Take the world news quiz

At the end of the year, test your powers of recollection with our world news quiz

What became legal in 12 countries on 1 January 2002 and has had its highs and lows since then?

	A: Private consumption of cannabis

	B: Sale of condoms to under 16s

	C: The euro

Which world leader said to another: "You are very rude and I have never been spoken to like this before"?

	A: Gerhard Schroeder to George W Bush

	B: Jacques Chirac to Tony Blair

	C: Yasser Arafat to Ariel Sharon

Which actor who played Napoleon, Mussolini and Al Capone in films and won an Oscar for his portrayal of a bigoted town sheriff died in July 2002?

	A: James Coburn

	B: Leo McKern

	C: Rod Steiger

There was little common ground between Israel and its Arab neighbours this year, but Israel and Jordan agreed on a joint project to save something this year - what was it?

	A: The desert leopard of Negev

	B: The Dead Sea

	C: Biblical sites in the Jordan valley

Who is Lula, and why was he or she in the headlines in 2002?

	A: A 1960s Scottish singing star who revived her career with a global hit

	B: A cloned calf which offered new ways of breeding dairy cattle

	C: A trades union leader who became president of Brazil

What is the Malaysian island of Penang doing to attract more tourists?

	A: Offering cosmetic surgery

	B: Offering free flights to and from the mainland

	C: Allowing tourists to shoot wild elephants

Which unfortunate animal was involved in a murder mystery in a Kenyan game reserve, and ended up dying after being drugged?

	A: A lion

	B: A giraffe

	C: An elephant

The US likes to have the biggest and best of everything, but a tiny organism is threatening the future of which of these national icons?

	A: The Grand Canyon

	B: The Everglades alligator

	C: California's Giant Redwood trees

Which high profile American said in a speech: "The glass ceiling was broken and I hope that this ceiling is shattered forever."

	A: Colin Powell, recalling his feelings on becoming the first black secretary of state

	B: Halle Berry, on becoming the first black woman to win a best actress Oscar

	C: Hillary Clinton, looking back on her first year as a senator

South African Mark Shuttleworth became the first of his countrymen to do what?

	A: Walk from Cape Town to Cairo

	B: Reach the South Pole

	C: Travel into space

Who did Indian authorities call to account for breaking strict conservation laws in the Himalayas this year?

	A: More than 1,000 Western mountaineers, whose rubbish litters large areas of protected land

	B: The Indian air force, after reports that it had used remote areas to test missiles

	C: Soft drinks companies Coca Cola and Pepsi, after unauthorised adverts appeared painted onto rock faces

Which sports team known as the Lions beat their old colonial rulers, whose symbol is a cockerel, only to lose to Turkey?

	A: Senegal

	B: British Lions

	C: Brazil