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Welcome to the Wikinews World News Quiz, giving you a chance to test your knowledge on this week's news.

Last Updated: October 30, 2007

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1.
California wildfires.
Image: Jeff Turner.
What wind was an important contributor to the California wildfires?
San Diego wind
Santa Anna wind
See 1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate
Chinook wind
Diablo wind

2.
Computer model of the Chang'e 1 spacecraft.
Image: NASA.
China last week launched Chang'e 1, the country's first lunar orbiter. Which of the following statements about that mission is not true?
The lunar probe is named after the Chinese God of the Heavens
See China launches space probe to the moon
The probe will broadcast 30 patriotic Chinese songs when orbiting the Moon
Yang Liwei, the first man who went into space as part of the Chinese space program, told a news agency that he and his fellow taikonauts could form a new branch of the Communist Party in space
China hopes to put a taikonaut on the moon in 10 to 15 years

3. Turkey launched an airstrike against rebels in Iraq. What is the ethnicity of the rebels?

Arab
Sunni
Kurdish
See Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurdish rebels
Shi'ite

4.
File:Burma 3 150.jpg
Aung San Suu Kyi in 1995.
Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi left her house arrest to meet with leaderes of the military junta in what country?
Tibet
China
Myanmar
See Aung San Suu Kyi leaves house arrest to meet with government official
Thailand

5. A United Nations report on the environment from last week called for urgent action to secure the survival of humanity. Which of the following facts is not true, according to the report?

Species are become extinct 20 times faster compared to what the fossil record shows
See UN report: climate change and food shortage major problems for Earth's future
1 of every 10 major rivers will eventually dry up due to increasing irrigation demands
By 2030, developing countries will need 120 million extra hectares to feed themselves
Rising sealevels threaten to flood the land where 60% of the global population lives

6.
Location of Somalia.
A bomb attack on a bus in the capital of Somalia resulted in 15 deaths last week. What is the capital of Somalia?
Addis Ababa
Mogadishu
See Bus explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia kills many civilians
Asmara
Djibouti

7. What country is Somalia currently fighting in a war that began in December 2006?

Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
See Bus explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia kills many civilians
Sudan

8. Oil prices reached an all-time high last week of 91 U.S. dollar per barrel. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the surge?

Subprime mortgages in the U.S.
See Oil prices reach all-time high; pass US$91.00 per barrel
U.S. sanctions against Iran
Fears that Turkey might invade Iraq
Losses from the U.S. oil reserves

9. FEMA employees posed as journalists in a fake press conference in the United States last week. What does FEMA stand for?

Federal Event Monitoring Agency
Federal Elderly Medical Agency
Federal Evaluation and Mediation Agency
Federal Emergency Managment Agency
See FEMA employees pose as fake reporters during press conference

10. What comet suddenly became more than one million times brighter in what scientists labelled as an outburst?

Comet Sherlock
Comet Holmes
See Unexpected comet 'outburst' could be visible for weeks
Comet Watson
Comet Conan

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