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    • 1. How many years in prison was disgraced financier Bernard Madoff sentenced on June 29 for his role in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out thousands of investors?
    • 2. Al Franken ultimately won the long-vacant Senate seat of which state on June 30 after Norm Coleman conceded?
    • 3. In what country did a train derail and explode, killing 16 people on June 29?
    • 4. Which is NOT true about Justice David Souter, who retired at the end of the Supreme Court term on June 29?
    • 5. What surprising statement did family patriarch Joe Jackson make during a press conference following Michael Jackson's death on June 29?
    • 6. What ringtone interrupted a speech by President Obama at the White House on June 29?
    • 7. From what did a medical examiner determine TV pitchman Billy Mays likely died?
    • 8. What was historic about the fourth-round Wimbledon match between Dinara Safina and Amelie Mauresmo on June 29?
    • 9. Michael Jackson's will grants custody of his children to whom should his mother be unable?
    • 10. The U.S. jobless rate hit ___ in June, the highest in 26 years.

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