It’s nearly the end of another week… Just how much do you remember about the headlines from the past seven days?
Test your knowledge of news events from around the world in our quiz.
When you get your result, you can click through to the stories we published on each subject. Then, why not e-mail the quiz to your friends to see how they measure up?
Question 1Nato has announced it is to close down burger bars and pizza joints in its bases across Afghanistan. Why?
A: Because soldiers were putting on weight
B: To encourage soldiers to eat local produce
C: As part of a drive to cut back on non-essentials
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Question 2Which of these was described as “the biggest of its kind in human history”?
A: The particle collision experiment of the Large Hadron Collider
B: The Indian census
C: The US decision to ease restriction on oil drilling off the coast of America
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Question 3A group of British politicians said this week that the “special relationship” between the UK and the US was over and that London needed to be less deferential to its long-time ally across the pond. Who coined the phrase “special relationship”?
A: Franklin D Roosevelt in 1945
B: Winston Churchill in 1946
C: John F Kennedy in 1962
D: Margaret Thatcher in 1982
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Question 4A jibe by US comedian Robin Williams describing Australians as “rednecks” this week upset the nation’s leader Kevin Rudd. He told Williams that he should spend some time in Alabama before referencing rednecks. This, in turn, offended the governor of Alabama. Who else could have been riled by Williams’ remarks?
A: The English
B: The Irish
C: The Scottish
D: The Welsh
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Question 5Cher’s child asked a Los Angeles judge this week to allow him to formally change his gender. What is the name of the child, and what would they like it to be?
A: Purity and Pip
B: Chastity and Chaz
C: Hope and Harry
D: Honour and Hunter
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Question 6Common toads can sense an impending earthquake and will flee their colony days before the seismic activity strikes, biologists said this week. As an example used by the scientists, which area were toads said to have fled days before a recent earthquake?
A: Padang in Sumatra, Indonesia in October 2009
B: Concepcion, western Chile, in February 2010
C: L’Aquila, Italy in April 2009
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Question 7It’s dinosaur discovery of the week, and another headline from the BBC web pages. Fill in the missing word: “XXX dinosaur fossil discovered in China”.
A: Godzilla
B: Roadrunner
C: Shrek
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