Weekly world news quiz

As the week draws to a close it's time again to test your powers of recollection with our weekly world news quiz.

What items have Germans been sending en masse to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to express their anger with his policies?

	A: Hair dye products

	B: Dirty underwear

	C: Shirts

A woman in Japan was found guilty this week of murdering four people by lacing what type of food with arsenic?

	A: Chicken soup

	B: Curry

	C: Sushi

Serbia failed for a second time this week to elect a new president, and now looks set to hold a third election. This is because:

	A: The International War Crimes Tribunal is preventing Slobodan Milosevic from running

	B: Too few voters turned out at polling stations

	C: Mafia gangs have stolen more than 10% of the ballot boxes

How did a Malawian man escape from the jaws of a crocodile this week?

	A: He shouted abusive names at it

	B: He bit it on the nose

	C: By running in a zig zag line

"All were completely legitimate". Who or what was American lawyer Mark Geragos defending this week?

	A: Doctors who issued prescribed drugs to actress Winona Ryder

	B: Oscar nominations for animated characters Stuart Little and Lilo and Stitch

	C: A consignment of Scud missiles intercepted en route for Yemen

Who or what caused more than 26,000 schools and colleges in mountainous Nepal to close for two days this week?

	A: Inspections which revealed that many school buildings are suffering from serious subsidence

	B: A cold spell that sent temperatures plunging way below zero

	C: A Maoist student protest against the "commercialisation" of education

One of the world's oldest known prostheses went on display this week. What is it, and who was its owner?

	A: A false leg suspected of belonging to notorious 18th Century pirate Blackbeard

	B: A wooden toe found still attached to the foot of a mummy in a Cairo museum

	C: A ceremonial golden finger belonging to Roman emperor Caligula