Many of you may have the same short memory problems I have been having recently. I can read something and 2 minutes later can’t remember a thing. So let’s see what you can remember that you most likely read last week and tucked someplace in that head of yours.

1) What old song was thrust into the top 5 for downloaded song due to the death of Margaret Thatcher?

2) What caused spontaneous parties to break out all over Britain last week?

3) Name of the town in Arkansas where Exxon’s pipe leaked a huge amount of oil?

4) In Obama’s proposed budget was the well-known chained CPI social security cuts. There were also cuts to Medicare and what other social safety net program?

5) “Celebrities die in 3s.” Which 3 famous people died within days of each other last week?

6) What state’s Republican Party chair was fired after she changed the locks on the party headquarters and left the state?

7) In an attempt at outreach where did Rand Paul go to make a speech?

8) Paul Ryan still wants to put SS into what?

9) Name of the Colorado governor who signed gun legislation?

10) Name of the Connecticut governor who signed gun legislation

11) Which senators have reached compromise and proposed legislation on gun control?

12) Which senator introduced a bill to break up “too big to fail banks?”

13) This guy promised that if Obama were re-elected, he would be dead or in jail by this spring. Who is breaking his promise as usual?

14) This group will begin grading elected officials on their gun control voting record. What is the group?

15) During the Thatcher regime, a member of the Irish Republican Army died from a hunger strike. Can you remember who that was? (1981)

16) What is the correct name of the current North Korean leader?

17) This rock star said this week that he is “F—ing embarrassed to be a Republican.”

18) What then could he do?

19) What state had a bill introduced into their House to designate a state religion?

20) This week one of the scientists (Robert Edwards) who helped create in vitro fertilization died. Can you remember the name of the first test tube baby?

Well, have you been paying attention?
Here we go! Hang on tight!

1) “Ding Dong The Witch is Dead” from the 1939 “Wizard of Oz” – up to #1 Saturday.

2) Spontaneous death parties that is. The death of Maggie Thatcher.

3) The Americana named town of  Mayflower, Arkansas.

4) LIHEAP was cut also

5) Margaret Thatcher, Roger Ebert, Annette Funicello

6) Alaska

7) Howard University – it went about as well as you could imagine.

8) Wall Street

9) John Hickenlooper

10) Dan Malloy

11) Pat Toomey of Pa. and Joe Manchin of West Va.

12) Bernie Sanders

13) Ted Nugent (we are waiting, Ted)

14) Mayors Against Illegal Guns

15) Bobby Sands

16) Kim Jung Un (Kim is the family name)

17) Kid Rock

18) not sure – I don’t think we want him.

19) North Carolina

20) Louise Brown born 7/25/1978