Answers to News Questions

News Questions

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

1. Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble
2. Oskar Zorilla
3. A Rush of Blood to the Head
4. Katie Walsh
5. Bertrand Picard
6. Jonathan Taylor
7. Liberty Council
8. Paul Mosley
9. Finding Dory
10. Yangbyon
11. Tony Hall
12. Connie Gustfason
13. Motorola Dyna TAC 800X
14. Rob Wilson MP
15. Junior Bradshaw and Kevin Liverpool
16. Sir James Crosby – Andy Hornby – Baron Stevenson
17. Sergei Polunin
18. Paris Brown
19. Home
20. Kamala Harris
21. Malala Yousafzai
22. H7N9

In Other News

1. Who became manager of Sunderland before facing a barrage of criticism for his alleged political views?
2. The cost of a prescription in England has risen to how much?
3. Who quit as a director of Sunderland FC?
4. Who won the University Boat Race?
5. Which legal defence is to be scrapped?
6. Whom did Andy Murray defeat in the final of the Miami Masters?
7. The launch of which helpline was aborted last week?
8. Who said he could live on £53 a week if he had to ( he doesn’t have to )
9. What was the score between QPR and Fulham?
10. Who scored the only goal in the Chelsea v. Man Utd. FA Cup tie?
11. Who left his post as Leeds Utd. manager?
12. Which author announced he has months to live with bowel cancer?
13. Who left his monkey in Customs in Munich?
14. Which international Rugby Union coach was informed that his contract will not be renewed?
15. What was the score between Barcelona and Paris St. Germain?
16. What was the score between Bayern Munich and Juventus?
17. The UN approved a treaty on what?
18. It was announced that bald men are at a greater risk of what?
19. For what did Simon Brodkin receive a 6 month conditional caution?
20. Which power company were fined £10.5 million by Ofgem
21. Which footballer was sentenced to 250 hours of community service for driving without insurance?
22. Which 87 year old actor passed away?
23. Which tennis player has been diagnosed with glandular fever?
24. What was the score between Real Madrid and Galatasaray?
25. Who announced that he is going to take a voluntary 5% pay cut?
26. The only person to win both an Oscar and a Booker prize died last week. Who was she?
27. What was the score between Chelsea and Rubin Kazan? 28. What was the score between Spurs and Basel?
29. What was the score between Newcastle and Benfica?
30. Which columnist has left the Daily Telegraph website after complaints from readers that his appointment as a columnist will dumb down the paper?
31. British embassy staff in which country were warned that their safety could not be guaranteed by the host country? 32. Which British city is at the centre of a measles epidemic?
33. BA announced plans to start phasing out what?

Answers

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

1. Number 1 single – rerelease by Ant and Dec
2. Oxford cox in Boart Race, caught repeatedly swearing on camera
3. Coldplay album voted the favourite album of all time by BBC Radio 2 listeners
4. Jockey – claimed Grand National horses are treated better than some children
5. Swiss adventurer aiming to cross the Atlantic in his solar powered plane “Solar Impulse”
6. Teacher who passed away on a school skiing trip
7. Horse that won the Irish Grand National
8. Convicted of manslaughter with Mick and Mairead Philpott
9. Sequel to Finding Nemo announced
10. North Korean Nuclear reprocessing facility reopened
11. New Dg of the BBC
12. Revealed last week as Truman Capote’s original name for Holly Golightly in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
13. First mobile phone celebrated its 40th anniversary last week
14. MP accidentally posted a link to a hard core porn site
15. Convicted of plotting to rob and murder Joss Stone
16. Former HBOS heads heavily criticized by Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards
17. Ballet dancer who failed to turn up for rehearsals for Midnight Express
18. New teenage Youth Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent
19. Facebook’s new phone
20. Attorney General of California. Obama called her ‘by far the best looking Attorney General in the country’ then had to apologise for making this ‘sexist remark’.
21. Pakistan teenager shot in the head for speaking out for education for girls. She announced the first grant from her charity to pay or the education of 40 girls in the Swat Valley
22. New deadly strain of bird flu

In Other News

1. Paolo di Canio
2. £7.85
3. David Milliband
4. Oxford
5. Marital Coercion
6. David Ferrer
7. NHS 111
8. Ian Duncan Smith
9. 2 - 3
10. Demba Ba
11. Neil Warnock
12. Iain Banks
13. Justin Bieber
14. Declan Kidney
15. 2 - 2
16. 2 - 0
17. Global Arms Trade
18. Heart Disease
19. Comedian who ‘invaded pitch’ as character Jason Bent in Everton v.Man City game
20. SSE
21. Carlos Tevez
22. Milo O’Shea
23. Heather Watson
24. 3 - 0
25. Barack Obama
26. Ruth Prawer Jabhala
27. 3 - 1
28. 2 - 2
29. 1 - 3
30. Kelvin Mackenzie
31. North Korea
32. Swansea
33. Boeing 747