Wikinews:Dynamic quiz/quiz/2010/11

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Last Updated: March 14, 2010

Quiz

1 A transportation commission in New York City recently claimed which of the following?

	That public buses in the city are expending unhealthy amounts of exhaust
	That a quarter of public buses had not been maintained or inspected within the past three years
	That some of the city's taxi drivers were charging illegally high fares for rides
	That one of the tunnels connecting Manhattan to the mainland was in imminent danger of collapsing

2 A vaccination campaign in Africa was launched recently, targeting 85 million children, to help eradicate what disease?

	Polio
	Measles
	Malaria
	Smallpox

3 Earlier last week, paleontologists reconfirmed the cause of dinosaur extinction; what was it?

	Supervolcano eruption
	Asteroid impact with earth
	The start of an ice age
	None of the above

4 Brazil introduced sanctions on some US goods last week, among them cotton products, because ...

	The authorities believed the goods were of very poor quality
	Brazilian officials believed US cotton growers were not paying workers enough
	US cotton growers received illegal subsidies from the US government

5 Twitter reached what milestone in its total number of "tweets" last week?

	100 million
	1 billion
	5 billion
	10 billion