1. What African leader threw himself a birthday party that reportedly cost more than $1 million and featured elephant on the menu?
2. What Latin American leader said that his country had captured U.S. citizens involved in espionage?
3. Tens of thousands marched through Moscow on Sunday to mourn this opposition leader, who was shot dead near Red Square.
4. Who told the U.S. Congress: “I deeply regret that some perceive my being here as political.”
5. Which of the following volcanoes erupted this week?
a) Llaima, b) Etna, c) Tungurahua, d) Villarrica
6. A man wielding a knife attacked the U.S. ambassador to what country?
7. Sohu, one of China’s major Internet portals, announced a deal to create a Chinese-language version of what American TV program?
8. Scientists at work in Ethiopia have unearthed a jawbone from 2.8 million years ago. What is the main significance of the find?
a) It represents the oldest known evidence of an ape-like creature, b) It represents the earliest evidence of the human genus; c) It establishes that humans developed in parallel across Africa
Answers
1) Prime Minister Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe; 2) President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela; 3) Boris Nemtsov; 4) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel; 5) d; 6) South Korea; 7) Saturday Night Live; 8) b