of ’07’s subprime mortgage catastrophe began sending ripples across the gilded halls of economic centres worldwide, George W. Bush called for $145-billion in tax cuts, saying it would provide a much needed “shot in the arm” to the American economy. What effect did his stimulus package bring about?
A) A surge in consumer spending
B) A near immediate drop in world markets
C) None whatsoever
D) Bi-partisan respect and praise
E) A nationwide feeling of Christmas-come-early
14. A Metro SWAT team surrounded the home of Boston police captain Christine Michalosky, leading to what papers described as an “armed stand-off.” What had the captain, who joined the police force in the ’70s as one of Boston’s first uniformed female officers, done to merit the operation?
A) Finished her Christmas shopping
B) Carried out a bank heist
C) Hired an illegal alien as a housekeeper
D) Tased an unharmed, unconscious mentally handicapped child
E) Made racist threats against the new president
15. As the year drew to a cash-strapped close, the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel, assigned to the task of overseeing how October’s $700-billion bank bailout package was spent, filed their first report. What findings did the report include?
A) That the slowed economy remained slow
B) That banks were in far worse need than originally thought
C) That the COP really had no idea where the money was being spent
D) That all money was on hold until Obama takes office
E) That the hotly debated bailout money was indeed helping Americans get on their feet again
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