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Last Updated: Friday, 17 March 2006, 01:56 GMT

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Weekly world news quiz

It's the end of another week... Just how much do you remember about the headlines from the past seven days?
Test your knowledge of world news events in our quiz.
When you've got your result, why not e-mail the quiz to your friends to see how they measure up?

Question 1

Why did authorities in Pakistan ban the traditional kite-flying event marking the advent of spring?


	A: For causing too many deaths


	B: Because it has been decreed un-Islamic


	C: Because children were playing truant to take part

Question 2

What is said to have caused "much more excitement... than the death of [former Yugoslav President] Slobodan Milosevic" in Serbia-Montenegro this week?


	A: The shock victory of the Red Star Belgrade football team against Roma


	B: A row over whether a Serbian or Montenegrin band should represent the country in the Eurovision song contest


	C: The opening of an IKEA bargain furniture store in Montenegro's capital, Podgorica

Question 3

Singer Isaac Hayes has quit cartoon show South Park after doing voiceovers since its debut in 1997 because of its "ridicule" of what?


	A: Religion


	B: The civil rights movement


	C: The film Shaft, for which Hayes sang the acclaimed theme tune

Question 4

What incident prompted a Norwegian woman to say she was in "heaven" this week?


	A: She turned on her kitchen tap and beer flowed out


	B: She won the country's inaugural national lottery


	C: She discovered oil in her back garden

Question 5

Archaeologists in Egypt this week announced that a chamber unearthed last month in the Valley of the Kings was not a royal tomb as initially thought, but a...


	A: Stonecutters' workshop


	B: Drinking den


	C: Embalming chamber

Question 6

This week marks the anniversaries of three events. Put them in the correct chronological order:


	A: The first successful docking in space; death of Sir Alexander Fleming; US massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai


	B: The US massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai; the first successful docking in space; death of Sir Alexander Fleming


	C: Death of Sir Alexander Fleming; the first successful docking in space; US massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai

Question 7

South Korea's prime minister was forced to resign this week for acting "indiscreetly". What was he doing instead of dealing with a national railway strike?


	A: Playing golf


	B: Taking part in a sudoku championship


	C: At a ski resort in the east of the country

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