Newsquiz: Week of April 14

(CNN Student News) -- April 18, 2008

Fill in the blank - The following sentences relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News. See if you can identify the person, place or thing that is missing from each sentence. Write your answers in the space provided.

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1. The "Global Day for ________" is designed to raise awareness about the humanitarian crisis taking place in the western Sudanese region.

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2. A recent "swarm" of earthquake activity has been taking place off the ________ coast of the United States.

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3. The 100-page ________ states that, "No kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas."

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4. The two U.S. airlines ________ and ________ announced that they plan to merge.

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5. The word ________ means the act of claiming someone else's words or ideas as your own.

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6. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization declared 2008 the International Year of the ________.

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7. Pope Benedict XVI serves as the chief of state of ________, the world's smallest independent country.

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8. On Thursday, the pope led a Mass for tens of thousands of people at ________ stadium in Washington, D.C.

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9. Friday marked the anniversary of the 1906 earthquake which destroyed much of the U.S. city of ________.

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10. Professor ________ invented his famous cube in 1974 to help teach his students about geometry.

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