NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 21, 2011

Q: A brutal crackdown on protesters last week killed more than 200 people and injured another 900, according to doctors in Benghazi, Libya's second largest city. Where is Libya?

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Q: Witnesses said troops used machine-guns, mortars, large-caliber weapons and even a missile against protesters challenging four decades of rule by a . . .

A. King

B. Muslim Imam

C. Colonel

D. President-for-life

C. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi seized power in a 1969 coup and ruled the oil-rich nation virtually unopposed until now. He is the Arab world's longest-serving leader.

Q: A wave of anti-government demonstrations swept across the Arab world after protesters in Tunisia ousted their president who had ruled for 30 years. Where is Tunisia located?

A. On Libya's western border

B. On Libya's eastern border

C. On Libya's southern border

D. In the Persian Gulf

A. Tunisia is west of Libya. On Libya's western border, protesters forced Egypt's Hosni Mubarak from power earlier this month.

Q: Libya wasn't the only nation where anti-government protesters were killed last week. Troops - mainly foreigners hired by King Hamad - opened fire on the Persian Gulf island of . . .

A. Yemen

B. Bahrain

C. Jordan

D. Dubai

B. Doctors said they were beaten and ordered not to treat pro-democracy demonstrators who had been shot or severely beaten as they slept in the main square of Bahrain's capital. Protesters also were killed in Yemen.

Q: Where DIDN'T people take to the streets last week to protest against their leaders?

A. Iran

B. Jordan

C. Morocco

D. Saudi Arabia

D. Saudi Arabia has the most oil wealth and is one of the most religiously conservative nations in the region. It's absolute monarchy has been both pressured for reform and faced growing Islamist violence. But, it has not yet faced the public protests that are shaking its neighbors.