WORLD NEWS QUIZ 2025 🌍 with Stephen from SEND7 Podcast [969]

[969] It's time for the annual World News Quiz with 20 questions about some of the curious news stories of 2025. Stephen Devincenzi from the SEND7 podcast is the quizmaster. Can you I improve on my poor performance from last year? Can you beat me? Take a trip through some news highlights from this year. Full transcript available as usual.
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0:00:00 Introduction
0:18:57 Question 1 - Elon Musk's government agency
0:21:49 Question 2 - China's AI chatbot
0:23:42 Question 3 - California wildfires
0:27:55 Question 4 - Spanish/Portuguese train evacuations
0:32:45 Question 5 - All-female space flight on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
0:35:30 Question 6 - New Canadian Prime Minister
0:42:52 Question 7 - Most populous city in the world
0:45:32 Question 8 - Pope Leo
0:52:00 Question 9 - Women's Euro football championship final in Switzerland
0:55:29 Question 10 - Australian murder case
1:01:56 Half way through the quiz
1:05:30 Question 11 - Surprising Swedish church
1:09:02 Question 12 - Painting stolen by Nazis discovered in Argentina
1:14:45 Question 13 - Tallest church in the world
1:17:52 Question 14 - Global anti-government protests
1:22:21 Question 15 - Louvre robbery in Paris
1:28:00 Question 16 - Nobel Peace Prize given to María Corina Machado
1:31:02 Question 17 - First ever female leader in which country?
1:34:52 Question 18 - Brand of dolls from Hong Kong, popular all over the world
1:39:15 Question 19 - Australian social media rule
1:45:17 Question 20 - 21st member of the Eurozone
1:52:21 Ending


















1:05:26 Quiz part 2 (Questions 11-20)