The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz

What happened in 1998? Test your knowledge of the news as seen in the pages of TIME.

ANSWERS APPEAR ON LAST PAGE OF QUIZ

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Match each numbered description to the photograph of the newsmaker who fits it best.

1. Politician who ranks as his country's most popular leader since World War II.

2. SEAL, wrestler, talk-radio host and Governor.

3. Winner in a Texas "food disparagement" lawsuit but an apparent box-office loser with a long-cherished movie project.

4. Longtime Saturday Night Live cast member who was murdered in his San Fernando Valley home.

5. Experimental subject, hero of the 70+ generation, beneficiary of a political payoff or a bit of each?

6. House kingpin who once said a political leader must "keep his eye always on the ball and his ear very, very tuned to the people." He didn't. He's out.

7. She has a new nose and $850,000, but no apology.

8. Folk-rocker, later Congressman who died in a skiing accident.

9. Prominent Baptist leader who was indicted on charges of racketeering and grand theft.

10. Teacher whose involvement with a student led to a jail term on a charge of child rape.

11. Harvard graduate whose guilty plea enabled him to avoid a possible death penalty for an 18-year terror campaign.

12. She blasted rain-forest sounds through enormous speakers to prevent the media from listening in on her wedding ceremony.

13. U.S. Justice Department attorneys have painted him as a power-hungry demon.

14. Young scientist whose experiment undercut the widely practiced medical treatment known as therapeutic touch.

15. Entertainer who finally gave up a fight to stop people from seeing a personal video.

16. Crusty former Senator, known as "Mr. Conservative," who died in May at age 89.

17. Twenty-one-year-old gay student whose lynching prompted calls for expanded hate-crime legislation.

18. Superstar whose TV show was axed after nine weeks.

19. Icon of the chattering classes whose resignation stopped the media world dead in its tracks.

20. Washingtonian insider who asked, "What's a Muppet?"

21. Wanted for questioning about bombings at the Atlanta Olympics and at a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic.

"HE SAID, SHE SAID" Identify the source of each remark made during the investigation of President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky

1. "I feel like a character in a novel." (a) Lucianne Goldberg (b) Bill Clinton (c) Paula Jones (d) Jack Stanton

2. "I would lie on the stand for my family. That is how I was raised...I have lied my entire life." (a) John Gotti (b) Lucianne Goldberg (c) Monica Lewinsky (d) Linda Tripp

3. "If the dress doesn't fit, we must acquit. If it's on the dress, he must confess." (a) Rep. Barney Frank (b) Rep. James Traficant Jr. (c) Sen. Joe Lieberman (d) Johnnie Cochran

4. "Take your anger and frustration with the President and vent them on me." (a) Vernon Jordan (b) James Carville (c) Al Gore (d) Linda Tripp

5. "What I'm glad about is he's getting caught. At something. If it took this to get him, fine." (a) Lucianne Goldberg (b) Rep. Newt Gingrich (c) Kenneth Starr (d) Paula Jones