Newsquiz: Week of October 20

(CNN Student News) -- October 24, 2008

Get a clue -- Use each of the following clues to figure out the person, place or thing that is being described from stories you saw on CNN Student News this week. Write your answers in the space provided.

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1. Faced with threats and violence, many Christians have fled this Iraqi city.

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2. For the first time in 61 years, India and Pakistan conducted trade across the line of control in this region.

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3. This world leader announced plans to host an international summit on November 15 to try to solve the global financial crisis.

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4. U.S. agents are using this new technology to stop illegal trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border.

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5. This chamber of the U.S. Congress has 435 voting members.

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6. On Wednesday, this nation launched its first lunar mission.

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7. This word means the act of being absent without permission, especially from school.

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8. Shigeru Miyamoto is known as the grandfather of this industry.

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9. This geometrical shape consists of a single bend and two lines going off in the distance.

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10. This international organization's charter was ratified on October 24, 1945.

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