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Last Updated: November 8, 2009

Quiz

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1 The automobile manufacturer GM said it would cut how many jobs at its Opel branch?

10,000
15,000
25,000
A

2 The French structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss died at what age earlier this week?

89
97
100
101

3 Convicted coup plotters from which African country were pardoned and released earlier this week?

Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Lesotho
Equatorial Guinea

4 According to scientists, what will happen due to global warming in the next two decades?

Sea levels worldwide will rise by two feet
The snow on Mount Kilimanjaro will completely melt
Average temperatures worldwide will increase by 1 degree Fahrenheit
Antarctica will lose 20% of its ice

5 Which US automobile company posted unexpected profits earlier this week?

Chevrolet
Ford
General Motors
Chrysler