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

Scientists found this week that being grumpy could be good for you. According to them, a sourpuss is more...

	A: Attentive

	B: Creative

	C: Co-operative

Question 2

What was described as "installing a largely ineffective burglar alarm when the family silver has already been stolen"?

	A: The declaration of Hamid Karzai as Afghan president, after his opponent withdrew from an election run-off

	B: The British Tory party's plans to hold referendums on future EU Treaties, after the Lisbon Treaty was fully ratified

	C: Rock band No Doubt's decision to sue the makers of a music video game over the way they are portrayed in it

Question 3

What has been named as history's greatest scientific breakthrough, in a competition run by Britain’s Science Museum?

	A: Penicillin

	B: The X-Ray machine

	C: The Apollo 10 capsule

Question 4

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, only to demand more time to prepare his case. What did he say he had sacrificed to spend time going through some two million pages of evidence?

	A: Meditation

	B: Writing poetry

	C: Outdoor exercise

Question 5

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss died at the age of 100. What was he a leading exponent of?

	A: Existentialism

	B: Structuralism

	C: Deconstruction

Question 6

A Disneyland theme park is being planned for Shanghai. It will be the Walt Disney Company's fourth outside the US. Where are the other three?

	A: Hong Kong, Paris, Dubai

	B: Tokyo, Paris, Hong Kong

	C: Paris, Tokyo, Dubai

Question 7

German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the first German leader to address US Congress in more than 50 years. What current problem did she compare to the struggle to bring down the Berlin Wall two decades ago?

	A: Afghanistan

	B: Iran's nuclear weapons programme

	C: Climate change

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