Answers to News Questions

In The News

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

1. Squee
2. Miffy
3. 3
4. The Ring O’Fire Anglesey Coastal Ultra Marathon
5. Lindsay Sandiford
6. Dan Evans
7. Tom Lackey
8. Sir John Chilcott
9. Major Nidal Hussain
10. Remploy
11. Gordon Taylor
12. Shakter Karagandy
13. Annette Iren Johansen
14. Peter Humphrey

In Other News

1. Who was not released from hospital despite early reports to the contrary?
2. Ohio State University is now being officially sponsored by which clothing brand?
3. Who caused controversy with her appearance at the MTV awards this week?
4. In which country did a mass wedding of police dogs take place?
5. A spoof advert by German media students caused a storm this week, showing a Mercedes car going back in time to do what? 6. There has been much opposition to the Miss World competition going ahead in which country? 7. Which Nobel Prize winning poet passed away last week?
8. A huge canyon was discovered where last week?
9. Who is returing to the BBC after 3 years to present a show on Radio5 live?
10. Which 83 year old faces charges of indecent assault and making indecent images?
11. Which all-time great welsh fly half passed away aged 83?
12. What was the score between Spurs and Dinamo Tbilisi?
13. – and between Swansea and Petrolul Ploesti?
14. Which team defeated Chelsea in the Super Cup?
15. Which English team are drawn in the same Champions League group as champions Bayern Munich?
16. What was the result of the Commons vote on military intervention in Syria?
17. Which actor funds a spy satellite to keep an eye on the Sudanese dictator?
18. Which children’s TV series of the 70s is set to reappear?
19. Name the 83 year old who played straight man to his brother in a double act who passed away last week?

Answers

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

1. An exclamation of delight put into the Oxford English Dictionary this week
2. The rabbit created by Dick Bruna given an update this week
3. The first phone network to scrap roaming charges
4. The first public appearance of Duke and Duchess of Cambridge since the birth of Prince George
5. Lost final appeal against execution for drug smuggling
6. British tennis player beat Bernard Tomic in US Open
7. He broke his own record to become the world’s oldest wing walker at 93 years of age
8. Head of the Iraq Inquiry, which has announced that it will not report until 2014
9. Fort Hood Gunman sentenced to death
10. Announced that its last three factories are to close
11. Chief Executive of the Professional Footballers’ Association, under fire for revealing he has gambling debts of over £100000
12. Football team Celtic beat 3 – 0 to qualify 3 – 2 for the Champions League group stages
13. Scientologist who claimed she auditioned to be Tom Cruise’s wife before his marriage to Katie Holmes
14. British corporate investigator whose televised ‘confession’ to corruption has been broadcast on Chinese TV

In Other News

1. Nelson Mandela
2. Abercrombie and Fitch
3. Miley Cyrus
4. Sri Lanka
5. Kill Hitler
6. Indonesia
7. Seamus Heaney
8. Underneath the Greenland Ice sheet
9. Adrian Chiles
10. Rolf Harris
11. Cliff Morgan
12. 3 – 0
13. 1 - 2
14. Bayern Munich
15. Manchester City
16. 285 – 272 against
17. George Clooney
18. The Wombles
19. Mike Winters Name the 83 year old who played straight man to his brother in a double act who passed away last week?