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Welcome to the Wikinews World News Quiz, giving you a chance to test your knowledge on this week's news.

Last Updated: October 30, 2007

Quiz

1

California wildfires.
Image: Jeff Turner.

What wind was an important contributor to the California wildfires?

	San Diego wind
	Santa Anna wind
	Chinook wind
	Diablo wind

2

Computer model of the Chang'e 1 spacecraft.
Image: NASA.

China last week launched Chang'e 1, the country's first lunar orbiter. Which of the following statements about that mission is not true?

	The lunar probe is named after the Chinese God of the Heavens
	The probe will broadcast 30 patriotic Chinese songs when orbiting the Moon
	Yang Liwei, the first man who went into space as part of the Chinese space program, told a news agency that he and his fellow taikonauts could form a new branch of the Communist Party in space
	China hopes to put a taikonaut on the moon in 10 to 15 years

3 Turkey launched an airstrike against rebels in Iraq. What is the ethnicity of the rebels?

	Arab
	Sunni
	Kurdish
	Shi'ite

4

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Aung San Suu Kyi in 1995.

Opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi left her house arrest to meet with leaderes of the military junta in what country?

	Tibet
	China
	Myanmar
	Thailand

5 A United Nations report on the environment from last week called for urgent action to secure the survival of humanity. Which of the following facts is not true, according to the report?

	Species are become extinct 20 times faster compared to what the fossil record shows
	1 of every 10 major rivers will eventually dry up due to increasing irrigation demands
	By 2030, developing countries will need 120 million extra hectares to feed themselves
	Rising sealevels threaten to flood the land where 60% of the global population lives

6

Location of Somalia.

A bomb attack on a bus in the capital of Somalia resulted in 15 deaths last week. What is the capital of Somalia?

	Addis Ababa
	Mogadishu
	Asmara
	Djibouti

7 What country is Somalia currently fighting in a war that began in December 2006?

	Djibouti
	Eritrea
	Ethiopia
	Sudan

8 Oil prices reached an all-time high last week of 91 U.S. dollar per barrel. Which of the following factors did not contribute to the surge?

	Subprime mortgages in the U.S.
	U.S. sanctions against Iran
	Fears that Turkey might invade Iraq
	Losses from the U.S. oil reserves

9 FEMA employees posed as journalists in a fake press conference in the United States last week. What does FEMA stand for?

	Federal Event Monitoring Agency
	Federal Elderly Medical Agency
	Federal Evaluation and Mediation Agency
	Federal Emergency Managment Agency

10 What comet suddenly became more than one million times brighter in what scientists labelled as an outburst?

	Comet Sherlock
	Comet Holmes
	Comet Watson
	Comet Conan