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Some of the past few weeks questions on the current events website that many schools use.

10 POINTS President Obama promised WHAT city that it will not be forgotten during a four-hour visit last week? New Orleans

40 POINTS The nation’s nurses have an idea for how to improve health care by allowing them to do WHAT, and hope Congress passes the Employee Free Choice Act? Unionize

40 POINTS In a town-hall-style meeting in New Orleans, nine-year-old Tyren Scott asked WHO the five-word question, “Why do people hate you?”, which he answered by saying that it just comes with the job? President Obama

10 POINTS WHO won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize last Friday in a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism? President Obama

80 POINTS WHAT politician, who couldn’t dance and consistently got low scores but was never voted off, finally called it quits on Dancing With The Stars last week due to stress fractures in both feet? Tom DeLay

20 POINTS MULTIPLE CHOICE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and National Republican Congressional Committee had a war of words over the Committee’s call for her to be WHAT? a) “put in her place” b) “removed now” c) “quiet, she talks too much” a) “put in her place”

40 POINTS In a close New Jersey governor’s race, one of the latest ads shows one candidate’s large girth as he is getting out of a SUV with the narrator saying the candidate threw WHAT to get out of parking tickets? His “weight around”

President Reagan once fired them all, but mediators for the Obama administration have reversed a Bush-era pay cut for WHAT 15,000 government safety workers and have promised equipment upgrades? Air-traffic controllers

80 POINTS The latest talking point from Republican leaders in the health care debate is to call it WHAT kind of increase? Tax increase>

40 POINTS WHAT former Republican Speaker of the House’s group, American Solutions for Winning the Future, picked a Dallas “gentlemen’s club” owner as its 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year winner, only to rescind the award later? Newt Gingrich

AND THE ICING ON THE CAKE

80 POINTS The White House website blog used its “Reality Check” to push back against WHAT right wing commentator and WHAT network over the Chicago Olympic bid? Glenn Beck and Fox News