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Last Updated: August 23, 2009

Quiz

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1 In Afghanistan's presidential election, which candidate was widely regarded as being the incumbent Hamid Karzai's leading challenger?

Ramazan Bashardost
Sarwar Ahmedzai
Abdullah Abdullah
Mohammad Hashem Taufiqui

2 Major wildfires in Greece have killed how many people over the past weekend?

None
3
7
12

3 Suspected hijackers of the ship Arctic Sea were detained by which country's navy earlier last week?

Poland
United States
Finland
Russia

4 Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt set the record for what two sprint records at championships recently?

200m and 400m
100m and 200m
200m and 400m
400m and 1km

5 The English Wikipedia, the self-described free, online encyclopedia anyone can edit, recently reached what milestone in its number of articles?

2 million
2.5 million
3 million
3.5 million