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Thursday, 28 November, 2002, 15:08 GMT
Quiz of the week's news
It's nearly the end of the week, but there's no need to let your attention flag. Test yourself in BBC News Online's quiz.

If you don't do very well this week, try again next week.

Who did President Bush send to Kidwell Farm in Virginia?
A: Jenna and Barbara Bush, hoping the twins could drink to their 21st birthdays at the exclusive country club without prying photographers
B: Tom Ridge, who can now open his headquarters thanks to the signing of the Homeland Security Act
C: Katie the turkey, who he saved from Thanksgiving slaughter
The curtain didn’t rise on which of the following on 25 November, 1952?
A: The West End production of Agatha Christie’s whodunit play The Mousetrap
B: Former cricketer Imran Kahn
C: Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy
Who was said to sum up Britain, "its eccentricity, its big heartedness, its strength of character"?
A: Winston Churchill, proposed as the Greatest Briton by Mo Mowlam. Voters in a BBC poll agreed
B: Builder Ian Beesley, thanked by his wife, Lillian, for digging up a speed bump in the road by their house which causes drivers to brake loudly
C: Unibond League football side Vauxhall Motors, praised by their boss Alvin McDonald for knocking QPR out of the FA Cup
Eighty-six nationalities in a grim 3,100-mile journey. Who?
A: The UN weapons inspectors who have returned to Iraq after a four-year gap
B: The Miss World contestants who fled rioting in Nigeria. The beauty pageant will now take place in London
C: The 3,250 passengers and crew of the Disney cruise ship Magic, 200 of whom suffered diarrhoea and vomiting while on a seven-day trip
New figures say Britons have 149, the Dutch have 158 and the French have 167. What, exactly?
A: Firefighters, per 10,000 people
B: Bouts of lovemaking, per year
C: Vegetarians, per 10,000 people
Scientists think the world contains 2,500 more of what than we thought we had?
A: Cockney Sparrows, the birds – synonymous with London - were thought to be declining in the city
B: Cloned babies, the controversial Dr Severino Antinori says he’s been secretly creating the infants
C: Orang-utans, thousands of the ginger swingers have been hiding in a remote Borneo jungle
"Aren't they going to be a little bit worried how they're going to turn this into a real conflict..." Who said it and who are "they"?
A: Iraqi officials welcoming back UN weapons inspectors to Baghdad. "They" being the Bush administration
B: Fire Brigade Union officials. "They" being the government ministers talking tough over the fire strike
C: Evicted Big Brother celebrity Anne Diamond. "They" being TV bosses faced with screening very boring housemates

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