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It was a banner year for news junkies.The death of a pope. The selection of a new one. BTK. Terri Schiavo. Katrina. Iraq. London bombings. Pakistan earthquake. White House indictments.
But how much attention were you REALLY paying? Here’s our 25-question, tougher-than-our-usual-weekly-news-quiz test — your chance to measure your news-junkie mettle (and a good excuse to avoid that holiday-time chin-wag with boring old Uncle Charlie).
","You answered of questions correctly. Scroll down to see answers for each question. Also, please let us know what you think about the quiz. The feedback is appreciated.");
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[1][0] = new Array("George W. Bush was sworn in for a second time as president of the United States on Jan. 20. How many presidents have preceded him?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[1].answer = "41. (Bush is known as the 43rd president, but Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms, meaning he was both No. 22 and 24. So 41 have preceded Bush.) Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[2][0] = new Array("On Feb. 25, police arrested Dennis Rader, 59-year-old church council president and former Cub Scout leader, for the so-called BTK murders, a series of gruesome killings that terrified the Wichita, Kan., area in the 1970s and ’80s. In June, after having pleaded innocent to the crimes, he pleaded guilty to ten counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Given that Kansas is a death-penalty state, why was he not sentenced to be executed?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[2].answer = "Kansas had no death penalty at the time of the crimes. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[3][0] = new Array("Terri Schiavo, who had lived for 15 years in a vegetative state since suffering brain damage, died March 31 after feeding tubes were removed. The removal of the tubes was the subject of a protracted “right to die” court battle between her husband, Michael, and parents that came to involve President Bush, Congress and the Supreme Court. Schiavo died in Florida; however, she and her husband were originally from another state. Which one?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[3].answer = "Pennsylvania. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[4].answer = "Krakow. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[5].answer = "Bavaria. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[6].answer = "Six-Day War (1967). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[7].answer = "The Netherlands. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[8].answer = "Muzaffarabad. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[9].answer = "Brazil. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[10].answer = "Duchess of Cornwall. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[11][0] = new Array("The long-secret identity of Deep Throat, the mysterious informant used by the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their groundbreaking stories on the Watergate scandal, was revealed to be former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt. In “All the President’s Men,” the 1976 movie based on the case, Woodward and Bernstein were played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffmann, respectively; who played Felt/Deep Throat?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[11].answer = "Hal Holbrook. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[12].answer = "Trent Lott (R-Miss.). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[13][0] = new Array("In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Michael Brown, under fire for the agency’s inadequate reaction to the disaster, was relieved of his operational duties Sept. 12. He later resigned. Part of the criticism of Brown arose because of his résumé, which contained little emergency-management experience and included a stint as commissioner of a horse association. What type of horse was the focus of the group? ");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[13].answer = "Arabian. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[14].answer = "To vote for members of a national assembly. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[15][0] = new Array("Hurricane Katrina struck the southern United States at the end of August, resulting in the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. In which state did Katrina first make landfall?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[15].answer = "Florida. (Katrina, as a Category 1 hurricane, first made landfall on the Atlantic coast before crossing the Sunshine State and then picking up strength as it made a right turn across the Gulf of Mexico. It then made landfall as a Category 4 storm.) Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[16].answer = "Green Bay Packers. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[17].answer = "Ronald Reagan (in 1987). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[18].answer = "Spanish flu. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[19].answer = "New York Yankees (1999). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[20].answer = "“Unforgiven”. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[21][0] = new Array("American cyclist Lance Armstrong announced his retirement after winning an unprecedented seventh straight Tour de France. From which state does Armstrong hail?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[21].answer = "Texas. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[22][0] = new Array("In September, John Roberts, 50, was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the youngest to occupy the post in more than 200 years. Who was the Chief Justice who, in 1801 at the age of 45, holds the record for youngest Chief Justice?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[22].answer = "John Marshall (in 1801 at age 45). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[23][0] = new Array("After evading authorities for more than five years, Eric Rudolph, convicted of several fatal bombings across the South, including at the Atlanta Olympics, was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. How did he escape the death penalty?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[23].answer = "By doing a deal in which he led officials to 250 pounds of dynamite he had buried. Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[24][0] = new Array("Germany found itself with its first woman chancellor when after elections and subsequent horse-trading left Angela Merkel at the top of heap. What is the name of the party of which she is leader?");
YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[24].answer = "The Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Read the full story.";
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YIR2005NEWSQUIZ[25].answer = "New Mexico. Read the full story.";
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