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Newsquiz: Week of August 21
RELATEDCNN STUDENT NEWS(CNN Student News) -- August 25, 2006 Can you "name that noun"? This week's Newsquiz focuses on the people, places and things that were the nouns in the sentences of this week's news. Write the correct proper or common noun in the space provided. For a pdf version of this quiz, click here. 1. At a news conference this week, this leader said it would "send a terrible signal" if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq. * * 2. The second trial of Saddam Hussein centers on the 1988 massacre of this ethnic group. * * 3. This country's leaders gave a long written reply to the threat of U.N. sanctions for its nuclear program. * * 4. This country, which achieved independence from Great Britain in 1947, is seeing American-style shopping malls compete with its marketplaces. * * 5. This person is the Hurricane Katrina survivor from Louisiana who drove to Washington to meet with President Bush. * * 6. One of the nation's fiercest debates may be resolved if these cells can be extracted without destroying human embryos. * * 7. This tropical storm, the fourth of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, could become its first hurricane. * * 8. Two boys who helped save an 18-month old's life in Nebraska are members of this organization. * * 9. Since the world's astronomers decided that Pluto will not be called a planet, this is now the planet farthest from our sun. * * 10. This is Pluto's new category. * * 
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