Brain Game Headliners Contest

Learn, Play & Win

Think you’re up on the latest with current events? Correctly answer 10 multiple-choice questions and your name will be entered into a weekly drawing for a cool sling backpack! (Shhh. Here’s a tip: All the answers come from news content on WRAL.com.)

How to Play & Win

Submit your answers to the 10 questions online each Wednesday beginning at 9 a.m. through the following Wednesday at 9 a.m. Every Wednesday, one randomly selected winner’s name will appear on WRAL.com’s Brain Game page. The weekly winner receives a Brain Game Headliners sling backpack and will have their name announced on WRAL’s weekly "Brain Game" show, which airs at 11: 30 a.m. Saturdays. (Read complete contest rules.)

Your School Can Win, Too

During the contest period, two lucky high schools will be randomly selected from the pool of weekly winners to receive an IBM T-Series laptop valued at $1,500 for their respective schools.

What are you waiting for? Learn, play and win!

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Question 1
What terrorist group took over parts of Beirut, Lebanon, after running gun battles in the streets between rival Shiite and Sunni factions.
Question 2
What blood thinning medicine imported from China is now considered safe after implementation of tighter testing and controls to prevent contamination?
Question 3
What country killed all of the poultry in its capital city after an outbreak of bird flu?
Question 4
What company is introducing its new Blackberry "Bold", the latest "smartphone" to compete with the Apple iPhone?
Question 5
In what part of Baghdad, Iraq have militants and coalition forces agreed to a four day ceasefire that will hopefully end 7 weeks of street fighting believed to have killed hundreds of civilians?
Question 6
What former Congressman gas launched a Presidential bid, running as a Libertarian?
Question 7
Early polls show Republican Pat McCrory leading Democrat Beverly Perdue in North Carolina's Gubernatorial race. In what City does McCrory serve as Mayor?
Question 8
Recent tornadoes in the southeast prove the least safe place to be in during a tornado is where?
Question 9
What Triangle city did "Fortune Small Business" rank as best in the area to live and launch a new business?
Question 10
What software company launched its "WorldWide Telescope" bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience?
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