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Weekly world news quiz

It's nearly the end of another week... Just how much do you remember about the headlines from the past seven days?

Test your knowledge of news events from around the world in our quiz.

When you get your result, you can click through to the stories we published on each subject. Then, why not e-mail the quiz to your friends to see how they measure up?

Question 1

US President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress this week. What did he say was as "popular as a root canal"?


	A: Healthcare reform


	B: The bank bailout


	C: The war in Afghanistan

Question 2

Scientists have identified the world's most highly sexed bird. Which is it?


	A: The saltmarsh sparrow


	B: The greater yellow-headed vulture


	C: The black-bellied bustard

Question 3

Chinese engineers have begun creating a road through previously inaccessible mountains to connect Nepal to Tibet. They are naming it after the film Avatar because of claims the area inspired scenery in the fantasy blockbuster.


	A: True


	B: False

Question 4

The World Economic Forum is under way in Davos, Switzerland. Who, in a keynote speech, said capitalism needed to be "re-engineered" to restore its "conscience"?


	A: George Soros


	B: Bill Clinton


	C: Nicolas Sarkozy

Question 5

Wearing running shoes may have changed the way in which many of us run, new research suggests. Results showed that "shod" runners tended to strike the ground with which first...


	A: Heel


	B: Forefoot

Question 6

A Muslim woman in Switzerland this week failed to overturn a ban stopping her from wearing a headscarf while doing what?


	A: Teaching in a school


	B: Reading the television news


	C: Participating in a sports event

Question 7

Scientists have for the first time scientifically established the colour of a dinosaur. What distinguishing feature did the smallish meat-eating dinosaur in question have?


	A: A mohican-style crest


	B: A spotted tail


	C: A ridge of spikes running down its back

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