Answers to News Questions

In The News

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

1. The House of One
2. The Hoppings
3. Gerry Conlon
4. Patsy Byrne
5. Rui Costa
6. Naomi Broady
7. Andy Coulson
8. Thomas Ganter
9. Helena Costa
10. Giorgio Chellini
11. Princess Cristina de Borbon
12. Tara Moore
13. Owen Williams
14. Corinne Hutton
15. Fabio Fognini
16. Michael Voudouri
17. Chia Labouef
18. Becky James

In Other News

1. What was the score in the world cup group game between Belgium and Russia?
2. What was the first African country to score 4 goals in a game at a world cup?
3. Who won the Austrian Grand Prix?
4. What was the score in the third tests between England and the All Blacks?
5. Which country’s FA was implicated in a match rigging scandal last week?
6. What change is being made next month to the way that the UK singles chart will be compiled?
7. What was the score in the 2nd test between Wales and South Africa?
8. The 24th June was the 700th anniversary of which historic event?
9. Who was Andy Murray’s first 2014 Wimbledon opponent?
10. 2 journalists with which TV Channel were jailed in Egypt for 7 years for allegedly helping a terrorist organization?
11. What was the verdict in the Rebekah Brookes trial?
12. A draft of which Bob Dylan song sold for $2million at auction last week?
13. Which everyday item has been banned from Wimbledon 2014?
14. Who was freed in Sudan but prevented from leaving the country?
15. What was the score in England’s final world cup group game?
16. Who hit a defiant second innings century in England’s loss to Sri Lanka in the second test?
17. Who was out in the last ball of the same game?
18. Who is to donate ¼ million pounds to independent bookshops?
19. The One Show viewers decided that the Longitude Prize shall be awarded within which specific field?
20. Which 98 year old ‘bad guy’ actor passed away last week?
21. Name the only 2 players in the England squad who didn’t play in any of the three group matches at all?
22. A special edition of the Antiques Roadshow was filmed in Northern Ireland with whom?
23. The tallest permanent Maypole in England was cut down in which town last week?
24. Which famous and historic well ran dry last week?
25. Which British player played in his 23rd consecutive Wimbledon tournament?
26. What is the Queen to have surveyed for the first time ever?
27. Who is donating a collection of Alamo artefacts to San Antonio?
28. Who was acquitted of terrorism offences in Jordan?
29. Which company was criticized for sending ‘false’ threatening solicitor’s letters to customers?
30. Luis Suarez has been banned from football for which period of time?
31. Who won the National Time Trialling championships?
32. A new study revealed that what is more satisfying than an iphone?

Answers

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

1. Berlin building being developed for use by Christians, Jews and Muslims
2. The world’s oldest travelling fair which visited Newcastle last week
3. Man wrongly convicted of Guildford pub bombing – passed away
4. Actress, best known for playing Nursie in Blackadder II, who passed away
5. Winner of the Tour of Switzerland
6. British tennis player who won her first round match
7. Found guilty of phone hacking
8. German winner of BP Portrait award for Man With a Plaid Blanket
9. 1st woman to coach a men’s pro football club, resigned because she said that as far as the club were concerned she was just a ‘face’
10. Italian footballer bitten by Luis Suarez during their world cup match
11. Sister of King Felipe VI of Spain, charged with tax fraud
12. British tennis player who held two match points against Vera Zvonereva, but still lost
13. Wales international rugby union centre suffered serious neck injury in Singapore
14. Recipient of the UK’s first double hand transplant
15. Italian tennis player fined in Wimbledon for saying that an umpire had too much gel in his hair
16. Jailed for 11 years for tax fraud
17. Actor arrested in New York for misbehaving during a performance of Cabaret which he was watching
18. Welsh world champion cyclist ruled out of Commonwealth Games through injury

In Other News

1. 1 – 0 Belgium
2. Algeria ( v. South Korea)
3. Nico Rosberg
4. 36 – 13 to the All Blacks
5. Ghana
6. Music streamed free online will be included for the first time
7. 31 – 30 South Africa
8. Battle of Bannockburn
9. David Goffin
10. Al Jazeera
11. She was acquitted
12. Like A Rolling Stone
13. Thermos Flasks
14. Meriam Ibrahim
15. England 0 – Costa Rica - 0
16. Moeen Ali
17. James Anderson
18. James Patterson
19. Research into antibiotic resistance
20. Eli Wallach
21. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Fraser Forster
22. Queen Elizabeth II
23. Otley
24. Royal Tunbridge Wells Chalybeate Spring
25. Jamie Delgado
26. Her collection of pictures
27. Phil Collins
28. Abu Qatada
29. Wonga.com
30. 4 months
31. Sir Bradley Wiggins
32. A new hip