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Weekly world news quiz

Mr Obama with his daughter Sasha in the Oval Office
Daughter Sasha sneaks up on her father in this White House photo

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
The White House released a photograph of President Obama's daughter Sasha sneaking up on her father as he works at his desk - evoking a famous 1963 image of John F Kennedy Jnr playing underneath the same desk. The desk was a present from Britain's Queen Victoria to a US president. Which one?
A: John Quincy Adams
B: Rutherford B Hayes
C: Theodore Roosevelt
Question 2
What is the first lesson that Chinese children are being told they must learn this school year?
A: To love their country
B: To master technology
C: To value competition
Question 3
Whose actions were described as a "stab in the back" this week?
A: Russia's, for its role in World War II
B: The Commonwealth's after it suspended Fiji's membership
C: The Zambian president's, after he ordered some 200 monkeys to be evicted from Senate House
Question 4
A treasured piece at the Dutch national museum - a supposed moon rock from the first manned lunar landing - has been revealed to be what instead?
A: Petrified wood
B: A dinosaur egg
C: Fossilised human faeces
Question 5
Who was warned by a top diplomat to mind how he conducted himself during a planned trip to a UN meeting in New York?
A: Robert Mugabe
B: Silvio Berlusconi
C: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Question 6
A woman in New Zealand lost her accounting job after sending "confrontational" e-mails. They were deemed offensive because they were filled with...
A: Block capitals
B: Red type
C: Underlining
Question 7
Complete this headline from the BBC News website: "We're all XXX, say scientists"
A: Missing links
B: Mutants
C: Related

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