Answers to News Questions

In the News

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

1. Doctor Werner Lang
2. Lac Magnétic, Quebec
3. Ralph Tarrant
4. Asiana Airlines
5. Robbie Deans
6. The Human Voice
7. Andy Flower
8. Steve Bate
9. Rory Kinnear
10. Malcolm Hayes
11. Reece Elliot
12. Barry George
13. Danny Nightingale
14. Manuel Pellegrini
15. Ashton Agar
16. Charles Foley
17. Albert de Salvo
18. Malala Yousafzai
19. Shahid Khan
20. Andy Harris
21. Martha Renee Kolleh

In Other News

1. What was the score in the third Lions v. Wallabies test?
2. Who scored the Lions’ tries in the final test?
3. Who was finally deported to Jordan last week?
4. What was announced by Michael Parkinson last week?
5. What was the score in the Wimbledon Men’s Singles final?
6. Who won the Wimbledon Ladies Singles?
7. Who resigned from the Privy Council last week?
8. Which famous volcano began erupting last week?
9. Who won the German Grand Prix?
10. Who was criticized for saying that the Wimbledon Ladies singles was never going to be “a looker”?
11. Who issued a press release saying that he is going to be divorcing his wife last week?
12. Laura Robson achieved a career high ranking last week – what is it ?
13. Which member of the Royal family announced that she is expecting a baby last week?
14. Which opera star suffered a pulmonary embolism last week?
15. Who agreed to appear before MPs last week?
16. Who was attacked in HMP Wakefield?
17. David Haye signed to fight whom last week?
18. The Eu have called for the UK to adopt which term as the maximum sentence without automatic review?
19. Athletes from which country failed over 30 drugs tests at the Mediterranean Games?
20. Ireland qualified for which world cup last week?
21. What is the controversial pay rise recommended by IPSA for MPs?
22. What is Barak Obama’s favourite food?
23. Which former champion is out of the world athletics championships in Moscow this summer?
24. Who top scored in England’s 1st innings in the first Ashes Test?
25. Who had urine thrown over him following a controversial incident in the previous day’s stage at the Tour de France?
26. James Anderson passed Freddie Trueman’s test wicket total in the first test. How many did Trueman take?
27. Which two firms are facing a public fraud probe?
28. In a poll of books which was the book that most people gave up before finishing?
29. What did George Osborne admit that he had never visited last week?
30. Whose sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal last week?
31. Which former original Eastenders actress passed away last week?
32. Which book topped the list of most abandoned modern classics?
33. The star of a popular series of TV adverts passed away last week – who was he and what did he advertise?
34. Where did Greenpeace activists make a protest last week?
35. What happened to the care pathway for terminally ill patients last week?
36. Name the Archers spin off which can only be picked up on digital radio?
37. The immigration backlog reached which figure last week?
38. Which welsh village is voting on the spelling of its name?
39. Which TV veteran passed away aged 87?
40. Heathrow was shut down following a 787 dreamliner fire. Which airline was involved?
41. Which famous actor was allegedly hurt during a stage fight in a production of Macbeth last week?
42. What happened in Bretigny sur Orge just outside Paris?
43. Who was widely condemned for failing to walk during the first test?
44. Which rugby player was allegedly knocked out in a brawl with a team mate, before he has even played for the club?

Answers

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

1. Inventor of the Trabant car, passed away last week
2. Site of the oil train explosion
3. Britain’s oldest man – 110 last week
4. Korean airline in the San Francisco airport crash
5. Sacked coach of the Australian Rugby team
6. New film starring Sophia Loren
7. Coach of the England cricket team
8. 1st blind man to scale El Capital mountain in California
9. Actor tipped as the next Doctor Who, claimed he had never even watched it
10. Headteacher who had a Baasil Falwty style meltdown and took school’s electric organ out and ran over it repeatedly
11. Jailed for making online threats to kill 200 children
12. Lost case for compensation over his imprisonment for the Jill Dando murder
13. SAS Sniper found guilty of illegal possession of a gun
14. New manager of Man City
15. Scored 98 in first test – highest ever by a no 11 batsman – beating previous record by Tino Best
16. Inventor of ‘Twister’ – passed away
17. Body to be exhumed for DNA tests to prove whether he really was The Boston Strangler
18. Girl shot in Pakistan after championing education for girls, addressed United Nations last week
19. New owner of Fulham FC
20. First professional opponent of Olymipic boxing champion Luke Campbell
21. Yorkshire café owner, placed a notice in window saying that customers shouldn’t come in if they are allergic to black people.

In Other News

1. 41 – 16 to the Lions
2. Corbisiero – Sexton – North - Roberts
3. Abu Qatada, who waved bye bye from RAF Northolt
4. He has prostate cancer
5. 6-4 / 7-5/ 6 - 4
6. Marion Bartoli bt. Sabine Lisicki
7. John Prescott
8. Popocatapetl
9. Sebastian Vettel
10. John Inverdale
11. Charles Saatchi
12. 27th in the world
13. Zara Tindall (Phillips)
14. Placido Domingo
15. Rupert Murdoch
16. Mark Bridger
17. Tyson Fury
18. 25 years
19. Turkey
20. 2015 cricket world cup
21. 12%
22. Broccoli
23. Phillips Idowu
24. Jonathan Trott - 48
25. Mark Cavendish
26. 307
27. G4S - SERCO
28. “The Casual Vacancy” by JK Rowling
29. A food bank
30. Stuart Hall
31. Anna Wing – Lou Beale from the start in the 80s
32. “Catch 22” by Joseph Heller
33. Louis the chimp – star of the Brooke Bond tea adverts
34. They scaled the Shard in London
35. It has been axed
36. Ambridge Extra
37. 500,000
38. Llansain(t)ffraid ( some want the T and some don’t)
39. Alan Whicker
40. Ethiopian Airlines
41. Sir Kenneth Branagh
42. A train derailment which caused fatalities
43. Stuart Broad
44. Gavin Henson