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News quiz, week ending Nov. 28

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