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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: February 3, 2008

Quiz[edit]

1

Suharto
Former Indonesian president Suharto died in a Jakarta hospital Sunday. How old was he?

84
86
90
101

2 British PM Gordon Brown met with which PM or president this week who held talks in Brussels, Paris, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and now in London to shore up European support for his government?

Pervez Musharraf
George W. Bush
Stephen Harper
Mary McAleese

3 Which country has one of the highest gun-related death rates in the world?

New Zealand
United States
Venezuela
China

4 An international manhunt was launched after a ring was uncovered harvesting which body part in India?

Kidney
Heart
Lung

5 Which high-level al-Qaeda leader was reported dead?

Osama bin-Laden
Ayman al-Zawahiri
None
Abu Laith al-Libi

6 75 million people were left without Internet access after the undersea cables were damaged. In which continent did this happen?

Middle East and Asia
Africa
South America
Oceania

7 NASA will beam a song by which group to space?

Queen
Beatles
Abba
They weren't going to beam any song into deep space anyways.

8 How many people were shot dead in a Chicago, United States clothing store?

2
3
4
5

9 As of 1533 UTC how many people were killed by an earthquake in Rwanda?

28
30
40
60