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Take the Last Week in the News Quiz
How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
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Nigeria tanker explosion kills 150
Here's a worrisome situation: Passenger jet pilots in parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East are coping with cyberattacks on planes' navigation systems. The digital attacks can jam Global Positioning System (GPS) devices or spoof the signal...
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Cuba’s power grid collapses again
Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure. The repeated grid collapses marked a ma...
This week's word in the news: ROLLICKING
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FOUND IN THE NEWS:
On a rollicking Sunday night at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers silenced the critics, embraced their birthright and returned to their personal promised land with a 10-5 victory over the New York Mets that gave them a four-games-to-two triumph in the National League Championship Series.
The Los Angeles Times -- 10/21/2024
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