Wikinews:Dynamic quiz/quiz/2007/48

Welcome to the Wikinews World News Quiz, giving you a chance to test your knowledge on this week's news.

Last Updated: November 25, 2007

Quiz
{Who is the newly elected Prime Minister of Australia? + Kevin Rudd - Stanley Bruce - Gabriel Pollard - Peter Costello
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 * See Australia Votes 2007: Rudd to become 26th Prime Minister

{Two computer discs containing the personal data of 25 million U.K. citizens were found out this week to be missing. They were sent from a Revenue & Customs office in what British city? + Washington - York - Newcastle - Cambridge
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 * See UK government loses personal information of 25 million people

{English team manager Steve McClaren was sacked by the Football Association last week after the team failed to qualify for the Euro 2008 tournament. When was the last time England failed to qualify for a major tournament? - UEFA Euro 2000 - UEFA Euro 1996 + FIFA World Cup 1994 - FIFA World Cup 1990
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 * See Euro 2008 Qualification: England vs. Croatia

{What is the name of the Canadian cruise ship with over 150 passengers that sank in the Antarctic this week? - MS DOS - MS Firefox - MS Macintosh + MS Explorer
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 * See MS Explorer cruise ship passengers are safe

{Which Russian chess grand master was arrested last Saturday for leading opposition protests against President Putin? - Anatoly Karpov + Garry Kasparov - Vladimir Kramnik - Alexander Litvinenko
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 * See Chess grand master Kasparov arrested after protest

{Italy saw a political scandal this week after wiretaps revealed that some media outlets favoured Silvio Berlusconi when he was Prime Minister of Italy. What is the name of the Italian public television station mentioned in this affair? - Italia Uno - Canale Uno - Mediaset + RAI
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 * See Political scandal in Italy: reported interference on major media

{On Thursday, Colombia ended Hugo Chávez' negotiations efforts with the FARC militia. What does the acronym FARC stand for? - Freedom through Revolution and Anarchy in Colombia - Fighters Against the Rulers of Colombia + Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia - Communist Armed Rebel Forces
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 * See Colombia ends Chávez-FARC mediations

{The Spanish King's outburst to Hugo Chávez was reported to have reached cult status; what did Juan Carlos I say to the President of Venezuela? - ¡Callaste! + ¿Por qué no te callas? - ¡Eres fascista! - ¿Por qué no vuelvas a tu país?
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 * See Spanish King's 'shut up' to Chávez becomes ringtone

{Wikinews interviewed the senior anchorwoman of Naked News, a Canadian program that presents the news completely bare. Which of the following is not a quote from that interview? - "sensual, but not sexual" - "I believe the secret to our success is that we challenged the accepted boundaries while keeping it clean and tasteful." - "I think we have a friendlier way of delivering the news" + "our viewers want to keep abreast of the hot issues"
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 * See Naked News presents a new style of news

{Two astronauts went on a spacewalk to complete a new room of the International Space Station. What is the name of this new room? + Harmony - Destiny - Unity - Felicity
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 * See International Space Station astronauts complete spacewalk


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