As you know if you've been watching the news, it's become abundantly clear that basketball player Ron Artest's 2011 name change to Metta World Peace has not, in fact, brought about world peace. World Peace appears to know that better than anyone, and he announced on Twitter this week that when he moves to the Sichuan Blue Whales of the Chinese Basketball Association next season, he will change his name again, to "The Pandas Friend." Maybe this one will work out better.

Question 1 of 12

A Category 2 storm named Iselle was predicted to become the first hurricane in 22 years to make landfall where?

Another hurricane, Julio, is following close behind.

Question 2 of 12

A three-day truce in what war appeared to be holding this week, after the last attempt collapsed in only 90 minutes?

Question 3 of 12

On Thursday, a U.N.-backed tribunal handed down the first judgments of "murder" and "extermination" against the leaders of what regime?

Life sentences were imposed on Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, ending a trial that began in 2011.

Question 4 of 12

MIT researchers have discovered a way to eavesdrop on people by doing what?

By watching the vibrations in ordinary items like house-plant leaves or foil bags, the scientists were able to reconstruct the sounds that created them.

Question 5 of 12

On Tuesday, Becky Hammon became the first woman ever hired full-time to work where?

The retiring WNBA star will join Gregg Popovich's San Antonio Spurs coaching staff next season.

Question 6 of 12

Medical teams battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are finding it difficult to prevent what local practice, a likely vector for the disease?

"Bush meat"—a jerky-like food made from bats, monkeys, or other jungle animals, is a traditional source of protein in the region.

Question 7 of 12

What country's new House of Representatives called for a U.N.-supervised cease-fire this week, with the country's two largest cities still controlled by warring militias?

The new parliament is meeting in Tobruk, as Tripoli and Benghazi are still claimed by Islamic hard-liners.

Question 8 of 12

Last week in Nature, a team of planetary scientists announced a solution to the 4-billion-year-old mystery of why the Moon is shaped like what?

The moon is, it turns out, not a perfect sphere. Gravity has given it two rounded tips, on an axis aligned with Earth.

Question 9 of 12

At a news conference last Friday, who made the blunt admission, "We tortured some folks"?

Question 10 of 12

A new investigation has revealed that a Russian crime ring has stolen an astounding 1.2 billion of what?

A Milwaukee security firm says the hackers targeted 420,000 different websites, many of which are still vulnerable.

Question 11 of 12

What was unusually notable about the death of the U.S. Army's Harold J. Greene, who died Tuesday in Afghanistan?

Greene is the first American general to lose his life in an overseas conflict since the Vietnam War.

Question 12 of 12

In a church basement in Sweden, erotic novelist Kicki Karlen was shocked to find 80 skeletons stuffed into what containers?

The remains had apparently been dug up, but never reinterred, when wheelchair ramps were added to the churchyard in 2009.