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Quiz of the year's newsQuiz of the year's news
'Tis the season to sit back and cast an eye over 2009. But how much do you remember? Test yourself with the Magazine's four-part compilation of the best of the year's quizzes. Here it's October - December. PLUS a special bonus question each day - see below for details. 'Tis the season to sit back and cast an eye over 2009. But how much do you remember? Test yourself with the Magazine's four-part compilation of the best of the year's quizzes. Here we present April - June. PLUS, there's a special bonus question - see below for details.
1.) Multiple Choice Question1.) Multiple Choice Question
"I hate ______, hate it with a dark and secret passion and always have." What and who? Furniture retailer Habitat came unstuck in June after it used keywords from the news to raise its profile among users of the social networking site Twitter. Which of the following did it NOT use?
  1. Tennis - Andre Agassi
  2. Dancing - Joe Calzaghe
  3. EastEnders - Barbara Windsor
  4. My chin - Gordon Ramsay
  1. Mousavi
  2. Gordonbrown
  3. Iranelection
  4. iPhone
2.) Multiple Choice Question 2.) Missing Word Question
The government's drugs misuse adviser listed 20 "drugs" on a harm index, with heroin, most harmful, at no 1, alcohol at 5 and tobacco at 9. Which class A drug only ranks 18th? * MP 'feels humiliated'
  1. LSD
  2. Cocaine
  3. Ecstasy
  1. Moat
  2. House-flip
  3. Duck island
3.) Multiple Choice Question
The tuneless Irish twins known collectively as Jedward, fresh from their eviction from X Factor in November. Which is which?
  1. Edward on left, John on right
  2. John on left, Edward on right
4.) Missing Word Question
Cottage sale omits * view
  1. sewage
  2. prison
  3. nuclear
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Estate agents Geering & Colyer point out the cottage's proximity to a nature reserve and their photos show it in rural isolation. But turn the camera around, and look what's next door... Click NEXT to continue. Here's the duck house in question. Among others to quit were Lib Dem chief Lord Rennard, reported to have claimed £40,000 for a second home when he owned a flat near Westminster; and Labour's Norwich MP Ian Gibson, censured for selling his second home cheaply to his daughter.Click NEXT to continue.
Info 3.) Multiple Choice Question
The Conservatives unveiled a new weapon in the party conference staging war - the video backdrop. Here's George Osborne taking applause after his speech - but what was his backdrop? Click NEXT for the options. Here's Joanna Lumley celebrating with the Gurkhas. But what does the Gurkha battle-cry "Ayo Gorkhali" actually mean?
  1. Victory for Gurkhas
  2. Gurkhas forever
  3. Gurkhas are coming
  4. Gurkhas here to stay
4.) Multiple Choice Question
To raise money to service the nation's debt, the government hiked taxes on cigarettes, alcohol and petrol. What went up the most?
  1. 20-pack of cigarettes
  2. Pint of beer
  3. Litre of fuel
5.) Multiple Choice Question5.) Multiple Choice Question
Which of the following was the backdrop for Mr Osborne's speech? What was "A loooot of fun"?
  1. Shires town
  2. Piggy bank
  3. Wind turbines
  4. Children playing
  1. Ex-Newcastle manager Alan Shearer on his brief spell at St James's Park
  2. A trip to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, said Miss Universe
  3. Doing a three-point turn in Downing St, said Obama's limousine chauffeur
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It's the Shires town of Abingdon's Lib Dem MP, Dr Evan Harris, said: "The picture was certainly more interesting than Mr Osborne's speech."
6.) Multiple Choice Question6.) Multiple Choice Question
Antony Gormley's One and Other project for 2,400 real people to fill Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth ended in October. Who was the last occupant? For what "extra mile" did some civil servants get a £250 bonus?
  1. Toilet campaigner
  2. Hillsborough memorial
  3. Yoga demo
  4. Death row protester
  1. Turning up for work on the day snow all but paralysed the UK
  2. Taking no sick days for a year
  3. Responding to ministers' e-mails within 30 minutes
7.) Multiple Choice Question7.) Multiple Choice Question
One of these apologies is from Tiger Woods over allegations of infidelity. But which one? Also in April, the All England Tennis Club unveiled its new retractable roof at Wimbledon's Centre Court. So no more drizzle-induced Cliff Richard solos. When was the last one?
