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?

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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