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Thursday, 24 October, 2002, 12:58 GMT 13:58 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.

In the BBC poll of 100 Great Britons, which of these Britons was judged the greatest?
A: James "I invented the steam engine" Watt
B: William "I emancipated the slaves" Wilberforce
C: Michael "I was in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" Crawford
"I was taking painkillers right from the start." Who reached for the pills?
A: Atomic Kitten singer Jenny Frost, who had her bottom cast in bronze for charity
B: Ballerina Darcey Bussell, who was sewn into a tight leather and aluminium outfit to promote a new luxury car
C: Airline passenger Barbara Hewson, who sustained a blood clot, torn muscles and sciatica after being crushed by an obese neighbour
"Our private lives have been exposed to the extreme limits of what is allowable." Who?
A: Film producer Steve Bing, suing the Mirror newspaper for criticising his denial he had fathered Liz Hurley's son
B: Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, admitting on TV he has a 14-year-old illegitimate daughter
C: One of the Iraqi brides co-opted into a mass wedding to celebrate Saddam Hussein's re-election
"I am immensely proud and honoured to be associated with both of them." Who?
A: Steve Bing, on Liz Hurley and their son Damian
B: Celebrity painter Rolf Harris, given a BBC TV series on art and a show at the National Gallery
C: Punk legend Johnny Rotten, on his new BBC Radio 2 show and being included in the BBC's Great Britons poll
Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, footballing legend Pele and French film siren Catherine Deneuve. Put the 60s icons in order, oldest first.
A: Pele, Wyman, Deneuve
B: Deneuve, Pele, Wyman
C: Wyman, Deneuve, Pele
"It is obviously a little more scary looking at it now." Who was rattled by the damage sustained during an incident?
A: Driver Lisa Landau, trapped for 34 hours in her car submerged in a peat bog
B: Lt Craig Wharrie, of the HMS Nottingham, as the stricken warship got a piggyback home from Australia
C: President Bush's cyber-security adviser after the worst-ever attack on the internet's main servers (which few users noticed at the time)
Who objected to an "overweight and apparently unskilled footballer"?
A: Nike, on a beer advert in which comedian Peter Kay shouts "Ave it" - too close to "Just do it", apparently
B: The aforementioned airline passenger crushed against an obese neighbour
C: Punk legend Johnny Rotten on David Beckham's placing higher than him on the BBC's Great Britons list


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