14/09/15

Weekly QuizWk3

Question1

Passengers had to use emergency slides to escape a fire on a British Airways jet last

week. From which city was the plane attempting to take-off when the fire

occurred?

a. Los Angeles b. Las Vegas

c. San Francisco

Question2

What type of natural disaster is affecting large areas of northern Japan?

a. wild fires b. flooding c. a blizzard

Question3

Which British sportswoman has had to defend herself against recent allegations

of cheating?

a. Rebecca Adlington b. Paula Radcliffe c. Lizzy Yarnold

Question4

In which country are heart-warming scenes like this occurring?

a. Hungary b. Ireland c. Germany

Question5

What did archaeologists recently discover while working near Stonehenge?

a. a large box containing ancient jewellery and clothing

b. evidence of an ancient roman town c.a buried 'superhenge' of ceremonial stones measuring 500 metres across

Question6

True or false, Serena Williams has just completed a Grand Slam by winning all

four of the major tennis tournaments this year?

Question7

Which Commonwealth country is considering an official change of flag?

a. New Zealand b. Malaysia c. Australia

Question8

What is the last name of the man on the left?

Question9

In which event did UK athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill recently win her second World

Championship title?

a. 10,000 metres b. heptathlon c. decathlon

Question10

In which city did a crane recently collapse into a mosque, tragically claiming the

lives of more than 100 people?

a. Rabat, Morocco b. Cairo, Egypt

c. Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Question11

Which singer has recorded the theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie

Spectre?

a. Sam Smith b. Ed Sheeran

c. Adele

Question12

In which European capital did this protest take place recently?

a. Berlin b. Paris c. Madrid

Question13

True or false, Apple has made their new iPad a lot smaller than the last model?

Question14

What was the name of the protected lion that was hunted and killed by an

American dentist recently, sparking international outrage?

a. Barney b. Cecil c. Simba

Question15

The United States Government has officially renamed the highest mountain in North America to 'Denali'. By what name

was it previously known?

a. Mt Rushmore b. Mt McKinley c. Mt Washington

Question16

Which country has this flag?

Question17

What sporting event began in Newcastle upon Tyne and attracted around 60,000

participants at the weekend?

a. The Northern Marathon b. Bridge to Bridge Run

c. Great North Run

Question18

What is the main language spoken in Mexico?

a. English b. Mexican c. Spanish

Question19

Why was a reporter for the Hungarian news channel N1TV, sacked from her job

last week?

a. she deliberately tripped a migrant over while he was fleeing police

b. she offered to 'adopt' the refugee family she was interviewing

c. she refused to film migrants trying to escape a checkpoint

Question20

This UK politician has been in the news a lot lately. What is his last name?

Answers

Answer1

Passengers had to use emergency slides to escape a fire on a British Airways jet last week. From which city was the plane attempting to take-off when the

fire occurred?

b. Las Vegas - 159 passengers and 13 crew made a dramatic escape after one of the London-bound plane's engines caught fire after an aborted take-off

Answer2

What type of natural disaster is affecting large areas of northern Japan?

b. flooding - Torrential rain caused by a severe tropical storm has affected a vast area northeast of Tokyo, stretching from Ibaraki prefecture, a short distance from the capital, right up to Miyagi prefecture, around 350km (217 miles) away.

Answer3

Which British sportswoman has had to defend herself against recent allegations of cheating?

b. Paula Radcliffe - The three-time London Marathon winner has had to defend herself after a parliamentary select committee "effectively implicated" her in the Sunday Times' allegations of blood doping in athletics.

Answer4

In which country are heart-warming scenes like this occurring?

a. Hungary b. Ireland c. Germany

c. Germany - Asylum seekers have streamed into Germany to cheers, gifts and "welcome" signs. Many are fleeing war in the Middle East and hope to take refuge in Germany, Europe's richest country, but the EU is divided over how to cope with the influx

Answer5

What did archaeologists recently discover while working near Stonehenge?

c.a buried 'superhenge' of ceremonial stones measuring 500 metres across - The discovery was made at Durrington Walls — a so-called "superhenge" located less than three kilometres from Stonehenge — thanks to high-tech sensors that detected the presence of large ceremonial stones under the ground.

