World News Quiz: What have you missed this week?
By Liu Hui

The world welcomed a new decade this week with some big news headlines including a U.S. airstrike killing top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan and the ongoing Australian bushfire crisis.  

Take the first weekly quiz of 2020 to test how much you know about the events that transpired in the first week of the new decade.  

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Which country/countries rang in the year 2020 first?
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Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors who was facing a trail later in 2020, fled from Japan and delivered a shocking plot twist this week. It is unclear how he managed to slip out from the country but many theories of the dramatic escape have been reported. Which one of the below-mentioned theories has been confirmed so far?
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A U.S. airstrike on Friday killed Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis among others. Where did the airstrike take place?
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The first major meteor shower of 2020 lit up the night skies this week. Do you know its name?
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Australia experienced its most destructive bushfire this week, which is still ongoing. Over six million hectares (60,000 square kilometers) of its land has been burned since September. The burned area equals to how many times of the land destroyed in the 2019 Amazon rainforest fires?
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced the nominees for the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Which of the following movie is excluded from this year's Best Motion Picture – Drama nominees?
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Can artificial intelligence (AI) save lives? The answer seems to be "yes," as Google on Wednesday said it has developed an AI system that can detect the presence of a certain kind of cancer more accurately than doctors. Do you know what cancer it can detect?
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