It's the Magazine's 7 days, 7 questions quiz - an opportunity to prove to yourself and others that you are a news oracle. Failing that, you can always claim to have had better things to do during the past week than swot up on current affairs.
It's the Magazine's 7 days, 7 questions quiz - an opportunity to prove to yourself and others that you are a news oracle. Failing that, you can always claim to have had better things to do during the past week than swot up on current affairs.
1.) Multiple Choice Question
1.) Multiple Choice Question
The Queen viewed an aboriginal sculpture at the National Gallery of Victoria, during a 10-day visit to Australia. What unusual gift caused confusion for Prince Philip, who was accompanying her?
Britain was ranked the 28th best country in the world to live in by the UN this week, slipping two places on last year. Which of these countries is ranked higher?
A
stick
A
bird's egg
A
feather
Israel
Greece
Barbados
They
all are
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Norway topped the list for the second year running, while the Democratic Republic of Congo was bottom. The 2011 Human Development Report, commissioned by the UN, assesses 187 countries on three areas of human development - life expectancy, education and the standard of living based on average income.
2.) Multiple Choice Question
2.) Multiple Choice Question
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi discussed this week what happens during a "bunga bunga" party. What did he claim was the principal activity at such an event?
Popular children's show Sesame Street is being remade for Pakistan TV. Only one of the original characters is being kept in the show - which one?
Eating
Dancing
Networking
Big
Bird
Elmo
Oscar
the Grouch
3.) Multiple Choice Question
3.) Multiple Choice Question
A court in the US has been asked to grant constitutional rights to which of the following, after a campaigning group argued they were being kept in conditions that violated the ban on slavery?
Nargis Kumar, born on Monday in India, is one of the babies chosen as the symbolic seven billionth person on earth. In 1999, where was the symbolic six billionth baby born?
Whales
Horses
Mice
Bangladesh
Bosnia
Botswana
Brazil
4.) Multiple Choice Question
4.) Multiple Choice Question
George Clooney's new political thriller The Ides of March is based on a play called Farragut North. What - or who - is Farragut North?
It was a week for resignations. Who said, as they stood down: "We have all been put under a great deal of strain."
The
name of the main character
A
Washington DC metro station
A
gentleman's club
Lloyds
boss Antonio Horta-Osorio
Graeme
Knowles, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
Greek
Prime Minister George Papandreou
5.) Multiple Choice Question
5.) Multiple Choice Question
The French rugby team have been fined £2,500 for doing what while New Zealand's All Blacks team performed the haka during Sunday's World Cup final?
Risico. The Hildebrand Rarity. The Property of a Lady. What are these?
Advancing
towards the New Zealand team
Turning
their backs on the All Blacks
Joining
in with one part of the haka
Previously
unheard Amy Winehouse songs
Paintings
looted by Nazis and sold this week at auction
007
stories
Info
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"As with other in-tournament breaches of the tournament cultural ritual protocol and as per pre-tournament communication with teams, RWCL will impose the standard sanction of £2,500," the IRB stated on Thursday.
A looted Klimt painting, called Litzlberg on the Attersee, was only recently returned to its owner. It sold at auction for $40m (£25m) this week. It was also announced that a new album of unheard Amy Winehouse material will be released in December.
6.) Multiple Choice Question
6.) Missing Word Question
The world population is about to pass seven billion. When did it get its first billion people?
Clever birds plan for *
1804
1854
1904
the
future
offspring
migration
7.) Multiple Choice Question
7.) Multiple Choice Question
The M25 London orbital road was completed 25 years ago, and opened by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Which song was inspired by the M25?
Finally, Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce after a mere 72 days of marriage to basketball player Kris Humphries. So who was married for the shortest time?
Chris
Rea's The Road To Hell
The
Talking Heads' Road To Nowhere
Orbital's
Are We Here?
Kim
Kardashian
Eminem
Nicolas
Cage
Renee
Zellweger
Answers
Answers
It
was a stick. A student from a nearby school presented the Queen with a traditional eucalyptus stick, featuring a text inscription. But Prince Philip instructed the student to put the stick on the displayed nest, prompting laughter from gathered dignitaries.
It's
dancing. Mr Berlusconi claimed that bunga bunga was "nothing more than a dance". Critics of the leader have previously suggested that its meaning was more risque.
It's whales at a marine park. The lawsuit filed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) says the killer whales were seized from the ocean as babies, then denied freedom and everything else that was natural to them. SeaWorld says the effort to extend the protections of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, beyond humans is baseless.
It's the subway station, which serves downtown Washington.
It's
advancing towards the New Zealand team. The International Rugby Board issued the fine after Les Bleus advanced in a v-formation. They were supposed to have stayed behind the 10-metre line in their own half.
It's
1804. The world's population is expected to pass 10 billion by 2100.
It's
Chris Rea's The Road to Hell. He apparently wrote it while sitting in a traffic jam on the M25. It was Orbital's name that was inspired by the M25.
It's
Israel, ranked 17th. Greece is one place below the UK at 29 and Barbados is ranked 47th.
It's
Elmo. The show has a new cast of local characters, led by a six-year-old girl named Rani who loves cricket and traditional Pakistani music. The show started filming last week and will air at the end of November.
It's
Bosnia. Adnan Mevic, born in Sarajevo in October 1999, was chosen by the UN to be the symbolic six billionth baby. For this latest landmark, the UN has not chosen a symbolic newborn itself, but charities have picked their own Baby Seven Billion born on 31 October.
It's Knowles, who said growing criticism of the church's handling of the protests on its steps had made his position untenable. Horta-Osorio stood back as chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group on health grounds. Papandreou refused to resign, despite losing support for his referendum plan.
They
are titles of 007 books that have not - yet - been used for Bond films. On Thursday it was announced that the latest Bond film, the 23rd in the franchise, will be called Skyfall.
It's the future. Experiments with Eurasian jays have shown that the birds store food that they will want in the future - "planning" for their impending needs, according to findings published in the journal Biology Letters. Previous claims that birds "plan" in this way have been controversial.
It's
still Kardashian. Eminem's second marriage to Kim Mathers lasted 82 days, Cage and Lisa Marie Presley were wedded for only 121 days, and Zellweger and Kenny Chesney for 121 days, according to reports. Britney Spears' marriage to Jason Alexander lasted only 55 hours.
Your Score
Your Score
0 - 2 : Slow lane
0 - 3 : I don't
3 - 5 : Middle lane
4 - 6 : Always a bridesmaid
6 - 7 : Full speed ahead
7 - 7 : I do
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