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Last Updated: Thursday, 31 July, 2003, 22:53 GMT 23:53 UK

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Quiz of the week's news

It's the end of the week, so it's time for BBC News Online's weekly news quiz.

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"I'm talentless as you can see. In fact, I'm so talentless, I should have your job." Whose own admission?


	A: John Prescott, reacting to backbench derision that he’s in charge while PM Tony Blair is on holiday


	B: Kylie, reacting to a teachers’ union which said "you see more of her bottom than you hear her voice".


	C: Comedy terrorist Aaron Barschak, warning journalists to avoid his Edinburgh Festival show


	D: Ex-S Club pop star Jon Lee – now in a West End musical - coming clean to the promoter that he hardly ever sang while in the band

"Did you know you don’t say ‘joint’ these days? You say ‘spliff’." This insight was gleaned by whom, where?


	A: Farmer Tony Martin, who was put in prison for shooting dead an intruder


	B: Tory MP Michael Portillo, who lived in a Merseyside terraced house and worked in a supermarket for a TV documentary


	C: UK Department of Health researchers who asked 10,000 school children about their drug use

"Call and talk to her over the phone. Maybe she would cry a bit and you would change your mind." Whose marital advice?


	A: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad saying that although men in his country can now divorce their wives by text message, it’s not nice


	B: Best man Michael Jackson telling David Gest he might want to repair the split with Liza Minnelli


	C: The father of a Saudi man who divorced his wife during a fracas over the taking of their wedding photos

What, when opened, contained a moist substance smelling "cheesy" and "sulphurous"?


	A: A suitcase found near the body of Uday Hussein


	B: A 2,000-year-old pot recently dug up from a Roman temple under London


	C: The wing cases of London ladybirds – 90% of which have been struck down by a sexually transmitted disease less common in the provinces

When asked where he wanted to go this week, who replied "surprise me"?


	A: Tony Blair, asked by wife Cherie about a holiday (he’s staying at Cliff Richard’s villa)


	B: Tony Martin, asked by tabloid reporters picking him up after his release from prison


	C: Bob Hope, asked by his wife of 63 years where he wanted to be buried

"There may be an informal celebration afterwards, with light refreshments provided." Planning for what?


	A: A new ceremony for immigrants adopting British citizenship


	B: Idi Amin’s funeral, which is being arranged, despite confusion over whether Uganda’s ex-dictator is at death’s door


	C: Mick Jagger’s 60th birthday visit to the British embassy in Prague during the Rolling Stones tour

Mick Jagger is 60. Which of the following – also celebrating birthdays this week – is YOUNGER than the Rolling Stone?


	A: Sir Clive Sinclair


	B: Ian McCaskill


	C: The Beano


	D: Helen Mirren

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