Answer6

True or false, Serena Williams has just completed a Grand Slam by winning all four of the major tennis

tournaments this year?

False - Although she had won the 2015 Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon titles, she lost in the semi finals of the US Open to Italian player, Roberta Vinci.

Answer7

Which Commonwealth country is considering an official change of flag?

a. New Zealand - A national referendum on four alternative designs will be held later this year, with the winning design pitted against the current flag in a binding referendum in 2016.

Answer8

What is the last name of the man on the left?

Putin - The image shows Russian President, Vladimir Putin, taking a ride in a bathyscaphe with the Russian Navy.

Answer9

In which event did UK athlete Jessica Ennis-Hill recently win her second World Championship title?

b. heptathlon - She recently won the event in Beijing to add to her 2009 title from Berlin in the biannual championships. She missed the 2013 Worlds through injury and was second in 2011 in Daegu.

Answer10

In which city did a crane recently collapse into a mosque, tragically claiming the lives of more than

100 people?

c. Mecca, Saudi Arabia - The crane crashed into the Grand Mosque as it was full of worshippers, two weeks before the Hajj pilgrimage. King Salman says the results of an an investigation into why the crane collapsed in bad weather, killing at least 107 people, will be made public.

Answer11

Which singer has recorded the theme song for the upcoming James Bond movie Spectre?

a. Sam Smith - The track is called Writing's on the Wall and will be released on 25 September. Smith said: "I am so excited to be a part of this iconic British legacy and join an incredible line up of some of my biggest musical inspirations.”

Answer12

In which European capital did this protest take place recently?a. Berlin b. Paris c. Madrid

b. Paris - The French Government decided to grant farmers additional financial help after about 4,500 farmers staged a protest, utilizing 1,500 tractors to block the city's major arteries into the capital.

Answer13

True or false, Apple has made their new iPad a lot smaller than the last model?

False - The new larger screen model (12.9 inches) is aimed at countering the declining popularity of tablets. Research showed that business people found tablets too small to perform the functions they needed.

Answer14

What was the name of the protected lion that was hunted and killed by an American dentist recently,

sparking international outrage?

b. Cecil - A Minnesota dentist has become the target of worldwide outrage for hunting and killing Cecil, a protected lion in Zimbabwe. It has been alleged that the big cat was lured out of the national park where it lived and into the “kill zone”.

Answer15

The United States Government has officially renamed the highest mountain in North America to 'Denali'. By what name was it previously known?

b. Mt McKinley - It is an Athabascan name, used by generations of Native American's in Alaska, that means "the great one.". Denali is 6,190 m (20,310 feet) with the largest base-to-peak rise of any mountain situated entirely above sea level.

Answer16

Which country has this flag?

South Africa

Answer17

What sporting event began in Newcastle upon Tyne and attracted around 60,000 participants at the

weekend?

c. Great North Run - For the first year in 1981 it was advertised as a local fun run; nearly thirty years on the half-marathon has become the biggest in the UK, and one of the biggest running events in the world.

Answer18

What is the main language spoken in Mexico?

c. Spanish - With a population of 122 million, Mexico is the largest Spanish speaking country in the world

Answer19

Why was a reporter for the Hungarian news channel N1TV, sacked from her job last week?

a. she deliberately tripped a migrant over while he was fleeing police - Migrants were trying to escape police from a collection point in the village of Roszke near the Serbian border. Television footage shows the Hungarian camera woman using her leg to trip over a man carrying his son. The network said that the employee had shown "unacceptable behaviour".

Answer20

This UK politician has been in the news a lot lately. What is his last

name?

Corbyn - Jeremy Corbyn has promised to lead a Labour "fightback" after being elected the party's new leader by a landslide.