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Last Updated: Friday, 30 March 2007, 07:20 GMT 08:20 UK
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Weekly world news quiz
The week in questions graphic

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

Question 1
A giant cane toad the size of a small dog and nicknamed Toadzilla was captured in northern Australia. How did cane toads originally come to be in Australia?
A: They arrived aboard a single container ship carrying bamboo furniture in 1976
B: They arrived on sugar container ships from the West Indies in the 1960s
C: They were introduced from Hawaii in the 1930s in a failed attempt at pest control
Question 2
Chinese woman Wu Ping was feeling distinctly overshadowed this week. What was going on?
A: She was getting married to the tallest man in the world
B: Her modest house is now surrounded by a huge building site
C: A giant inflatable MG sports car broke loose and got stuck on her roof
Question 3
"This is an extraordinary story with wide international appeal and resonance." What film was being described?
A: A new drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
B: 300
C: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
Question 4
What is Intrinsa?
A: A sexual stimulant patch applied to the stomach
B: An economic incentive for "failed states"
C: A ‘truth serum’ marketed to police forces around the world
Question 5
US forensic scientists are hoping to exhume the remains of escapologist Harry Houdini in an effort to find out whether he was poisoned to death. Who is suspected of murdering him?
A: Jealous circus acrobats
B: Indian fakirs he had exposed
C: Fake mediums he had debunked
Question 6
US President George W Bush delighted guests at an annual press dinner when he suggested that instead of writing lengthy memoirs like Bill Clinton's he might come up with what?
A: A rap song
B: A pop-up book
C: A 3-D documentary
Question 7
How are the Taiwanese planning to protect the migration of the purple milkweed butterfly?
A: Close a lane on a major highway
B: Divert them around a nuclear power station being built on their usual route
C: Cull the species of bird which decimates the butterfly population

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