Current Events
Week of April 11 – 15, 2011

Questions:

1. What 150th anniversary did the U.S. Postal Service commemorate this week with the release of commemorative stamps of Fort Sumter and Bull Run?

2. What well-known businessman and reality show television personality says he will “probably” run for president in 2012?

3. What popular consumer product did Cisco Systems, Inc., announce this week it will drop

4. Rebels are appealing to NATO to help them fight off attacks of leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in this country.

5. Former president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalized after being summoned back to this country for questioning about corruption while he was in power.

6. Government officials raised the severity level of the nuclear crisis in this country.

7. A former leader was captured but gunfire and looting indicate things aren’t going to settle down quickly in this West African country.

8. At least 12 were killed and more than 200 injured in a bombing in the Minsk metro in this country.