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News quiz, week ending Jan. 30

1. Who was sworn in as Zambia’s president?

2. What first did Paulina Vega achieve?

3. What did Tiger Woods debut at the Phoenix Open?

4. What is Syriza and why does it matter to the European Union?

5. Tuesday marked how many years since the Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz?

6. Apple sold an average of how many iPhones worldwide every hour of every day in the quarter that ended Dec. 31?

a) 18,000, b) 25,000, c) 34,000

7. What is the Manot cranium and what is its significance?

8. Who is Rita Jeptoo and what punishment did she receive?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers:

1) Edgar Lungu, who served as defense and justice minister until his election; 2) The 22-year-old became the first Colombian to be crowned Miss Universe; 3) The teeth he had repaired after being hit in the mouth by a camera while watching girlfriend Lindsey Vonn race in Italy; 4) A far-left party in Greece that won Sunday’s parliamentary elections on a platform to renegotiate a €270 billion bailout of the country by the EU; 5) 70; 6) c; 7) A 55,000-year-old fossil of a skull found in a cave in Israel. The fossil offers evidence that early humans migrated out of Africa and across Eurasia, possibly interbreeding  en route with Neanderthals, according to a paper published Wednesday by an international team of researchers; 8) Three-time winner of the Boston Marathon and two-time winner of the Chicago Marathon who received a two-year ban from the sport for doping