This week's quiz question:

The volume of global trade decreased how much in 2009?

a) 3 percent    b) 12 percent    c) 23 percent

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This week's quiz question:

Which country produces the most hashish?

a) Afghanistan    b) Morocco    c) Russia

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This week's quiz question:

The world's deepest offshore oil-drilling platform sits in how many feet of water?

a) 5,280 feet (1mile)    b) 6,600 feet (1.25 miles)    c) 8,000 feet (1.5 miles)

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People may be fixated on the World Cup right now, but there's also another big tournament going on -- Wimbledon! And all the racket swinging has inspired this week's quiz question:

Which country has the most women tennis players among the world's top 200?

a) Australia    b) Czech Republic    c) Russia

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Quiz question for the week:

Which country had the lowest rate of economic growth in 2009?

a) Latvia    b) Lithuania    c) Iceland

(For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy, you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works.)

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Quiz question for the week:

Quiz: How much did new-car registrations change last year globally? 

a) 14 percent decrease    b) no change    c) 7 percent increase

(For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy, you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works.)

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Quiz question for the week:

Which country spends the most time on social-networking websites?

a) Italy    b) Japan    c) United States 

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For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy, you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works. The quiz question I'd like to highlight this week is:

The world's wind-power generation capacity increased how much in 2009?

a) 11 percent    b) 21 percent    c) 31 percent

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