Answers to News Questions

Who or what are the following and why have they been in the news ?

1. Abdulaziz A-Hiiji
2. Jean Claude Baumgartner
3. Christian Wulff
4. Johan-Friso of the Netherlands
5. Mervyn Westfield
6. The Death of Leon Klinghoffer
7. Hoy Hill
8. Schmallenberg Virus
9. Stephen Farrow
10. Heidi Thomas
11. Petr Skyllberg
12. LOCOG
13. Skye Gyngell
14. Zach Avery
15. Peter Rippington
16. Derek Thompson
17. June Hautot
18. Ed Sheeran
19. Madamoiselle
20. Edinburgh Woollen Mills
21. Marie Colvin
22. Nikki Sinclare
23. Eric Joyce
24. Emma Harrison
25. Christopher Tappin


In Other News

1. Which MP asked the official portrait painter to paint him looking a little taller ?
2. Heston Blumenthal will be making hot cross buns for Waitrose using which flavor ?
3. Which European politician admitted that David Cameron was right to veto the Euro Treaty ?
4. In which two team events did GB win gold medals in the Olympic Velodrome test event ?
5. Administrators were called in to which film studios last week ?
6. Which team knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup ?
7. Who is the new manager of Leeds Utd ?
8. Which former cabinet minister in the Heath Government passed away last week ?
9. Which two events at the Olympic test event were won by Sir Chris Hoy ?
10. Which lowly team drew in the FA Cup with Spurs last week ?
11. Who won the Welsh Open Snooker title ?
12. The first test tube what was created last week ?
13. What did a survey reveal to be the healthiest city in the UK last week ?
14. Team which scored 3 own goals v. Liverpool in FA Cup last week ?
15. What went wrong with the Brighton half Marathon ?
16. Who called the BBC a “Declining Empire “ ?
17. Which filesharing website has been declared illegal in the UK ?
18. Which country announced it will be officially free of polio by next year ?
19. Which boxer is facing an enquiry over his admission that he has gone easy on opponents in fights in order to help his family win bets ?
20. Which BBC set will be used as temporary housing ?
21. Who won the Brits for Best Female and Best Album ?
22. Who announced profits of £2.4 billion ?
23. Which comedian passed away aged 85 ?
24. To whom did Adele gesture with her middle finger when her acceptance speech at the Brits was cut short ?
25. ITV news apologized last week for using which word during a report ?
26. Man City beat which team 4 – 0 in the Europa League ?
27. Which popular TV presenter was hurt when she fell from a horse last week ?
28. The US Supreme Court rejected whose appeal against his murder conviction last week ?
29. An inquest into whose death finally opened in Australia last week ?
30. JK Rowling announced that she has signed a deal to write what ?
31. Who plays the Queen in a new TV drama based on the Michael Fagan intrusion incident in the 80s ?
32. Where did the new Blue Peter garden open last week ?
33. Who opened it officially ?
34. Man Utd were beaten 2 – 1 by which team in the Europa League ?
35. Which university’s Conservative association has been stripped of its recognition over an unpaid bill ?
36. Which airline asked a kidney patient to pay for a seat for his dialysis machine ?

Answers

Who or what are the following and why have they been in the news ?

1. London based oil sheikh accused of links with 9/11 terrorists
2. Convicted of pocketing £230,000 of money from investors including Theo Paphitis and Peter Jones
3. President of Germany who resigned over corruption scandal
4. Prince of the Netherlands critically injured in an avalanche while skiing
5. Former Essex bowler convicted of deliberately bowling badly for financial gain
6. Controversial English national Opera production based on hijacking of the Achille Lauro
7. Nickname of public screen to be erected outside Olympic Stadium
8. So called ‘deformed lamb ‘ virus
9. Arrested in connection with the John Suddarts murder
10. Writer of popular “Call the Midwife” TV series
11. Swedish man who survived two months being trapped in his snow bound car.
12. Olympics organizing committee selling off more tickets
13. Chef who erased her own Michelin star – claiming that it raised customers’ expectations too high.
14. 5 year old boy in the papers for being convinced that he is a girl
15. Teacher who was tragically killed in the bus crash
16. Driver accused of falling asleep at the wheel, causing the crash
17. 75 year old woman who harangues Andrew Lansley
18. Winner of Best Male Artist and Best Breakthrough Act at the Brits
19. Term which has now been banned in France
20. Company that bought Peacocks out of Administration
21. Sunday Times journalist tragically killed in shelling of Homs in Syria
22. MEP arrested over expenses fraud allegations
23. Labour MP arrested for alleged assault in House of Commons bar
24. Government ‘families champion’ quit over fraud allegations.
25. British retired businessman extradited to USA over arms to Iran allegations

In Other News

1. Speaker John Bercow
2. Earl Grey
3. Sarkozy
4. Women’s Team Sprint – Women’s Team Pursuit
5. Twickenham
6. Sunderland
7. Neil Warnock
8. Robert Carr
9. Men’s Sprint – Men’s Keirin
10. Stevenage
11. Ding Junhui
12. Hamburger
13. Bristol
14. Brighton and Hove Albion
15. It had been wrongly measured out and turned out to be about 300 metres too long
16. Jeremy Paxman
17. Pirate Bay
18. Polio
19. Carl, Froch
20. Waterloo Road
21. Adele
22. Centica
23. Frank Carson
24. James Corden
25. Coloured
26. Porto
27. Lorraine Kelly
28. Phil Spector
29. Azaria Chamberlain – the ‘dingo baby’
30. A novel for adults
31. Emma Thompson
32. Media City Salford
33. The Princess Royal
34. Ajax
35. Oxford University
36. Easyjet