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Friday, 27 September, 2002, 09:57 GMT 10:57 UK
Quiz of the week's news
It's the end of the week, but there's no need to let your attention flag. Test yourself in BBC News Online's quiz.

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

70s movie icons Mark Hamil (Star Wars 1977), Olivia-Newton John (Grease 1978) and Christopher Reeve (Superman 1978) all celebrate birthdays this week. Put them in order, oldest first.
A: Skywalker, Sandy, Superman
B: Superman, Skywalker, Sandy
C: Sandy, Skywalker, Superman
"Nobody invites me anymore." Who says their social life is in tatters?
A: Imprisoned Tory peer Lord Archer
B: Former Labour minister Peter Mandelson
C: Bob Geldof's daughter Fifi Trixibelle, recently arrested for being drunk
Who was told in an official statement they were "no longer acceptable in our organisation"?
A: Miss Germany Katrin Wrobel, in trouble over her contractual obligation not to pose nude during her reign
B: Feared loyalist paramilitary leader Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair being expelled from the Ulster Defence Association
C: Miss Universe Oksana Fedorova losing her title for not devoting enough time to her universal duties
"The blood spurts like two glasses of red wine chucked three metres." Whose gory personal memory?
A: France's last executioner Fernand Meyssonnier talking about the work of Madame le Guillotine
B: Michigan man John Everett Barbara jailed for biting a neighbours ear off in a road rage incident
C: Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens, who now wants people to see him preserve a human corpse in plastic on a TV documentary
The phrase "go commando" has entered whose vocabulary?
A: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said special forces troops might be used to topple Saddam
B: The residents of Gornalwood, England (epicentre of Monday's earthquake), told to crawl "commando-style" under a table if another quake hits
C: The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, updated for the first time in a decade to include the term for not donning underwear
Who was wrongly predicted to die in 1975, thus spoiling some carefully prepared political calculations?
A: Once controversial US Senator Strom Thurmond, who only now aged 99 has given his final Senate speech before retiring
B: The Queen Mother, estimated to pass away aged 75 by the UK Treasury as it drew up a royal funding deal
C: According to Tony Blair's Iraq dossier, the young Saddam Hussein was expected to be assassinated by Baath Party rivals
"It is impossible to do two jobs at once." Who can't have a career and a title?
A: Dethroned Miss Universe Oksana Fedorova admitting she couldn’t reign universally and be a police captain
B: Prince Charles being told by Labour’s Fabian Society he can’t be a constitutional monarch and dabble in politics
C: Alan Greenspan told by experts on the US Constitution his new knighthood disqualifies him from being Federal Reserve boss

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