Saturday, 25 April 2015

Answers to News Questions

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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