Answers to the FP Quiz

1) B, 16 percent. In the 2007–08 basketball season, about 1 in 6 NBA players was born outside the United States, up from 7 percent just 10 years ago. But in a borderless world of sport, that figure is hardly the highest. In Major League Baseball, nearly 30 percent of players were born outside the United States in recent seasons. Meanwhile, in English football’s Premier League, more than 50 percent of players were born outside Britain.

2) A, Canada. Facebook is one of the world’s fastest-growing social networking sites, with more than 100 million members worldwide. It is perhaps most popular in Canada, where 29 percent of the population maintains a member profile, according to a September tally. The United States is No. 13 in the ranking, with 10.5 percent, but more Americans are on the network than any other nationality—32 million, nearly equal to Canada’s entire population.

3) A, China. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, China had more journalists in jail in 2007 than any other country—its ninth consecutive year atop the list, with 29 reporters and editors behind bars. Last year, 18 of those jailed in China were online journalists, with one arrest made possible through information provided by Yahoo!. Of the 23 other countries with jailed journalists, Cuba came in second, with 24 imprisoned reporters, and Eritrea placed third, with 14 jailed...