Answers to News Questions

In the News

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

1. Jonny Mitchell
2. Salustiano Sanchez
3. Javier Gomez
4. Chris Horner
5. Aaron Alexis
6. Christopher Jeffries
7. Nina Davulrui
8. Stephen Lee
9. Yohan Cabaye
10. Jackie Lomax
11. Adrian Lee
12. Alison Balsom
13. Simon McCoy
14. Sunny Ozell
15. Hiroshi Yamauchi
16. Doctor Sleep
17. Tamarillo
18. Glen James
19. Anna Wardley
20. Godfrey Bloom

In Other News

1. Which customer helpline was voted the worst in the UK?
2. American writers will be eligible for what from next year?
3. Which video game was released on Tuesday 18th ?
4. Who defeated Mo Farah in the Great North Run?
5. Who signed a new 5 year deal for Real Madrid?
6. What was the score in the GB v. Croatia Davis Cup tie?
7. A record number of kitesurfers took part in an event off Hayling Island. How many altogether?
8. Which two countries will contest the Davis Cup final?
9. Billy Connolly announced that he is suffering from what?
10. Why was rugby player Manu Tuilagi in the news last week?
11. Which country temporarily closed its last nuclear power plant last week?
12. What was the score in the Swansea v, Liverpool match?
13. Where was the Lib Dem Conference held?
14. What was the final score in the ODI series between England and Australia?
15. Who appealed against his 9 month ban from tennis for failing a drug test?
16. Iran announced plans to send what into space?
17. What was successfully floated last week?
18. What was the Champions League score between Man City and Viktoria Plsen?
19. – and Man Utd. and Bayer Leverkeusen?
20. Which ex – referee hit out against accusations of favouritism?
21. Who alleged in a tweet that other snooker players are guilty of match fixing, and then said he was referring to the past?
22. Which place in the UK has applied to the EU for permission to make Stilton cheese?
23. The ASA upheld claims that which washing up liquid lasts twice as long as competitors?
24. Who won the first time trial in the Tour of Britain?
25. Whose childhood home was put on eBay last week?
26. Child Beauty Pageants have been banned where?
27. GB have been drawn away to whom for their next Davis Cup match?
28. Last week saw a row over Spurs fans’ use of which three letter word?
29. In Europe, what was the score between Chelsea and Basel?
30. – and Arsenal and Marseilles?
31. – and AC Milan and Celtic?
32. Which Scottish town is upset over the use of its name in that new video game released last week?
33. Who is stepping down from presenting Sports Personality of the Year?
34. Which former world heavyweight boxing champion, who once beat Muhammad Ali, passed away last week?
35. What was the score between Swansea and Valencia?
36. – and Spurs and Tromso?
37. Which team clinched the cricket county championship?
38. – and who was their head coach, who suffered a heart attack earlier in the year?
39. To whom is the statue of Michael Jackson outside Craven Cottage being returned?
40. Which BBC sitcom is being revived by ITV?
41. What was the score between Wigan and Zulte Waregem?

Answers

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

1. Head of the Thornhill Academy in Educating Yorkshire
2. World’s oldest man who passed away aged 112
3. Beat Jonathan Brownlee in the final sprint to the line in the World Triathlon Final
4. Oldest person ever to win one of cycling’s grand tours, winning the Vuelta a Espana aged 41
5. Gunman in Washington DC Navy Yard shootings
6. Landlord wrongly arrested over murder of Joanna Yates, finally received an apology
7. New Miss America, who is of Indian heritage
8. Snooker player found guilty of match fixing
9. Player who apologized to Newcastle United fans for trying to move away from the club
10. Singer signed to the Apple label by the Beatles, worked extensively with George Harrison, never had the success he deserved – passed away
11. Chief Constable who has called for privately run drunk tanks
12. 1st British woman to win Artist of the Year in the Gramophone Classical Music Awards
13. Newsreader who mistakenly picked up a ream of copier paper instead of his notes, but in best BBC tradition carried on regardless
14. Married to Sir Patrick Stewart
15. Chief Executive of Nintendo, passed away
16. Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining
17. Olympic trials horse that has been cloned
18. Homeless American man who handed in a backpack he found containing $42,000. Since then he has received donations from the public in excess of this figure
19. Swimmer attempting to swim around the Isle of Wight for charity
20. UKIP MEP who called women ‘sluts’ at the party conference.

In Other News

1. HM Revenue and Customs
2. The Booker Prize
3. Grand Theft Auto V
4. Kenenisa Bikela
5. Christiano Ronaldo
6. 4 – 1 GB
7. 318 including Richard Branson
8. Serbia and the Czech Republic
9. Billy Connolly
10. Making bunny ears behind David Cameron in a photo shoot.
11. Japan
12. 2 - 2
13. Glasgow
14. 2 – 1 to Australia
15. Marin Cilic
16. A Persian cat!
17. The Costa Concordia
18. 3 - 0
19. 4 - 2
20. Mark Halsey
21. Ronnie O’Sullivan
22. Stilton! Under current EU rules Stilton is not one of the places which can legally call its cheese Stilton.
23. Fairy Liquid
24. Sir Bradley Wiggins
25. Eminem
26. France
27. USA
28. Yid
29. 2 – 1 to Basel
30. 2 – 1 to Arsenal
31. 2 – 0 to AC Milan
32. Hawick
33. Sue Barker
34. Ken Norton
35. 3 – 0 to Swansea
36. 3 – 0 to Spurs
37. Durham
38. Geoff Cook
39. Muhammad Al Fayed
40. Birds of a Feather