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Last Updated: Friday, 13 June, 2003, 13:31 GMT 14:31 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.

This quiz is here every week - or you can reach it by bookmarking the address www.bbc.co.uk/sevendaysquiz


Charlotte Church, Ludwig van Beethoven, Rod Stewart and Elton John were all named as...
A: Contenders in the search for a new informal anthem for the enlarging European Union
B: Subjects for upcoming biographical West End musicals
C: Famous classical composers (alongside Gucci and Jean-Paul Gaultier) by British teenagers in a musical survey to mark the Spitalfields Festival
The Spitalfields Festival survey did ask teenagers to name Beethoven’s disability. Put their replies in order, the most common first.
A: He cut his own ear off, he was deaf, he was blind, he used a wheelchair
B: He was deaf, he was blind, he used a wheelchair, he cut his own ear off
C: He was blind, he cut his own ear off, he used a wheelchair, he was deaf
Who turned to a diet of burgers, fries, milkshakes, peanut butter, pizzas and 20 doughnuts?
A: Singer Robbie Williams while on a tour of the US
B: Fast food junkie President Bill Clinton at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal – according to the new book by his wife Hillary
C: Renee Zellweger (size six) who has reportedly agreed to bulk up to reprise her movie role as Bridget Jones (size 14)
The price of what was estimated to be £1m per year?
A: The 160,000-year-old skulls excavated in Ethiopia and thought to be the oldest ever discovered (price tag £160bn each)
B: The round-the-clock police security (including two detectives, 18 CCTV operators and roving patrol cars) to guard Prince Harry at Eton, which he left this week
C: Blair Force One – the dedicated aircraft military chiefs would like Tony Blair to use for his trips abroad, instead of him hiring airliners
"They’re brown, they should be grey." Who had a query about colour?
A: Prince Philip telling bosses at Legoland they had used the wrong colour bricks for the horses outside the theme park’s miniature Buckingham Palace
B: Artist Mike Smith, who is trying to create portraits of dead people using paint made from their cremated remains
C: The Food and Drink Federation, which found that teenagers risked food poisoning by not cleaning under their finger nails
"We would have agonised - but I think we probably should have done it." Whose words of regret?
A: Madame Tussaud’s, which has made a Britney Spears waxwork with a heaving breast, but didn’t think to give its J-Lo replica a shimmying rear
B: The Iraqi boyband Unknown to No One – who model themselves on Linkin Park and Michael Bolton – it’s the title of their debut album
C: BBC boss Greg Dyke, who would have loved for his corporation to have made Big Brother
What did the House of Lords vote to ban "to prevent an awful evil being committed", despite government protests that such a ban would be "unworkable"?
A: Sex in public toilets
B: Soft core porn films involving fish
C: Kosher and Halal methods of slaughtering livestock




And here is the Seven Days, Seven Questions bonus question. (Entries are now closed.)

The rules are simple. We give you the answer, you write the question. Marks are deducted for predictability. Wrong questions will be added throughout the course of Friday.

The bonus answer is: "What the hell was I thinking?"

Wrong questions included:

Monica said "I was thinking 'What the hell?'"
Bill said...
Peter, UK

What did Alan Milburn say when he returned home to "spend more time with his family" ?
Cedric Brown, United Kingdom

The thailor of the worlth firtht ditholving thubmarine thaid...
Hamish, UK

What did Beethoven say when he cut his own ear off?
David Thompson, US

Renee Zellweger regreted accepting the role of Rik Waller in a forth coming bio-pic with what words?
Richard Davies, UK

What was Rodin's famous statue thinking ?
Dave, UK

"Soft core porn films involving fish?"
Michael Hall, UK

What did Jade Goody say after eating Carrots with Marmite and Ice Cream?
Ian Watson, UK

"A tenner on Jeminii to win the Eurovision Song contest....?"
Mark Grout, England

The funniest question I've EVER thought of is... err...
Andrew Harding, England

What did the compiler of the BBC Seven Days Seven Questions news quiz Bonus Question say after sifting through 5000 naff questions to the answer "What the hell was I thinking"?
Ian Watson, UK

What is the most common message left on the answer phone of the British Amnesia Society.
Joseph Haig, UK

All wrong. The correct question, identified by Andrew Kean, was what did Damien Hirst say he had thought to himself on looking at some of his works of art, having sobered up.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Seven Days Seven Questions and the caption competition will return next week.

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