You need to think of models as more of a pop quiz at the end of the week, to test what we know.

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But I thought I would come along today and just talk to you about Australia and actually start by asking you a few questions, a bit of a pop quiz about Australia.

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Bush also can be both playful and firm with reporters, as he showed with WHDH-TV's Andy Hiller, the Boston reporter who stumped him with a pop quiz on foreign leaders two months ago.

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The recent rash of questions surrounding Bush's intelligence erupted in the wake of a foreign policy pop quiz -- sprung on Bush by a Boston Globe reporter -- in which Bush confused the names of foreign leaders and countries.

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Pop quiz, from a test administered by the Hearst Corporation in 1987.

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Pop quiz: when a drug company finally gets a product approved after spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars on research, what does its stock do?

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Now, with a diet of soaps, pop music and quiz shows pouring out on Mr Berlusconi's TV channels, Italy's great opera composers of the 19th and 20th centuries Verdi and Puccini are no longer flavour of the month.

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Pop quiz: How much is a gallon of unpumped crude oil worth?

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