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Last Updated: December 6, 2009

Quiz

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1 British actress Maggie Jones died at what age last week?

71
73
75
77

2 According to reports, at least how many people were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a boat sank last week?

73
74
75
76

3 The Ashmolean Museum, the oldest museum in the United Kingdom, was officially reopened by Queen Elizabeth II last week. In which English city is it located?

Cambridge
Oxford
London
Bristol

4 A suicide bombing incident in a hotel in Somalia killed at least how many people?

6
12
15
19

5 American botanist Lou Jost discovered the world's smallest orchid last week. How wide were the flowers?

2.0mm
2.1mm
2.2mm
2.3mm

6 Professional wrestler Eddie Fatu died at what age last week?

30
32
34
36

7 Vyacheslav Tikhonov, a Russian actor who was most famous for Stirlitz in the famous television series, "Seventeen Moments of Spring", died at what age last week?

75
81
87
93