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World Editor's Picks newsletter: Weekly Quiz May 14-15

Here's a fun way to test yourself on what you've learned from the Monitor this week. If you want to understand more, every answer page has a related article that gives the full story.

2. Skype, the online communications software that Microsoft is set to buy for $8.5 billion, began in post-Soviet Estonia. Which of these technological tools was also started by Estonians?

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A man operates on a skype booth at the international airport in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 22.

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World Editor's Picks newsletter: Weekly Quiz May 14-15

Here's a fun way to test yourself on what you've learned from the Monitor this week. If you want to understand more, every answer page has a related article that gives the full story.

2. Skype, the online communications software that Microsoft is set to buy for $8.5 billion, began in post-Soviet Estonia. Which of these technological tools was also started by Estonians?

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