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Last Updated: June 2, 2010

Quiz

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1 BP recently attempted a procedure known by what name, in an effort to halt the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico?

Dome-kill
Drill-pipe
Top kill

2 An experimental Boeing aircraft recently broke what aviation record?

Highest altitude
Longest cruise without refueling
Longest powered hypersonic flight

3 :"[i]t is important to send a clear message ... that provocative actions have consequences." Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, commented this about what ongoing event?

North Korea's sinking of a South Korean vessel
Israel's storming of a Gaza ship
BP's sudden decision to stop its "top kill" method for sealing up the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico

4 A bomb attack by rebels in what Russian city recently was the cause of several deaths?

Groznyy
Stavropol
Volgograd

5 Last week saw the black boxes from an Air India flight that crashed near an airport being recovered; what is the suspected cause of the disaster?

The cabin depressurized shortly before landing
The airplane overran the runway
The pilot lost control over system hydraulics