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Last Updated: December 19, 2008

Quiz

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1 In which country did a bus full of tour guides crash, killing 26 and injuring 12?

China
Israel
Nigeria
Russia

2

Yahoo! announced that it will purge user data after 3 months, compared to what duration for Google?

6 months
9 months
12 months
15 months

3 According to the United Nations, how many people have died of a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe, as of December 16?

968
978
988
998

4

Mark Vinar, an Australian climber from Perth, has died after falling from New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook. A while ago, a Japanese climber had also died on that mountain. What was his name?

Kiyoshi Ikenouchi
Yuichiro Miura
Hideaki Nara
Ichiro Yoshizawa

5 About what percent of the Somali parliament recognized the legitimacy of Nur Hassan Hussein's government?

65%
75%
85%
95%