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It’s the World News 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much global news from the past week you’ve read, heard and watched… and how much has stayed lodged in the old grey matter.
1.) Multiple Choice Question
Jordan Romero, 13, has become the youngest person to climb Everest. Now, he wants to climb Cho Oyu, on the Nepal-China border. Why does he have to climb it from China?
China controls all access to the mountain
To shelter from fierce southerly winds
Nepalese law bans young climbers
2.) Multiple Choice Question
The shuttle Atlantis completed its final mission this week, ending a 25-year career in space. What will happen to it when it retires?
Nasa will recycle it
It will be put in a museum
It will be turned into a restaurant in Florida
3.) Missing Word Question
Hubble spots a * -eating star
Gravity
Planet
Meteor
4.) Multiple Choice Question
Who said what had “gotten complex”?
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussing the social networking site’s privacy settings
BP chief executive Tony Hayward on the latest “top kill” plans to cap the oil leak
Michelle Obama explaining immigration policy to a seven-year-old schoolgirl from Peru
5.) Multiple Choice Question
A Swiss man went to court to secure the right to walk naked outdoors. He’s testing a law, one region, that prohibits nude hiking. Locals complained he caused offence by walking past…
The mayor’s wife
A church
A communal barbecue area
6.) Multiple Choice Question
Relations between North and South Korea hit a low this week, in the wake of the sinking of a S Korean warship. Why are the two states “technically” at war?
N Korea has torn up a north-south military pact
Both sides have violated a peace treaty
The Korean War ended without a peace treaty
7.) Multiple Choice Question
Jabulani was in the news this week. What is it?
The official football World Cup ball
A type of antelope. In Kazakhstan an epidemic has killed 12,000 of the creatures.
The film that won the prestigious Palme D’or award at Cannes
Answers
It’s the Nepalese law. Under-16s are prohibited from climbing high peaks - but there is no such restriction in China. Mount Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest peak in the world.The shuttle will be displayed in a museum. Nasa has announced that it would seek to preserve the space shuttles for the historical record. The shuttles began flying in 1981 and are being retired due to cost and safety concerns.It’s planet. The Hubble Space Telescope captured evidence of a Sun-like star “eating” a nearby planet. Astronomers knew that stars were capable of swallowing planets in orbit around them, but this is the first time the event has been “seen” so clearly.It’s Facebook privacy. After a lot of pressure, the company is bringing in new privacycontrols for its users. Meanwhile, Mrs Obama, who was asked why her husband was seeking to expel undocumented aliens from the US, said that the government was working on this issue and that everybody must work together to find a solution.It’s the communal picnic spot. The hiker in question was fined after eyewitnesses complained. They say he also walked past a Christian care home, whose residents saw him.It’s the lack of a peace treaty. The US fought on the South Korean side during the1950-53 Korean War, which ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. North Korea has long demanded a permanent peace agreement.It’s the football. Jabulani apparently means “be happy” or “celebrate” in Zulu. The antelope is the saiga, and the surprise win of Cannes was Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, by a Thai director.Your Score
0 - 1 : C-lister
2 - 3 : B-lister
4 - 5 : A-lister
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