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It’s the World News 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much global news from the past week you’ve read, heard and watched… and how much has stayed lodged in the old grey matter.
1.) Multiple Choice Question
We learnt this week that MGM is looking for a buyer, after struggling to re-pay debts of nearly £2.5bn. What is the studio’s unofficial motto?
Making dreams come true
More stars than there are in heaven
Bringing stories to life
2.) Multiple Choice Question
A New York library discovered two unreturned books checked out by George Washington that have accrued $300,000 in fines for being 220 years late. One book was The Law of Nations, what was the other?
The Works of Shakespeare
Debates from Britain’s House of Commons
The Book of Common Prayer
3.) Multiple Choice Question
Sotheby’s is to auction a never-published tribute by Mark Twain to a woman - “In all things she was intense: in her this characteristic was not a mere glow, dispensing warmth, but a consuming fire.” Who was it?
His wife
His mother
His daughter
4.) Multiple Choice Question
A statement from a witness to the notorious Gunfight at the OK Corral has been found in a box, more than 125 years after the shootout. It has never been clear who fired first. Whom does the statement blame?
Lawman Wyatt Earp’s group
The drunken outlaws
Neither
5.) Multiple Choice Question
A radical Muslim group in America has warned the creators of the TV satirical animation show, South Park, that they could face retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. Who was depicted taking drugs in the two-part episode?
Jesus Christ
Buddha
Shiva
6.) Multiple Choice Question
A French official has announced that the country is pushing ahead with plans for a public ban on the niqab, a full-face veil. Which country was poised to become the first in Europe to ban the Islamic garment this week?
Germany
The Netherlands
Belgium
7.) Multiple Choice Question
Australia is planning tough rules - including tracking of ships -to protect the Great Barrier Reef. Why must the new rules be ratified by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)?
Part of the area falls outside Australia’s territorial waters
Because the IMO must ratify all maritime decisions
The reef has UN protection
Answers
More stars than there are in heaven. MGM is home to some of the most famous franchises in cinema history, including James Bond and the Pink Panther. But staggering under the weight of almost $4bn of debt, the studio is now looking for a buyer.The first president of the United States of America borrowed the Debates along with the Law of Nations from the New York Society Library in 1789. At the time, it was the only library in Manhattan.Twain -whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens - was devastated when his daughter Olivia “Susy” Clemens died of spinal meningitis when she was 24.On 26 October, 1881, Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday confronted Ike and Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury behind the OK Corral. But it still remains unclear which party fired first and whether all of the outlaws were armed.It was Buddha. After the warning, the programme makers beeped out the words Prophet Muhammad and plastered the episode with the word “CENSORED”.Hours before the Belgian parliament was due to debate the banning in public places of the full-face veil, worn by some Muslim women, the country’s government collapsed.The area falls outside Australia’s territorial waters. The move follows the st*****ng of Chinese coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 on Douglas Shoal, on the reef’s southern tip, last month.Your Score
0 - 3 : Underwater
4 - 6 : Coming up
7 - 7 : Buoyant
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