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Kate Moss was there. So too was Micha Barton, Cat Deeley and Victoria Beckham. It was the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala in New York, and there were some frightful frocks on show. Who on earth wore this? Click NEXT to answer.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

Who was in THAT dress? Was it...

1. Celine Dion (of back-to-front tuxedo fame)
   
2. Anna Wintour (Vogue editor, shades indoors)
   
3. Bjork (fond of animal-shaped dresses)
   
4. Sarah Jessica Parker (where to start?)
   

2.) Multiple Choice Question

"That's a test for the Conservative Party as a whole," Gordon Brown told the BBC after his party's drubbing in last Thursday's local elections. The question?

1. Has a Tory government become more likely now?
   
2. Does David Cameron remind you of Tony Blair?
   
3. What do you make of Boris Johnson?
   

3.) Missing Word Question

Third admit to * at desk

1. lunch
   
2. napping
   
3. hangover
   

4.) Multiple Choice Question

Cannabis is to be reclassified after concerns about its impact on mental health. A report said: "to prevent one case of schizophrenia in men aged 20 to 24 about ____ men would have to be prevented from ever smoking cannabis". How many?

1. 100
   
2. 500
   
3. 1,000
   
4. 5,000
   

5.) Multiple Choice Question

Which act that played at Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday is also lined up for his 90th in Hyde Park in June?

1. Simple Minds
   
2. Annie Lennox
   
3. U2
   

6.) Multiple Choice Question

Who promised fans it's "full speed on to the White House"?

1. George Bush to John McCain, secure as the Republican contender for the president's job
   
2. Hillary Clinton, after only just winning yet another crucial primary in Indiana
   
3. Barack Obama, after winning yet another crucial primary in North Carolina
   

7.) Multiple Choice Question

And finally, the weird animal question. Scientists have unpicked the DNA of the duck-billed platypus - Australia's oddest animal - and found that its genes are...

1. mammal
   
2. bird
   
3. mammal and bird
   
4. mammal, bird and reptile
   

Answers

1. It's Anna Wintour, the fearsome Vogue editor immortalised in The Devil Wears Prada. But the nautilus-bedecked dress worn to Monday's gala was not Prada but Chanel by Lagerfeld.
2. This was Mr Brown's answer when Andrew Marr asked: "What do you make of Boris Johnson?" The Tory MP and occasional Have I Got News For You host officially became London's mayor on Sunday.
3. It's "hangover" - one in three employees have been to work with a hangover and more than one in 10 has been drunk at their desk, says a survey for Norwich Union Healthcare released on Tuesday.
4. It's 5,000 prevented from ever using cannabis to prevent one case of schizophrenia in young men.
5. It's Simple Minds. Annie Lennox only performed in 1988 as part of Eurythmics. U2 did not play at the original Wembley concert and are yet to confirm for this event.
6. It's Hillary. But as the results became clear on Wednesday, commentators began predicting that she must surely be on the verge of pulling out of the race.
7. It's a unique mix of mammal, bird and reptile. Mammal as it suckles its young on milk, bird as its 10 sex chromosomes are similar to its winged cousins, and reptile as it has genes which support egg laying and the males have venomous spurs on their hind legs.

Your Score

0 - 3 : Sink

4 - 6 : Swim

7 - 7 : Swim, walk, dive... you name it

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