Quiz of the week's news

So much news and so little time - test your knowledge of the week's events in the weekly quiz.

If you don't do very well this week, try again next Friday - this quiz is here every week.

Who has launched a concerted effort to lose a surplus two and half million pounds?

	A: Porn baron Richard Desmond, explaining his generous donation to the Labour Party

	B: The English Football Association, explaining why the World Cup squad is staying at a £800-a-night Dubai hotel

	C: Marty Markowitz, the borough president of Brooklyn helping his 2.5 million constituents lose weight

Anne Robinson said Americans were dim after NBC dropped the Weakest Link. She claims she saw President Bush wave at who?

	A: The Queen

	B: A statue of Winston Churchill

	C: Stevie Wonder

"It is not natural to do this." Who obeyed orders, only to later express regrets?

	A: Dr Alan Rudolph, the US military scientist training bees to sniff out explosives

	B: F1 star Michael Schumacher, taking the chequered flag in Austria thanks to his team mate moving aside

	C: The Banbury magistrate who jailed mother Patricia Amos for not making her daughters go to school

"At least I didn't go down." Which celebrity was putting on a brave face?

	A: Dionne Warwick, arrested at a Miami airport for carrying suspected marijuana cigarettes

	B: Jamiroquai star Jay Kay, left bloodied after a fracas with a photographer

	C: Penthouse porn baron Bob Guccione, in court for publishing nude pics he thought were of Anna Kournikova

"This is a hell of a way to end a beautiful career!" Which, perhaps retiring, entertainment veteran disappointed his old admirers?

	A: Luciano Pavarotti, enraging Met opera boss Joseph Volpe by cancelling a performance at the last minute

	B: Bat-biting rocker Ozzy Osbourne, shocking Kerrang! magazine by agreeing to play a gig for the Queen

	C: Woody Allen, opening the Cannes film festival despite calls for American Jews to boycott "anti-Semitic" France

"We will be watching him like a hawk." Who was warned they will be kept on a tight leash?

	A: Teenager Barry de Lacy, who sent 2,500 SMS text messages in one month – costing his dad £216

	B: Paramilitary leader Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair, released from a Northern Ireland prison but under round-the-clock surveillance

	C: Self-mutilating performance artist Franko B, whose bloody UK show can only go ahead with medical supervision

"This is not about cultural differences, it is not about the west trying to impose its beliefs." What is the UK government diplomatically pleading the Japanese not to do?

	A: Welcome the England World Cup team to Tokyo airport by playing Ant and Dec’s "We’re on the Ball" song on the PA

	B: Ask restaurateurs to translate “nomihodai” on their World Cup menus into English – it means "all you can drink"

	C: Try to end the commercial ban on whaling at an upcoming international meeting

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