BOSTON — It’s been quite a year — from the worst global economic crisis in generations, to piracy on the high seas, to the worsening war in Afghanistan — to say nothing of lighter matters like the emergence of India’s first porn star and what explorer Ernest Shackleton left buried in Antarctica a century ago.

How closely were you paying attention? Here’s our first annual GlobalPost News Quiz: 20 questions that mix the serious with the silly.

Good luck, and see you in 2010.