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Quiz of the week's news

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Kelly, Noddy, 118 118 and Four Poofs and a Piano

It will be a festive fray for the Christmas number one this year - but which of above contenders has run into trouble with language on their single?
A: Kelly Osbourne (who will duet with dad Ozzy)
B: Noddy
C: 118 118 runners
D: Four Poofs and a Piano
"Desperate times, desperate measures." Said who?
A: Jane Juska, who at 66 advertised for sex in the New York Review of Books
B: Mark Henderson, who despite being a hostage in Colombia, joked that he had taken up smoking
C: Jade Goody, who took Major Ingram to task in Celebrity Wife Swap
Bernard is the namesake for Queenie's nursemaid in Blackadder, five of Alice and Hugo's children in The Vicar of Dibley, and a 10-year-old boy in Love Actually. But who is the Bernard who inspired screenwriter Richard Curtis?
A: Bernard Manning
B: Tory MP Bernard Jenkin
C: Curtis's boyhood St Bernard, Bernard
D: Hugh Bernard Grant
E: Bernard Cribbins
Who looks like "a 1960s record producer"?
A: Lord Saatchi, because of his heavy tortoiseshell glasses
B: Victoria Beckham and Nancy Dell'Olio, who have taken to wearing suits and trilbys
C: Pete Waterman, according to a snubbed Pop Idol contestant
Brits have had their say on the greatest invention of the past 40 years, and found the widget that gives tins of beer their head the greatest. But what about the rest? Rank these three, greatest technological advance first.
A: Solar-powered cars, mobiles, contact lenses
B: Contact lenses, solar-powered cars, mobiles
C: Mobile phones, contact lenses, solar powered cars
"I'm just happy that I invented a word that's in the dictionary." Said who?
A: Author Douglas Coupland, now his word "McJob" is in the dictionary
B: Beyonce Knowles, who wrote the song Bootylicious and now jokes that she hates being described thus
C: Tongue-tied deputy PM John Prescott, who called a journalist "a silly girl" and has ended up in a collection of insults
Who became "respectfully attired", thanks to a bit of technology?
A: Jonathan Ross, who needed to have a poppy digitally added to a TV appearance after an oversight
B: World Cup rugby players, approving of their new hi-tech skin-tight shirts because they don't look like typical rugby fans
C: Britney Spears, whose trousers were so low-slung at an MTV event that cameramen needed to use some careful cropping

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This week's highlights of the Lunchtime Bonus Question (in which we give you the answer and you tell us the question) include:

  • Frank of Scotland who on Monday thought "What's the international symbol of show-off smokers?" was the correct question to the answer "a cluster of small circles".

  • Kieron Boyle of Oxford who on Tuesday thought "In modern mythology, who were lured by sirens?" was the correct question to the answer "Police on jet skis".

  • M Essoone of Barcelona who on Wednesday thought "What do aristocrats put on the end of their drills?" was the correct question to the answer "A bit more classy".

They were all wrong, and they weren't alone. For more wrong questions see the Lunchtime Bonus Question from 1030 BST every weekday as part of the Magazine (www.bbc.co.uk/magazine), where you see the funky knife and fork. For today's round, click this link.




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