'Weekly News Quiz'
Week End 9th Nov '08
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1. Where was a pizza ad dropped after it showed animations of Heath Ledger & Sir Edmund Hillary dancing to 'Thriller'?
New Zealand
Australia
United Kingdom
2. Whose £1bn golf resort was approved in Aberdeenshire, Scotland?
Tom Hicks
George Gillet Jnr
Donald Trump
3. A supermarket from which country is challenging an EU ban on selling "ugly" fruit and veg?
Poland
France
United Kingdom
4. Best-selling author Michael Crichton, who died this week, created which long-running TV series?
Sopranos
ER
Dallas
5. British army interpreter Daniel James was found guilty of spying for which country?
China
Russia
Iran
6. When Sarah Palin was accused of not knowing Africa was a continent, what did she say about her accusers?
Those guys are jerks
Those guys study maps all day
Those guys are full of s#%t
7. What pet did Barack Obama promise his daughters if he became President?
Cat
Dog
Pot-bellied Pig
8. Who comprehensively beat Roy Jones Jr in a boxing bout in New York this week?
Joe Calzaghe
Joe Wurzelbacher
Joe Biden
9. Which country's Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft went into orbit around the moon?
Pakistan
China
India
10. Which police force issued a warrant for the arrest of rapper Mos Def over an alleged scuffle with a photographer?
Canberra
Montreal
Las Vegas
Answers:
1. New Zealand 2. Donald Trump 3. United Kingdom 4. ER 5. Iran 6. Those guys are jerks 7. Dog 8. Joe Calzaghe 9. India 10. Las Vegas
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