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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 18, 2009

Quiz[edit]

1 The newly elected Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, made his first foreign visit to which country this week?

Italy
Turkey
Cyprus
France

2 Earlier this week, an historical agreement was signed between which two countries?

United Kingdom and Germany
Spain and Portugal
North Korea and South Korea
Turkey and Armenia

3 How many people were killed by suicide bombing attacks near the Swat Valley in Pakistan?

41
48
53
67

4 American singer and actor Al Martino died at what age this week?

75
78
82
84

5 British singer Leona Lewis was assaulted at a book signing in a Waterstone's store in which English city?

London
Manchester
Birmingham
Bristol

6 Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister, recently announced that more troops were being sent to Afghanistan. How many troops did he say were set to go to the country?

100
250
500
1000

7 A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia on Saturday. What was the magnitude of the earthquake?

Magnitude 6.2
Magnitude 6.4
Magnitude 6.6
Magnitude 6.8