World news quiz - 21 August 2009

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.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

People from the East and West read facial expressions differently, says a new study, and those from East Asia are liable to mistake the expression for fear as...

1. surprise
   
2. disgust
   
3. anger
   
4. sadness
   

2.) Multiple Choice Question

Angela Merkel tops the Forbes list of powerful women, with the chair of Federal Deposits Insurance second. Which of these women outranks the others?

1. Oprah Winfrey
   
2. Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods
   
3. Queen Elizabeth II
   
4. Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo
   

3.) Multiple Choice Question

Thousands of people from around the world descended on the French village of Pleucadeuc for a festival last weekend. What was it dedicated to?

1. Le Hip-Hop
   
2. Grape-picking
   
3. Twins
   

4.) Multiple Choice Question

Inside the Yurt - the title of a new work by the UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. What is it about?

1. Debate over freeing the dying Lockerbie bomber to Libya
   
2. A tribute to outgoing director of Edinburgh International Book Festival
   
3. An ode to her summer holiday in a yurt in France
   

5.) Multiple Choice Question

Now for a cute animal question. How tall is this six-day-old giraffe at Chester Zoo in the UK?

1. 4ft 3in (130cm)
   
2. 5ft 6in (168cm)
   
3. 6ft 2in (188cm)
   

6.) Multiple Choice Question

"Most are unknown and have no programme for the future." Who said this about whom?

1. Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran on the new government
   
2. Afghan election organiser Azizollah Ludin on presidential candidates
   
3. New US ambassador to the UK, Louis Susman, on the European Commission
   

7.) Multiple Choice Question

What makes a male flying fox attractive to females, according to new research?

1. Sharp teeth
   
2. High levels of testorone
   
3. A powerful odour
   

Answers

1. East Asians were more like to read a Westerner's "fear" as "surprise" - this is because they focus mainly on the eyes, whereas those from the West scan the whole face.
2. It's Ms Nooyi, of PepsiCo, placed third on the list. Kraft's Ms Rosenfeld is sixth, Ms Winfrey is at 41, and the Queen at 42.
3. It's twins, triplets and more at the Deux et Plus gathering. These two belong to separate sets of triplets.
4. Inside then Yurt is written as a farewell to Edinburgh book festival director Catherine Lockerbie, stepping down after nine years. It is a homage to the festival from the point of view of a writer - from inside the author's tent, often refered to as "the yurt".
5. It's 5ft 6in (168cm) - about one-third of the height of an adult animal. On Monday the zoo launched a name-the-giraffe appeal for the new arrival, born on 11 August.
6. It was Azizollah Ludin. He made the comment in May about the candidates bidding in Thursday's vote to replace Hamid Karzai as Afghan president.
7. It's testosterone. Male flying foxes with large "harems" of females tend to have higher levels of the hormone, according to a report in the Royal Society journal, Biology Letters.

Your Score

0 - 2 : Flapping about

3 - 4 : Spreading wings

5 - 7 : High flyer