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Show NEWS QUIZ 1 Know your news? Each of the following questions counts 20. Score: 101. excellent: 80, good: 60, average; 40, poor; 20 or 0, tsh! tsk! -UNITED STATES' . ,, ,. Pacific &J3.fiZfr 1. Arrow on above map points to Lagunillas, Venezuela. It was in the news because: (A) the new U. S.-Venezuela trade pact was signed there; (B) 500 were killed in a fire; (C) a two-hea-led baby was born there. 2. The Neva river, running through Leningrad, Russia, overflowed over-flowed its banks although no dams or dykes were broken, and no rain fell. Russia blamed Finland. Fin-land. Why? 3. Thousands of trees uprooted in the 1938 New England hurricane hurri-cane have just been disposed of., How? 4. What former senator from California recently boomed President Pres-ident Roosevelt for a third term? 5. Prince Frederidk Wilhelm, youngest son of the former German Ger-man crown prince, was reportedly: reported-ly: (A) beheaded as an anti-Nazi plotter; (B) hinted as Adolf Hitler's Hit-ler's successor; (C) killed at the western front. (Answers at bottom of column.) |