NewsTracker Answers for week of Aug. 15, 2011

Q: Rioters looted stores, burned hundreds of buildings and attacked both civilians and police across England last week. Where is England?

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Q: Where did the rioting start?

A. Europe's largest city

B. England's capital

C. World's top financial center

D. All of the above

D. With between 12 and 14 million people in its metropolitan area, the capital city of London is the largest urban area in Europe. According to the World Economic Forum, London also is the top financial center in the world.

Q: Two days after rioting started in London, the violence spread to a major port on England's west coast. What is the name of the port?

A. Edinburgh

B. Belfast

C. Liverpool

D. Dublin

C. Besides Liverpool, rioting hit the major cities of Birmingham and Manchester and many other English cities. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland. Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland, and Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland.

Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron approved the use of water cannons on unruly crowds if it became necessary. The device had never been used in England, but the government had used it in . .

A. Northern Ireland

B. Scotland

C. Wales

D. India

A. Water cannon have been used this summer by police in Northern Ireland and have been a regular sight at disturbances in the province. But despite calls for it to be used on the mainland - including after last years student riots in London - officials have always ruled it out.

Q: Cameron said he was looking to another city for lessons on dealing with gangs and urban rioting. Which city was he talking about?

A. Copenhagen

B. Los Angeles

C. Beijing

D. Havana

B. Communities cannot "arrest their way out" of gang crime, said Bill Bratton, the prime minister's new crime adviser and former police chief in Los Angeles. In 1992, riots sparked by a row over racism spread across Los Angeles.