Who or what are the following and why have they been in the news?
1. Elliot Rodger
2. Petro Poroshenko
3. Wojciech Jaruzelski
4. Bill Heffernan
5. Catherine Bearder
6. Guillermo Garcia Lopez
7. Dave Smith
8. Malavath Purna
9. Mario Pocchetino
10. Lord Oakeshott
11. Meriam Ibrahim
12. Matthew Saad Muhammad
13. Chris Jordan
14. Solva
15. Quirke
16. Garbine Muguruza
17. Shoko Maru
18. Lord Rennard
19. Abdel Fattah al Sisi
20. George Hamilton
In Other News
1. Who won the Monaco GP?
2. In which position did the Lib Dems finish in the European elections
3. Who won the PGA?
4. What was the result of the Division 1 play off final?
5. – and the Heineken cup Final?
6. Which team won the Championship play off?
7. – and the Champions League?
8. Pfizer dropped their takeover bid for which company?
9. What was voted the nation’s favourite fairy tale?
10. What was the result of the League 2 play off final?
11. Who announced that he is saying his goodbye through his poetry?
12. Who announced that he is to sell Tracey Emin’s My Bed?
13. Which song did Rolf Harris sing a part of in court?
14. There were claims that attempts were being made to fix Scotland’s friendly match against which country?
15. Who was dumped out of the French Open just days after her engagement was broken?
16. Whose new British long jump record was finally ratified?
17. Name the two members of One Direction allegedly filmed smoking cannabis
18. Which finding of the British Social Attitudes Survey caused most headlines last week?
19. Name the owner of Man Utd. who passed away aged 85
20. Which celebrity announced that he is to appear on a celebrity version of the Jeremy Kyle show?
21. Maya Angelou passed away last week. What was the title of her first volume of autobiography?
22. Which company announced plans to build a self driving car?
23. Who had to apologise for sexist comments he made on Question Time?
24. In the Forbes List who retained her place as the world’s most powerful woman?
25. Panorama criticized which charity for investing in companies that manufacture arms, tobacco and alcohol?
26. The Mayor of New York repealed a ban on which creatures?
27. What was the score in the England v. Peru match?
28. Name all the goalscorers
29. Who announced he will be playing for Lancashire in the T20 blast?
30. Who resigned from The Oldie last week?
Who or what are the following and why have they been in the news?
1. Son of Hunger Games film director who shot 7 people
2. Chocolate tycoon who claimed victory in the Ukrainian Elections
3. Army chief who declared martial law in Poland in 1981 – passed away
4. Australian senator who took a fake pipe bomb into Parliament to demonstrate security failings
5. The only Lib Dem MEP to retain a seat
6. Player who knocked Stanislaus Wawrinka out of the French Open in the first round
7. Newly elected UKIP councilor in Redditch suspended for alleged racist and homophobic comments on social media
8. Youngest female to scale Mount Everest – 16 years old
9. Announced as new manager of Spurs
10. Peer behind alleged attempts to replace Nick Clegg with Vince Cable after European elections
11. She has been sentenced to death in Sudan for giving up her muslim faith to become a christian after marrying a christian
12. Former world Light Heavyweight boxing champion passed away aged 59
13. England bowler responsible for 2 ODI victories over Sri Lanka
14. Pembrokeshire village being used as Llareggub in new film of Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood
15. BBC Crime Drama which received a slew of complaints about poor sound quality
16. Player who knocked Serena Williams out of the French Open
17. Japanese oil tanker which exploded
18. Lib Dem Peer apologized to 4 women who accused him of sexual harrassment
19. Won the Egyptian elections
20. New Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland
In Other News
1. Nico Rosberg
2. 5th
3. Rory McIlroy
4. Rotherham 2 – Orient 0 5. Toulon 23 – Saracens 6
6. QPR
7. Real MAdrid
8. AstraZeneca
9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
10. Fleetwood 1 – Burton 0
11. Clive James
12. Charles Saatchi
13. Jake the Peg
14. Nigeria
15. Caroline Wozniacki
16. Greg Rutherford
17. Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik
18. There has been a rise in the number of people admitting racism
19. Malcolm Glazer
20. Michael Barrymore
21. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
22. Google
23. Joey Barton
24. Angela Merkel
25. Comic Relief
26. Ferrets
27. 3 - 0
28. Sturridge – Cahill and Jagielka
29. Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff
30. Richard Ingrams
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