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Monday, 16 December, 2002, 18:18 GMT

Test your world news knowledge

At the end of the year, test your powers of recollection with our world news quiz

What became legal in 12 countries on 1 January 2002 and has had its highs and lows since then?


	A: Private consumption of cannabis


	B: Sale of condoms to under 16s


	C: The euro

Which world leader said to another: "You are very rude and I have never been spoken to like this before"?


	A: Gerhard Schroeder to George W Bush


	B: Jacques Chirac to Tony Blair


	C: Yasser Arafat to Ariel Sharon

Which actor who played Napoleon, Mussolini and Al Capone in films and won an Oscar for his portrayal of a bigoted town sheriff died in July 2002?


	A: James Coburn


	B: Leo McKern


	C: Rod Steiger

There was little common ground between Israel and its Arab neighbours this year, but Israel and Jordan agreed on a joint project to save something this year - what was it?


	A: The desert leopard of Negev


	B: The Dead Sea


	C: Biblical sites in the Jordan valley

Who is Lula, and why was he or she in the headlines in 2002?


	A: A 1960s Scottish singing star who revived her career with a global hit


	B: A cloned calf which offered new ways of breeding dairy cattle


	C: A trades union leader who became president of Brazil

What is the Malaysian island of Penang doing to attract more tourists?


	A: Offering cosmetic surgery


	B: Offering free flights to and from the mainland


	C: Allowing tourists to shoot wild elephants

Which unfortunate animal was involved in a murder mystery in a Kenyan game reserve, and ended up dying after being drugged?


	A: A lion


	B: A giraffe


	C: An elephant

The US likes to have the biggest and best of everything, but a tiny organism is threatening the future of which of these national icons?


	A: The Grand Canyon


	B: The Everglades alligator


	C: California's Giant Redwood trees

Which high profile American said in a speech: "The glass ceiling was broken and I hope that this ceiling is shattered forever."


	A: Colin Powell, recalling his feelings on becoming the first black secretary of state


	B: Halle Berry, on becoming the first black woman to win a best actress Oscar


	C: Hillary Clinton, looking back on her first year as a senator

South African Mark Shuttleworth became the first of his countrymen to do what?


	A: Walk from Cape Town to Cairo


	B: Reach the South Pole


	C: Travel into space

Who did Indian authorities call to account for breaking strict conservation laws in the Himalayas this year?


	A: More than 1,000 Western mountaineers, whose rubbish litters large areas of protected land


	B: The Indian air force, after reports that it had used remote areas to test missiles


	C: Soft drinks companies Coca Cola and Pepsi, after unauthorised adverts appeared painted onto rock faces

Which sports team known as the Lions beat their old colonial rulers, whose symbol is a cockerel, only to lose to Turkey?


	A: Senegal


	B: British Lions


	C: Brazil

The year's big stories

Around the world

Middle East's anguish

Al-Qaeda regroups

Iraq: A prelude to war?

Africa's famine threat

Catholic Church in crisis

In the UK

The Royal butler's tale

Climbie inquiry legacy

Education crises

Soham's tragic summer

Embers of fire strike

IN PICTURES

The world in 2002

The year in the UK

QUIZ

Test your recollection of 2002

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Top World stories now:

US draws up second Iraq resolution

S Korea subway inferno toll rises

Peru's ex-spy chief on public trial

Prominent Kosovo suspect held

US plays down N Korean threat

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