  1. "I conducted myself in a way that was disloyal to my family"
  2. "I am far short of perfect"
  3. "She has been horribly hurt by my behaviour"
  4. "I misled people, including even my wife"
  1. 2008
  2. 2004
  3. 1999
  4. 1996
8.) Multiple Choice Question Info
Adult comic Viz marked its 30th this year. The first issue comprised 12 stapled-together pages selling for 20p in Newcastle's bars and pubs. How much were the city's many students charged? Here he is in action in 1996 - among the songs performed were Summer Holiday and The Young Ones.Click NEXT to continue.
  1. 10p
  2. 20p
  3. 30p
 8.) Missing Word Question
* of men 'live with parents'
  1. Tenth
  2. Fifth
  3. Third
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Scottish devolution marked 10 years in May, but the issue of devolution has been troubled by the so-called West Lothian Question: the fact Scottish MPs can vote on English domestic issues, whereas English MPs can't return the compliment. Click NEXT to continue.
9.) Multiple Choice Question9.) Multiple Choice Question
So it's ta-ta to Terry Wogan, who gave up his breakfast slot to be replaced by Chris Evans. Is he older or younger than Tel was when his dulcet tones first graced Radio 2's airwaves? But where is West Lothian?
  1. Evans is older
  2. Evans is younger
  3. Same age
  1. A
  2. B
  3. C
  4. D
10.) Multiple Choice Question10.) Multiple Choice Question
"I don't know how I got it," said which personality on their controversial award? "We want to rejuvenate our political class with cultivated, educated people who don't smell bad." Said who?
  1. Barack Obama on his Nobel Peace Prize... less than a year into his presidency
  2. David Beckham on being man of the match... despite being a second-half sub
  3. Speech Debelle, playing half-full gigs after her Mercury Prize win
  1. Boris Johnson, on the Tory MP gender imbalance during a Q&A to mark his first year as London mayor
  2. Silvio Berlusconi, after his wife objected to his roster of prospective MEPs - all beautiful women
  3. Nicolas Sarkozy, who populated his own cabinet with a few glamorous female ministers
11.) Multiple Choice Question11.) Multiple Choice Question
Under-15s should not be given even a sip of alcohol, said the chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson. At what age can parents legally offer a child alcohol at home? To mark the release of the film Synecdoche, New York, in May, we did a tricky words quiz. Which of these words refers to boiling, or agitated?
  1. Five
  2. 12
  3. 14
  1. Exfoliant
  2. Ebullient
  3. Emollient
  4. Effluent
12.) Multiple Choice Question12.) Multiple Choice Question
This year the fight for the Christmas number one was between X Factor's Joe and Rage Against the Machine. Last year it was X Factor's Alexandra Burke with Hallelujah. Who was number two with the same song? And finally, Farrah Fawcett died five hours before Michael Jackson on 25 June. But how far away?
  1. Leonard Cohen
  2. Jeff Buckley
  3. John Cale
  1. About 6km
  2. About 60km
  3. About 600km
AnswersAnswers
  1. It was Andre Agassi in his autobiography, Open. Boxer Joe Calzaghe danced like a plank of wood before exiting Strictly Come Dancing; Barbara Windsor announced she is to leave the BBC soap after 15 years; and TV chef Gordon Ramsay admitted having cosmetic surgery on his chin furrows.
  2. It's ecstasy, said Professor David Nutt, who headed the government's Advisory Committee on the Misuse of Drugs before he was sacked in October. He listed cannabis in 10th position.
  3. It's John on the left, Edward on the right. Like Ant and Dec, they try to always stand on the same side to help people differentiate. Their differences are subtle - John is an inch taller, has pierced ears (but no earrings) and his right ear is slightly pointy.
  4. It's "nuclear". An estate agent advertised "an exceptional fisherman's cottage" in Kent for £247,000, but didn't mention the neighbours were Dungeness A and B.
  5. It was the Shires town - Abingdon in Oxfordshire to be precise. Click NEXT to complete the picture.
  6. Last plinther Emma Burns - picture 2 - released balloons in memory of the victims of 1989's Hillsborough disaster.
  7. It's "I am far short of perfect" and the golfer also apologised to his family for his "transgressions". Of the others, apology 1 is from US presidential hopeful John Edwards; apology 3 is David Letterman; and apology 4 is Bill Clinton.
  8. Students had to pay 30p. This teasing relationship with a key readership continued with the strip Student Grant, about a student with a rather rude name who read Peace Studies.
