Current Events

Citizen Bee questions in the Current Events category will be based on a number of sources. There are no Study Guide entries for this category.

For the Texas Citizen Bee State Competition Current Events portion of the Bee, study the following:

• National and world headline news stories from September 1, 2010 through April 15, 2011
• Major actions of Congress since January 1, 2010- April 15, 2011
• Newsworthy stories related to the President of the United States
• The two U.S. Senators from Texas
• Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 terms
• Major U.S. Supreme Court cases from the 2009-2010 term of the court and upcoming cases from the 2010-2011 term of the Court
• Names of the heads of “the big four” Cabinet departments: State, Defense, Justice, and Treasury.
• Major stories concerning the “big four” Cabinet departments
• Major leaders in both houses of the 112th U.S. Congress
• Texas politics