World News Quiz: What have you missed this week?
Updated 13:28, 21-Sep-2020
Liu Hui

Yoshihide Suga was elected to replace Japan's long-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and a gas found on Earth that signifies life has been detected in the clouds on Venus. Have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past week?

Take our weekly news quiz and see how many questions you can get right. 

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Yoshihide Suga was elected to replace Shinzo Abe, Japan's long-serving prime minister. But for which of the following roles is the new leader also known?
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the history-making jurist and feminist icon, has died, aged 87. She was the second woman ever to serve on the United States Supreme Court. But who appointed her?
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Scientists found an unexplained presence of a gas in the atmosphere of Venus, prompting suggestions living organisms could be floating in the planet's clouds. But what was the gas?
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Which public figure was formally stripped of the honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) award by Britain's Queen Elizabeth?
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The U.S. will bar people in the the country from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting Sunday. The U.S. Commerce Department said the move was for which of the following reasons?
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The first international passenger flight in eight months landed in Wuhan, the worst-hit city in China during the COVID-19 pandemic, on Wednesday, marking the resumption of international flights to and from the city. The flight departed from which city?
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Wildfires in California continue to blaze, with over 8,500 hectares burned since the beginning of the month. But which of the following reasons caused so many wildfires in the state?
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