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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: April 5, 2009

Quiz[edit]

1 The US unemployment rate reached what percentage last month, according to the Labor Department?

7.7%
8.5%
9.0%
10.1%

2 An aeroplane made an emergency landing at what Russian airport on Saturday?

Sheremetyevo, Moscow
Pulkovo, St Petersburg
Sochi
Vnukovo, Moscow

3 A gold mine recently collapsed in Africa, killing no less than a score of people, but in what country?

Togo
Zimbabwe
Tanzania
Lesotho

4 A light earthquake recently struck the San Francisco, California region. What magnitude was it?

4.3
4.4
4.5
5.3

5 Two hundred people were killed in a shipwreck off the coast of what country on Tuesday?

Ethiopia
Egypt
Italy
Libya