Weekly world news quiz

It's nearly the end of another week... Just how much do you remember about the headlines from the past seven days?

Test your knowledge of news events from around the world in our quiz.

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Question 1

Which of the following proposals succeeded this week?

	A: A plan to get more Indian women MPs

	B: An initiative to change Canada's national anthem by making it more gender-inclusive

	C: A proposal in Switzerland to appoint state-funded lawyers to represent animals in court

	D: All three proposals

Question 2

The death of "Granny D" was announced this week. Who was she?

	A: An elderly activist who walked across the US to urge changes in election campaign funding

	B: The officially-recognised world's oldest woman

	C: A great-grandmother who marked her 99th birthday last year by sky-diving

Question 3

Scientists say one of our closest primate relatives, the bonobo, has shown what some had thought to be an exclusively human trait. What was it?

	A: Exchanging a kind of "currency" - in this case multi-coloured pebbles - for food items

	B: Using a form of sign language with a deaf member of the family group

	C: Sharing food voluntarily

Question 4

Bank of America has apologised to a woman in Pennsylvania after a contractor seized what from her home while wrongly repossessing it?

	A: An ancestor's tombstone

	B: Her pet parrot

	C: A cherry tree from her backyard

Question 5

Picking up an Oscar for best supporting actress for her role in the film Precious, Mo'Nique paid tribute to a previous black Academy Award winner. Which one?

	A: Hattie McDaniel, Gone with the Wind, 1939

	B: Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost, 1990

	C: Halle Berry, Monster's Ball, 2001

Question 6

US rapper Lil Wayne has pleaded guilty in New York over what offence?

	A: Having a gun on his tour bus

	B: Swearing during a live televised performance

	C: Failure to pay thousands of dollars in parking fines

Question 7

A US official apologised after describing a world leader's comments as "lots of words, not necessarily a lot of sense". About whom was he speaking?

	A: Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

	B: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran

	C: Muammar Gaddafi of Libya

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