Newsquiz: Week of August 18

(CNN Student News) -- August 22, 2008

Fill in the blank - The following sentences relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News. See if you can identify the person, place or thing that is missing from each sentence. Write your answers in the space provided.

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1. Tropical Storm ________ battered parts of Florida with high winds and heavy rain.

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2. On Monday, Pervez Musharraf resigned from his post as the president of ________.

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3. The two nations of ________ and ________ recently signed a cease-fire agreement after clashes involving two breakaway provinces.

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4. Parts of the ________ suffered major flooding following heavy rains and the Redland Dam bursting.

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5. During the 1980s, Sen. Barack Obama worked as a community activist in the U.S. city of ________.

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6. Sen. John McCain spent five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war in the country of ________.

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7. When Jamaican runner __________ won the gold medal for the 200-meter race on Wednesday, he became the first man to ever break the 100-meter and 200-meter world records in the same Olympics.

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8. The U.S. city of ________ hosted the first national presidential convention.

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9. The country of ________ signed a missile defense deal with the U.S. on Wednesday.

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10. The acronym NATO stands for ________.

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