2008 Quiz - Test Your Knowledge | Community Voice

the 10th Festival of Pacific Arts, concluded 2 August 2008 in American Samoa, brought together about 2,000 artists from 27 countries across Oceania?

the Piliyandala bombing of April 25, 2008 was the deadliest attack on a commuter bus in Sri Lanka since the January 16 Buttala attack?

the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008?

the two dams and reservoir that form the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project will be decommissioned in 2008 due to the rising costs of meeting environmental laws?

on July 11, 2008, the Kayelekera mine in Karonga, Malawi celebrated 1.5 million hours of accident-free uranium mining?

before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?

Halemaʻumaʻu crater (pictured) in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park erupted explosively on March 19, 2008 for the first time since 1924?

James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction?

Muhtar Kent, named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1, 2008, is the son of a Turkish diplomat, who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust?

at the 2008 centennial of the Empresa de Ferrocarriles Ecuatorianos, only 10% of the original railway system was open?

Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008?

2008

1 ________ – Yegor Letov, Russian singer (b.

2 June 2 – A car bomb explodes outside the Danish embassy in ________, Pakistan, killing at least five.

3 ________ – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b.

4 ________ – Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b.

5 ________ – Paul Frère, Belgian racing driver (b.

6 ________ – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b.

7 However, the US government is unsure how to execute him; an ________, a gas chamber, a firing squad, and hanging are all tried – none of which work.

8 ________ – John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist (b.

9 June 29 – ________, American actor (b.

10 ________ – Jörg Haider, Austrian politician (b.

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