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This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:

1. What Asian country was recently struck by Typhoon Shanshan, which made landfall as the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and dumped record amounts of rain on some areas?

2. What conflict formally ended on September 3rd, 1783, when the Treaty of Paris was signed by representatives from the two countries involved?

3. What kind of bacteria, which originated at a Boar’s Head plant in Virginia, has sickened dozens of Americans and led to the recall of more than 7 million pounds of deli meats?

4. According to a report by social analysis company Graphika, what nation tried to influence the upcoming U.S. election by using fake social media accounts, though the country denies this?

5. According to the U.S. government, what nation has been trying to influence the upcoming U.S. election through its RT news network, though the country denies this?

6. What three-word nickname was given to the group of African-American students who attempted to integrate a high school in Arkansas on September 4, 1957?

7. What U.S. state is nicknamed the “First State” because it was the first to ratify the Constitution in 1787?

8. In Serbia, a summer of unusual heat, a lack of rainfall, and sewage water pollution has turned the Sava River into a bright shade of what color?

9. As featured on Thursday’s show: What is the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive drug, which can be part of a healthy diet for adults but also can be harmful to children?

10. September 6th marked the anniversary of when the ship Victoria completed a circumnavigation of the globe in 1522. It had been part of a fleet under the command of what Portuguese explorer?