Each week, the world offers a strange and uneven curriculum: a young prince crosses a threshold into one of England's oldest schools, a volcano reminds travelers that the earth operates on its own schedule, and a politician places a wager on the future with a promise of five thousand dollars per adult. BBC News gathers these fragments into a weekly quiz — not merely as a test of memory, but as an invitation to ask whether we were truly present for the week that just passed. In an age of relentless information, attention itself has become the rarest resource.
Weekly news quiz: Test your knowledge of the past seven days
A volcanic eruption in Indonesia left passengers stranded.