1. Who won Tunisia’s presidential election?
2. Who was singer Bryan Adams referring to on Monday when he tweeted the following: “RIP my good friend, you were one of the best rock singers EVER.”
3. Who said this, referring to the price of oil: “Whether it goes down to $20, $40, $50, $60, it is irrelevant.”
4. Princess Cristina de Borbón, the younger sister of King Felipe IV, will be the first member of a Spanish royal family to do what?
5. Why did the Gay Men’s Health Crisis on Tuesday term the FDA’s proposal to end a decades-old prohibition on blood donations by gay and bisexual men “offensive and harmful.”
6. In his Christmas Day message, Pope Francis prayed for the entire world, including for 11 nations that he cited specifically. Name at least six of them.
7. Who said: “He is a guest among brothers of ours in Syria Islamic State.”
8. “He says it’s been his worst Christmas ever,” Ros Bruce, from Essex, U.K., told the BBC, referring to her son, who received an Xbox One for Christmas. What prompted her comment?
Answers:
1) Beji Caid Essebsi, 88, who served in cabinet posts under two authoritarian regimes; 2) Joe Cocker; 3) Ali al-Naimi, the Saudi oil minister, who vowed that his country would not cut production; 4) Face trial, on charges of tax fraud, following a court ruling Monday; 5) Because the proposal would not permit donations from men who have had sex with a man in the last year; 6) Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, Nigeria, Libya, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea; 7) Saif al-Kaseasbeh, father of First Lt. Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh, a Jordanian pilot who was captured by militants with the Islamic State after his jet crashed Wednesday in Syria while on a bombing mission against the militants; 8) A disruption to online services at both Xbox and PlayStation that a group of hackers claimed responsibility for