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1. Violent protests in Muslim countries resulting in numerous deaths were sparked by a news story that U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran. What magazine that now is recanting the story first reported this?
2. Quentin Tarantino directed the season finale of what popular TV show?
3. One of the biggest hits coming out of the Cannes Film Festival this year has been Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers." It centers on a middle-aged Don Juan who tries to find the girlfriend who sent him a letter years earlier telling him he was a father. Who plays the middle-aged Don Juan?
4. The UPN network announced its fall lineup with the most attention going to a new show about a teenager growing up in Brooklyn. The show is loosely based on the life of which former Saturday Night Live star?
5. Who was elected the first Hispanic mayor of Los Angeles in over 100 years?
6. The record for the highest charting song on the American charts with the shortest title has been "If" which hit #4 in 1971 for the group Bread, and in a completely different version in 1993 by Janet Jackson. That record was broken last week when Ciara took her two lettered hit song to #2. What is the name of that song?
7. A testament to Tiger Wood's amazing ability as a player is his record of never having missed a cut in over 7 years on the PGA Tour. That streak came to an end when he failed to make the cut at the Byron Nelson Championship. How many consecutive cuts did he achieve?
8. Widespread disruption of public transportation and other governmental services in France occurred when French workers ignored the government's call to give up a paid holiday to raise money for the elderly. As a response to the 2003 heatwave that killed 15,000 people, France passed a law eliminating the annual Pentecost holiday and proclaiming a new "national day of work". What has this day been called?
9. Tennis star Venus Williams volleyed with Ipek Senoglu in an exhibition match being touted as the first to be played in two continents. In what city did the match take place?
10. More than 77 million children will be immunized this week in a massive campaign to fight polio. This is in response to a reinfection of polio-free areas because certain countries have quit vaccinating children. The World Health Organization reports that one country in particular has been the nidus for the further spread of the disease. Which country is this?
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