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Last Updated: Friday, 8 August, 2003, 07:35 GMT 08:35 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.

EXCITING NEWS for fans of Seven days, Seven questions! Throughout August, you can now run your own office quiz league, thanks to our handy print-off-and-pin-up league table! At the end of the month, we'll publish a roll of honour for the winner from each office taking part. (Full instructions are on the document; feedback to the.magazine@bbc.co.uk.)

Open the Quiz League page and print it off

Copying the BBC’s Great Britons poll, TV station ZDF wants viewers to vote for the Greatest German. Which of the following is NOT on the shortlist?


	A: Kaiser Wilhelm II, who led Germany to defeat in WWI


	B: Supermodel Claudia Schiffer


	C: Dr Klaus Maertens, inventor of the Doc Marten sole


	D: Mozart

Martin "West Wing" Sheen, Terry "Auntie Beeb" Wogan, Barbara "Queen Vic" Windsor and Neil "The Moon" Armstrong all celebrated birthdays this week. Put them in order, oldest first.


	A: Wogan, Armstrong, Sheen, Windsor


	B: Armstrong, Windsor, Wogan, Sheen


	C: Windsor, Armstrong, Sheen, Wogan

"People are subjected to horrible pictures which are corrupting the morals of our children." What was deemed so vile a ban was sought?


	A: Madonna’s first children’s book, The English Roses, set to be launched in Paris on 15 September


	B: Ads supporting Hustler publisher Larry Flynt’s campaign to be governor of California which use the slogan “a smut-peddler who cares”


	C: Big Brother Africa

Former world champion boxer Mike Tyson has squandered the $300m fortune he amassed from fighting and filed for bankruptcy. Which of the following was NOT one of his extravagant purchases?


	A: A cotton bed sheet from the five-star Beijing Hotel ($300)


	B: Two white Bengal tigers ($140,000)


	C: A 5-foot-high wooden sculpture of Mike Tyson in shorts and boxing gloves ($30,000)

"I started to look for little sort of family similarities, you know, and picked up the cleft in the chin." Who was said to have inherited the family features?


	A: Dylan Michael Douglas, the son of Michael Douglas and grandson of Kirk, who turned three this week


	B: Paul Watton, the 47-year-old military policeman reunited with his birth mother Pauline Prescott


	C: Prometea, the world’s first cloned horse – which is an exact copy of the mare which acted as its surrogate mother

The secrets of the movie screening room in the White House were revealed this week. Which US President was the only incumbent to ask for an X-rated film?


	A: Richard Nixon watched Deep Throat


	B: Jimmy Carter watched Midnight Cowboy


	C: Bill Clinton watched Blue Velvet

Who admitted: "It didn't work in the way that it should have."


	A: Prestige car marker Audi reacting to news that its £21,000 TT came bottom of a reliability league table


	B: The Metropolitan Police saying the first Taser stun gun used in the UK failed to disable its intended human target


	C: Network Rail explaining that their rails are pre-stretched so they won’t buckle in the hot weather, but that it’s been a bit too hot this week

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