In the News
Who or what are the following and why have
they been in the news?
1.
Isis
2.
Alexander Pacteau
3.
Manjinder Virk
4.
Bloomberg
5.
Lord Janner
6.
Periscope
7.
Adam Peaty
8.
Seedling – Balder Success
9.
Waleed Ghani
10.
Viv Nicholson
11.
Many Clouds
12.
Watson
13.
Delroy Facey
14.
John Zylinski
15.
Lance Corporal Joshua Leakey
16.
SS City of Cairo
17.
Jurgen Klopp
18.
Aaron Hernandez
19.
USS Oklahoma
20.
Alex Reppold
21.
Richard Desmond
22.
Escape from Camp 14
23.
Aaron Cook
24.
Mustafa Kamal
In Other News
1.
What was Sir Ian Botham’s England test wickets
record beaten by James Anderson this week?
2.
Who described the killing of 1.5 million
Armenians during world war II as
genocide
3.
Who said last week “I’m more British than UKIP”
4.
Who announced candidacy for the Democratic
Nomination?
5.
Who won the Olivier Award for playing Madame Arcati
in Blithe Spirit?
6.
Which team won the Boat Race?
7.
What was the score in the Manchester football
derby?
8.
What position did Sir Bradley Wiggins finish in
Paris – Roubaix – and why did he and a number of other competitors face
censure?
9.
Who won the Chinese GP?
10.
How far did 300 runners in last weekend’s
Portsmouth 10K actually run?
11.
Whose notebook sold for £700000 last week?
12.
Who is to receive a BAFTA Fellowship?
13.
Who called for a ban on chewing gum in pubic?
14.
Gunter Grass passed away last week. What was the
English title of his famous book Die Blechtrommel?
15.
The 5th June will be marked how by
the BBC?
16.
Which Liverpool player was supposedly shown in a
Youtube video inhaling laughing gas?
17.
Who won the US Masters?
18.
Which famous rugby club are celebrating their
125th anniversary
19.
Who faced Twitter death threats after
speculation that she might replace Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear?
20.
Who became the UN’s global advocate for
elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards?
21.
Which singer passed away , aged 73?
22.
Who was named Laureus Sports Person of the year?
23.
What was the champions league score between
Barcelona and PSG?
24.
– and Porto and Bayern Munich?
25.
A surplus of £38million angered fans of which
football club?
26.
In which country were the world’s oldest ‘tools’
discovered?
27.
Who scored a century for England in the second
innings of the first test in Antigua?
28.
Who appeared in Westminster Magistrates Court on
sexual assault charges?
Answers
Who or what are the following and why have
they been in the news?
1.
It has been removed from the UN Weather agency
list of names for Hurricanes
2.
Charged with murder of Karen Buckley
3.
Actress playing first Asian regular character in
Midsomer Murders
4.
Financial trading platform crashed
5.
Escaped trial over historic sexual allegations
due to advanced dementia
6.
Video streaming app which BBC bosses have told
Tony Blackburn off for using
7.
Broke world 100m breaststroke record – first man
under 58 seconds.
8.
Both were horses put down after the Grand
National
9.
Man who has revived the Whig Party
10.
Pools Winner, subject of Spend Spend Spen –
passed away
11.
Horse that won the Grand National
12.
IBM supercomputer that has now written a cook
book
13.
Ex Bolton Wanderers player convicted of match
fixing
14.
Polish Prince who has challenged Nigel Farage to
a duel in Hyde Park
15.
He received his VC from the Queen
16.
Wartime wreck from which £34 million of silver
rupees have been recovered
17.
Quit as Borussia Dortmund Manager
18.
Former New England Patriots star jailed for
murder
19.
Pearl Harbour ship – USA to exhume over 300 of
the crew
20.
Became Britain’s youngest head teacher at 28
21.
Daily Express owner donating £1.3 million to
UKIP
22.
Book given to hundreds of prisoners to promote
literacy
23.
British Taekwondo fighter, switched allegiance
to Moldova
24.
Resigned as IOC President
In Other News
1.
383
2.
Pope Francis
3.
Amir Khan
4.
Hillary Clinton
5.
Angela Lansbury
6.
Oxford
7.
4 – 2 Man Utd
8.
18th – he and others were censured
for crossing a level crossings just seconds before a train passed
9.
Lewis Hamilton
10.
A missing marshal caused them to run 13000m
11.
Alan Turing
12.
Jon Snow
13.
Jamie Oliver
14.
The Tin Drum
15.
National Music Day
16.
Raheem Sterling
17.
Jordan Spieth
18.
The Barbarians
19.
Sue Perkins
20.
Daniel Craig
21.
Percy Sledge
22.
Novak Djokovic
23.
3 – 1 Barcelona
24.
3 – 1 Porto
25.
Newcastle United
26.
Kenya
27.
Gary Balance
28.
Neil “Doctor” Fox
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