Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge of international events by taking our Weekly World News Quiz based on the past week's main news stories. And don't forget to compete against your friends on Facebook.
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1) A 5,000-year-old warrior’s skeleton was discovered last week in which European capital?
Rome
Athens
London
2) Indian education authorities have asked teachers to refrain from testing their students how?
Monitoring written tests
Using aural examinations
Running over their arms with a motorbike
3) Who did the Pope recently suggest had let him down?
His stylist
His personal trainer
His guardian angel
4) Where was a replica 17th century ship destroyed in a blaze last week?
Sweden
Holland
France
5) Last week China said it would reduce what to an “extremely small number”?
Executions
Births
Marriages
6) Ireland recently agreed to take two people upon their release from which detention center?
Guantanamo Bay
Azkaban
Tower of London
7) Which former Downing St resident passed away last week?
Geoffrey the dog
Frances the pigeon
Sybil the cat
8) Mexican officials closed beaches at Cancun claiming what “ill-gotten, illegally accumulated” item was stolen?
Surf
Sea
Sand
9) In Italy last week, an escort alleged that Silvio Berlusconi offered her what at a party?
Ice-cream
A seat on the European Parliament
A song
10) Where had a Portuguese murderer spent 16 years on the run before his re-capture last week?
In caves
In his office
In Spain
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Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge of international events by taking our Weekly World News Quiz based on the past week's main news stories. And don't forget to compete again...
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge of international events by taking our Weekly World News Quiz based on the past week's main news stories. And don't forget to compete again...
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If HuffPo is going to call this their "Weekly World News Quiz," in the future I'm expecting to see more questions about Bat Boy's exploits, Elvis' alien clones impregnating unsuspecting boaters, etc.
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First Posted: 08- 3-09 03:01 PM | Updated: 08- 3-09 04:18 PM