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1. This player won the World Chess Championship for the second year in a row.

2. The board of this US university adopted a policy of zero tolerance for sexual assaults on campus.

3. The Obama administration issued rules Wednesday to curb emissions of this greenhouse gas.

4. A first folio of Shakespeare’s plays surfaced this week at a library in northern France. The discovery brought to how many the world’s known total of surviving first folios of the bard’s plays?

5. This star cricket player from Australia died Thursday after being hit on the neck during a delivery.

6. This US Supreme Court justice returned home from the hospital, where doctors inserted a stent in the justice’s right coronary artery.

7. This president on Friday was the first non-African head of state to visit a country at the center of the Ebola outbreak. Who is the leader and what country did he visit?

8. This piece of film memorabilia sold Monday for more than $3 million.

Answers:

1. Magnus Carlsen of Norway; 2. The University of Virginia; 3. Ozone; 4. 233; 5. Phillip Hughes; 6. Ruth Bader Ginsburg; 7. French President Francois Hollande, Guinea; 8. The Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard of Oz

Here are eight questions that test how closely you’ve followed the news during the past week. My love for such quizzes was rekindled a few years ago by the Financial Times, which publishes a quiz at the end of each year. This week I decided to compile a quiz of my own.

1. In his address to the nation on Thursday about immigration, which former president did President Obama quote?

2. This surgeon died from Ebola on Monday at Nebraska Medical Center.

3. On Tuesday, four people were killed in an attack on a synagogue in what city?

4. The editors of the Oxford Dictionary selected this word as the word of the year.

5. An executive with this startup publicly suggested investigating the private lives of journalists who criticize the company?

6. Yahoo and Firefox agreed this week to do what?

7. China inked its largest-ever foreign investment pact. What is it?

8. Mike Nichols, who died this week at age 83, won the Academy Award for Best Director of this 1968 film.

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Answers

1. George W. Bush

2. Dr. Martin Salia

3. Jerusalem

4. Vape

5. Uber

6. Starting in December, the Firefox browser will use Yahoo as its default search engine, replacing Google.

7. A $12 billion contract to build roughly 870 miles of railway along the coast of Nigeria

8. The Graduate