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<section><h2>GZERO&#39;s Weekly News Quiz, August 18, 2023</h2><p><p dir="ltr">Think you know what&#39;s going on around the world? Here&#39;s your chance to prove it.<br/></p></p></section><section><h2><p dir="ltr">During a visit to Beijing last month, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen reportedly ate a magic mushroom-based dish known by the hallucinogenic-sounding name Jian shou qing. In English, that translates as …</p></h2></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">What popular band offended audience members in the country of Georgia — which spent 70 years under Soviet occupation — by encouraging them to embrace a Russian audience member as their brother? <br/></p></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">What shocking figure did China publish this month for its youth unemployment rate?  </p></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">Far-right eccentric economist Javier Milei surprised everyone by winning Argentina&#39;s primary last weekend. What is he not known for?</p><strong></strong></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">Recently released numbers show that inflation in the US has …</p><a href="https://www.gzeromedia.com/hard-numbers-grain-deal-extension-italys-apocalyptic-floods-global-warming-threshold-books-bans-in-florida-everest-record"></a><strong></strong></h3></section><section><h2></h2><p>Thanks for playing. Better luck next time.</p></section><section><h3></h3><p>Score! Well done!</p></section>

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<section><h2>GZERO&#39;s Weekly News Quiz, June 2, 2023</h2><p><p dir="ltr">Think you know what&#39;s going on around the world? Here&#39;s your chance to prove it.<br/></p></p></section><section><h2><p></p><p dir="ltr">Who makes three times more money from drugs than all the Mexican cartels combined?<br/></p></h2></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">This week, North Korea launched a spy satellite, causing a short-lived freakout in South Korea, but where did the satellite actually end up?<br/></p></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">Over the past year, many western banks and refiners chose to stop handling Russian gold for obvious reasons. But which Gulf state seized the golden opportunity … to import 75.7 tons of the stuff this past year?</p></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">A government official in drought-prone central India was suspended after ordering that 2 million liters (440,00 gallons) of water be drained from a reservoir. Why did he drain it?</p><a href="https://www.gzeromedia.com/hard-numbers-grain-deal-extension-italys-apocalyptic-floods-global-warming-threshold-books-bans-in-florida-everest-record"></a><strong></strong></h3></section><section><h3><p dir="ltr">Who is the only US president to have achieved a budget surplus over the past 30 years?</p><a href="https://www.gzeromedia.com/the-graphic-truth-who-caused-the-us-national-debt"> </a></h3></section><section><h2></h2><p>Thanks for playing. Better luck next time.</p></section><section><h3></h3><p>Score! Well done!</p></section>

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