NewsTracker Answers for week of Oct. 24, 2011

Q: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, who led Libya through 40 years of erratic, authoritarian rule, was captured and killed last week by rebel fighters. Where is Libya?

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Q: Qaddafi had been in hiding since August when rebels captured Libya's capital of . . .

A. Algiers

B. Benghazi

C. Tripoli

D. Cairo

C. With a population of about 1.8 million people, Tripoli also is the largest city in Libya. The eastern port city of Benghazi was the first headquarters of the rebellion against Qaddafi.

Q: The revolution that toppled Qaddafi after a bloody six-month campaign was part of a larger movement called the Arab Spring. Which of these Libyan neighbors also ousted a long-time ruler this year?

A. Algeria

B. Sudan

C. Chad

D. Tunisia

D. The country was governed by the authoritarian regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from 1987 to 2011 before he fled during the Tunisian revolution. Tunisia this week held the the first free election of the Arab Spring. Protests in Algeria led to the lifting of a state of emergency but did not oust the nation's authoritarian rulers.

Q: After a 30-year-reign, Hosni Mubarak was ousted by Arab Spring protests in Egypt, another Libyan neighbor. Egypt is . . .

A. North of Libya

B. East of Libya

C. South of Libya

D. West of Libya

B. Libya is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.

Q: During his rule, Qaddafi was linked with guerrilla groups and terrorist attacks, including the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie in . . .

A. Scotland

B. France

C. Canada

D. Libya

A. Just before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland, killing the 259 passengers and crew members on their way from London to New York and 11 people on the ground. The United States and Scotland issued indictments against two Libyan intelligence officers for the bombing.