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2015 Prognostication Quiz

Entry deadline is 3:30 p.m. CST on Saturday, January 10, 2015 . Send fifteen answers and one tie-break to jmandresen at gmail.com. Anyone with an email address is welcome to enter this FREE contest. The winner receives a deluxe gift bag. Happy guessing! Name:___________________________________ e-mail:___________________________________ 1. Freedom (January) Freedom House is an international organization that studies democracy and freedom in the world, publishing an annual report on how many countries it calculates to be free, partly free, or not free. The 2014 report calculated that 88 of the world’s 195 nations were free in 2013. Will freedom advance, stay stagnant, or retreat in this year’s report, covering 2014? Note: the nine worst free countries (with the highest likelihood of being downgraded) are Botswana, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Lesotho, Montenegro, and Peru. The sixteen best partly free countries (with the highest likelihood of being up