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The weekly news quiz tests knowledge of headlines from the past week. Questions include discoveries of a Norse warrior under a Greenland icecap, a woman injured by police over her untended garden, and snowfall in Buenos Aires. Other questions ask about the selection of Sebastian Faulks to write a new James Bond novel, a school's objection to a student's surname of "Hell", rumors of beasts released in Iraq being identified as honey badgers, and Stonehenge not being selected as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

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The weekly news quiz tests knowledge of headlines from the past week. Questions include discoveries of a Norse warrior under a Greenland icecap, a woman injured by police over her untended garden, and snowfall in Buenos Aires. Other questions ask about the selection of Sebastian Faulks to write a new James Bond novel, a school's objection to a student's surname of "Hell", rumors of beasts released in Iraq being identified as honey badgers, and Stonehenge not being selected as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

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Weekly world news quiz

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

Test your knowledge of world news events in our quiz.

When you've got your result, why not e-mail the quiz to your friends to see how they measure up?

Question 1
What have scientists discovered 2,000 metres below the icecap in southern
Greenland?
A: Butterflies
B: A mammoth
C: A Norse warrior

Question 2
An elderly woman was left bruised and bloody after an unexpected clash
with US police regarding her garden in Utah. Why were police called to
Betty Perry 's house?
A: She allegedly allowed marijuana plants to grow in a hedge
B: She failed to water her lawn
C: She refused to take down a group of garden gnomes

Question 3
"Despite all my years, this is the first time I've ever seen snow in ****."
Where does this 82-year-old, who was speaking this week, live?
A: Buenos Aires
B: Johannesburg
C: Auckland

Question 4
Who has been selected to write a new James Bond book in honour of
author Ian Fleming's centenary?
A: Michael Crichton
B: Sebastian Faulks
C: JK Rowling

Question 5
A Catholic School in Australia was at the centre of a row over a new pupil
who had what they deemed was an inappropriate surname. What was it?
A: Sodom
B: Hell
C: Cruz-Cefix

Question 6
British forces in Iraq have been forced to deny rumours that they had
released "ferocious" beasts into the Basra community. What were they?
A: Badgers
B: Red squirrels
C: Foxes

Question 7
One of the following was NOT selected as one of the Seven Wonders of
the World in a global internet and phone vote. Which?
A: Chichen Itza in Mexico
B: The Colosseum in Rome
C: Stonehenge in England
DNA extracted from ice cores shows that moths and butterflies were living in forests of spruce and pine in the
area between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago.

A police officer had judged that Ms Perry's "sadly neglected and dying landscape" breached an Orem city
guideline and was attempting to issue a formal caution when the 70-year-old was injured.

Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw snow for the first time in 89 years, as a cold snap gripped several South
American nations. Temperatures plunged to -22C (-8F) in parts of Argentina's province of Rio Negro.

The British writer's James Bond novel Devil May Care is set in "several of the world's most thrilling cities"
during the Cold War.

Alex Hell said St Peter the Apostle School, Melbourne, had welcomed his son Max when enrolled under his
mother's maiden name, Wembridge. But they baulked when the family had a change of heart over the surname.
School officials now say Max has a place, but Mr Hell claims they changed their minds because of media
attention.

Word spread among the populace that UK troops had introduced strange man-eating, bear-like beasts into the
area to sow panic. But several of the creatures, caught and killed by local farmers, have been identified by
experts as honey badgers.

The other winners were the Great Wall of China, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, Machu Picchu in Peru, the
Taj Mahal and Jordan's Petra.

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