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Today's News Quiz

News Quiz

Last updated: 1-Jan-00 20:40 PM

  1. Elliot Richardson, who just died at age 79, served as which president's attorney general?

    • Eisenhower
    • Carter
    • Reagan
    • Nixon

  2. Two prison guards in Iowa were fired for doing what to an inmate?

    • Tattooing
    • Insulting
    • Tickling
    • Spanking

  3. The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a boat near Miami carrying some 300 refugees from where?

    • China
    • Cuba
    • Peru
    • Haiti

  4. A woman held hostages for eight hours at a bank in the town of Olathe in which U.S. state?

    • Tennessee
    • South Carolina
    • Kansas
    • Maine

  5. Where did Russia's new president, Vladimir Putin, go on New Year's Day?

    • Beijing
    • Chechnya
    • Rome
    • Washington, D.C.

  6. Which Parisian tourist attraction reopened Saturday after a two-year renovation?

    • Jeu de Paume Museum
    • Sainte Chapelle
    • Arc de Triomphe
    • Georges Pompidou Center

  7. Shortly after midnight on January 1, a monitoring system failed at a nuclear power plant in which country?

    • Brazil
    • Japan
    • France
    • Ukraine