In Great Falls, Mont., last week, several downtown buildings were evacuated due to the smell of natural gas. The culprit, however, turned out to be not a gas leak but some discarded boxes of scratch-and-sniff cards designed by the utility company to teach customers what natural gas leaks smelled like. Are your problem-solving skills just as sharp? Time to find out.
Question 1 of 12
A new CDC study has revealed that what behavior now kills more teenagers than drunk driving?
More than 3,000 teens died last year while texting, exceeding for the first time the 2,700 or so killed in alcohol-related crashes.
Question 2 of 12
Last Friday, Guatemala's Efra?n R?os Montt became the first former world leader ever to what?
R?os Montt was sentenced to 80 years in prison for ordering the deaths of more than 1,700 Ixil Mayans when he governed Guatemala in the early 1980s.
Question 3 of 12
An Army sergeant who was a "sexual harassment/assault response and prevention coordinator" at Ford Hood, Texas, is being investigated by the Defense Department this week for what?
It's the second case in two weeks in which a DoD sexual assault prevention officer has been suspended or arrested for sexual assault.
Question 4 of 12
The German government is investigating allegations that a "Kartoffel Kartel" has engaged in a 10-year, billion-dollar conspiracy of price fixing on what?
Question 5 of 12
Republican senators floated a bill this week that would deny the president the $440 million in his budget for what?
The agency is even more unpopular than usual this week, due to charges that it improperly targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Question 6 of 12
A John Currin painting of what unlikely subject sold at Christie's in New York for $1.9 million on Wednesday evening?
The late Golden Girls star never posed for Currin, who said the painting came to him in a vision while he was walking home from the subway in Hoboken, N.J.
Question 7 of 12
What is "The Liberator," plans for which were removed from the Internet by State Department order last week?
The censorship order has only raised awareness of the new plastic guns, and many online DIY-ers have already posted their own updates and improvements.
Question 8 of 12
A furor erupted last week when the Walt Disney Company attempted to trademark the name of what holiday?
Disney subsequently withdrew its trademark application, saying that Pixar's "D??a de los Muertos" project has since been retitled.
Question 9 of 12
On Saturday, what country held its first ever "peaceful" elections to transition between civilian governments, though 29 people died in election-related violence?
"The voting day went fairly smoothly, by Pakistani standards," said Pakistani columnist Cyril Almeida.
Question 10 of 12
On Wednesday, the White House released 100 pages of emails detailing the behind-the-scenes machinations on what controversial issue?
Question 11 of 12
The mission of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which experienced a possibly fatal malfunction this week, was to find what?
Question 12 of 12
Disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner is said to be hiring staff for what?
According to reports, Weiner hired Danny Kedem, an organizer for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential run, as his campaign manager Tuesday.
You got 8 out of 12 answers correct in 20 minutes 30 seconds.
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