The October News Quiz: Six Headlines From Friday, October 9

A Nobel Peace Prize shocker, a Bollywood farewell, a farewell of a different kind at the Monumental, and a tablet lineup from Amazon: this October news quiz turns six of the week's biggest headlines into six quick questions. The format follows the earlier October 6 headline check quiz. Read the question, commit to an answer, then check the bolded line, where the answer waits with the reporting behind it.

This October news quiz also plays catch-up on the prize everyone was guessing about. Days ago, the Nobel Peace Prize quiz before the reveal laid out the contenders; this morning the committee gave its answer. The announcement landed just days after Donald Trump publicly pitched himself for the prize, a campaign covered in Trump's Nobel Peace Prize pitch. A scoring guide waits at the bottom so you can grade yourself honestly.

The six questions

1. Who won the twenty twenty-six Nobel Peace Prize this morning?

Answer: Navanethem "Navi" Pillay, the South African human rights lawyer. The Norwegian Nobel Committee named the eighty-five-year-old former UN human rights chief as this year's laureate for her efforts to promote peace and international law, NPR reported. Pillay previously served as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where she took part in a landmark ruling recognizing rape as an act of genocide, and later as a judge on the International Criminal Court. The committee chose her from two hundred eighty-seven nominees, and the prize carries twelve million Swedish kronor.

2. Which veteran Indian actor died this week at seventy-five?

From Oslo to Bollywood, the second question of this October news quiz moves to cinema.

Answer: Nana Patekar. The veteran of Hindi and Marathi cinema suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Dona Paula, Goa, on October 8 and was declared dead around twenty minutes past five that morning, the Indian EYE reported. Doctors tried to revive him for roughly forty-five minutes. His son, Malhar Patekar, confirmed the death, and Maharashtra announced a state funeral honoring his contribution to cinema. Patekar debuted with Gaman in nineteen seventy-eight and became known for intense turns in Parinda, Krantiveer, Ab Tak Chhappan, and Welcome; his career brought three National Film Awards and the Padma Shri in twenty thirteen.

3. Which country confirmed its first-ever Ebola death this week?

Question three of this October news quiz heads to East Africa.

Answer: Kenya. A Kenyan man who had been living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo fell ill there about a month earlier, traveled overland through Uganda, and flew to Nairobi on October 3, where he died in an isolation unit the following night, Contagion Live reported. The case was confirmed as the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, and authorities traced twenty-eight contacts along with two dozen fellow travelers. Kenya had never previously recorded an Ebola case. The DRC outbreak behind it has grown to more than eight thousand confirmed cases and more than four thousand deaths.

4. Which country flight-tested its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon on October 8?

The fourth question of this October news quiz turns to the Korean Peninsula.

Answer: South Korea. The weapon separated from its booster rocket at the planned altitude, maneuvered vertically and horizontally, and struck a test target, the Associated Press reported. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung attended the test and called it a major step in strengthening the country's conventional defenses. The weapon is designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems. The test came a week after North Korea tested its own hypersonic missile, and weeks after three South Korean soldiers were hurt in land mine explosions near the inter-Korean border.

5. What new device line did Amazon unveil this week, with prices starting at two hundred twenty-nine dollars?

Question five of this October news quiz is the tech one.

Answer: The all-new Alexa Tablets. Amazon launched the line in three sizes, the twelve Pro, eleven, and eight, all running Android with full Google Play access and Alexa+ built in, according to the company's announcement. A standout feature is Kindle Sanctuary mode, which turns the tablet into a distraction-free reader with up to twenty hours of battery life. Amazon also introduced new Kids Tablets with kid-proof cases and a year of Kids+ content from Disney, Nickelodeon, and LEGO.

6. How did Lionel Messi close out his Argentina career on October 6?

The final question of this October news quiz ends with football.

Answer: With a goal and two assists in a three-nil friendly win over Benin. Messi set up Nicolas Otamendi and Nico Paz, then converted a penalty in the seventy-first minute, Sky Sports reported. More than eighty-five thousand spectators packed the Monumental in Buenos Aires for the farewell. The thirty-nine-year-old retires as Argentina's most-capped player, with two hundred eight appearances, and its all-time top scorer, with one hundred twenty-six goals. Speaking afterward, Messi said playing for Argentina was the most beautiful thing that could happen to a person.

Score yourself

Give yourself one point for each right answer. Six out of six puts you in rare company. Four or five means you follow the news more closely than you admit. Two or three means the headlines mostly washed over you. Zero or one means this October news quiz did its job by catching you up on a very busy week.