  9. Chris Evans is 43, nine years older than Sir Terry Wogan was when he first broadcast for Radio 2 in 1972.
  10. It's David Beckham, for England against Belarus in October. Even his coach expressed surprise. "After eight months as president he [Obama] won the Nobel Prize and after 30 minutes David won the man of the match," said Fabio Capello.
  11. It's five years old.
  12. It was Jeff Buckley, who recorded his version in 1994. Leonard Cohen's orginal track, first released in 1984, reached number 36.
  1. It's Gordonbrown. The firm apologised for the use of the "hashtags" and said it had been the work of an "over-enthusiastic intern" trying to piggyback on interest in Iran's controversial election.
  2. The full headline is "Duck island MP 'feels humiliated'". When leaked details of MPs' expenses were published in May, Tory MP Peter Viggers stepped down after anger at his claim for £30,000 in garden costs, including £1,645 for a floating duck house.
  3. It's "Gurkhas are coming". In the spring, Lumley helped the Nepalese soldiers win a long battle for the right to settle in the UK. A Gurkha once saved her father's life.
  4. It's the cigs. The price went up hours after the Budget speech in March, by an average of 7p. Hours later a pint increased by 1p. In September a litre of fuel was due to rise by 2p, but this was later postponed to March 2010.
  5. It's the prison camp. Venezuelan beauty queen Dayana Mendoza's blog post on the Miss Universe site also said it was a "relaxing, calm, beautiful place". It was soon replaced with a statement saying she meant the hospitality she received there.
  6. It was for snow, given to the 224 - out of 1,400 - Crown Prosecution Service employees in London who made it to work on Monday 2 February. The payment was revealed in April.
  7. It was - amazingly, given how much people go on about it - in 1996, when he orchestrated a singalong to pass the time.
  8. It's "third" - 29% (just under a third) of men aged 20 to 34 live with their parents, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics.
  9. It's D. A is Argyll and Bute, B is Perth and Kinross and C is South Ayrshire.
  10. It was, not surprisingly, Mr Berlusconi, who added that the "poorly dressed" were also not welcome - "unlike certain people from other parties".
  11. It is ebullient. Emollient refers to things that soften, effluent means flowing and hence waste. And an exfoliant is something that removes dead cells from the skin's surface.
  12. The pair died about 6km - 3.7 miles - apart. Fawcett, who had been diagnosed with cancer in 2006, died at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Jackson at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Your ScoreYour Score
0 - 4 : Jedward 0 - 3 : In the duck house
5 - 10 : Olly Murs 4 - 10 : Water off a duck's back
11 - 12 : Leona Lewis 11 - 12 : All going swimmingly
We can now reveal the answer to our bonus question.We can now reveal the answer to our bonus question.
In addition to the 12 questions above, we also posed a bonus question for each of the four parts of this quiz. That's how we reached the magic total of 52 questions.In addition to the 12 questions above, we also posed a bonus question for each of the four parts of this quiz. That's how we reached the magic total of 52 questions.
52 weeks, part one 52 weeks, part two 52 weeks, part three52 weeks, part one 52 weeks, part two 52 weeks, part three
With each part of the quiz we published a photograph - all four are on the right. We asked you what the link was between the four pictures.With each part of the quiz we published a photograph - all four are on the right. We asked you what the link was between the four pictures.
Only a few of you got it right, including Phil in Guisborough, Ben Taylorson in Durham, Simon Rooke in Nottingham and Stig in London. Christmas kudos to one and all.Only a few of you got it right, including Phil in Guisborough, Ben Taylorson in Durham, Simon Rooke in Nottingham and Stig in London. Christmas kudos to one and all.
The answer is The Wire. The four photographs represent four characters from the US crime drama.The answer is The Wire. The four photographs represent four characters from the US crime drama.
1. Leicester city centre (Lester Freamon)1. Leicester city centre (Lester Freamon)
2. Tony McNulty, former employment minister (Jimmy McNulty)2. Tony McNulty, former employment minister (Jimmy McNulty)
3. Michael Jackson with chimp Bubbles (Reginald "Bubbles" Cousin)3. Michael Jackson with chimp Bubbles (Reginald "Bubbles" Cousin)
4. Greggs bakery (Kima Greggs)4. Greggs bakery (Kima Greggs)
For a complete archive of past quizzes and our weekly news quiz, 7 days 7 questions, visit the Magazine page and scroll down.For a complete archive of past quizzes and our weekly news quiz, 7 days 7 questions, visit the Magazine page and scroll down.