Newsquiz: Week of March 24

(CNN Student News) -- March 28, 2008

Fill in the blank - The following sentences relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News. See if you can identify the person, place or thing that is missing from each sentence. Write your answers in the space provided.

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1. Pope ________ spoke out against violence and injustice during his annual Easter message at the Vatican in Rome.

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2. When a business is "in the red," it is ________ money.

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3. The Oakland A's and the Boston Red Sox played the first game of the 2008 MLB season in the city of ________.

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4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is headed by ________.

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5. Monday marked the beginning of the 85,000-mile Olympic torch relay that takes the flame from the country of ________ to Beijing, China.

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6. General ________ is the head of all military operations in Iraq.

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7. ________ is the material that determines the genetic makeup of all living things.

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8. ________ is credited with having created the modern Republican Party, and ________ is credited with having created the modern Democratic Party.

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9. According to a 2007 U.S. Defense Department report, the ________ is the most dangerous perpetrator of sectarian violence in Iraq.

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10. Conflicts have existed between the Chinese government and the country's region of ________ for nearly a century.

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