Quiz of the week's news

7 days 7 questions

It's the Magazine's 7 days 7 questions news quiz - a chance for you to test how much of the news you've read, watched and heard from the past week... and how much you remember.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

What does outer space smell like, according to a British scientist asked by Nasa to recreate the odour?

1. Burnt rubber
   
2. Bacon crisps
   
3. Fried steak
   
4. Dusty radiators
   

2.) Multiple Choice Question

Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is the first to quit while in the job since James Munro fell on his sword in 1890. The final straw for that man's resignation?

1. Failing to catch Jack the Ripper
   
2. Argument over police pensions
   
3. Corruption allegations
   

3.) Multiple Choice Question

Whose handwriting?

1. Sarah Palin's
   
2. Sir Ian Blair's
   
3. David Cameron's
   

4.) Missing Word Question

"I'm * . There's no reason to rush into it"

1. 23
   
2. filming
   
3. not pregnant
   

5.) Multiple Choice Question

The revised $700bn bail-out back before the US House of Representatives is 450 pages. How long was the version they rejected on Monday?

1. Three pages
   
2. 50 pages
   
3. 100 pages
   

6.) Multiple Choice Question

What's the significance of 12,978,189?

1. Number of digits in newly-discovered largest prime number
   
2. Annual interest payable by US government on its $700bn bail-out
   
3. Number of failed applicants in China's astronaut programme
   

7.) Multiple Choice Question

Which of the following revivals, all announced in the past seven days, was last seen in 1995?

1. Going for Gold
   
2. The Krypton Factor
   
3. Birds Eye's Arctic Roll dessert
   

Answers

1. It's fried steak, says Steven Pearce of Omega Ingredients near Ipswich. One astronaut has also likened it to welding fumes. Nasa wants the smell recreated to enhance its training programmes.
2. James Monro quit after just two years in the job. He came to notoriety for his fumbling of the Ripper investigation, but his resignation came after an argument over police pensions.
3. It's David Cameron's, adding the phrase "You can't admit that change is needed, because that would mean admitting you've got it wrong" into his speech on Wednesday. Sir Ian resigned from the Met Police on Thursday, the same day Sarah Palin met Democratic rival Joe Biden in their one and only debate.
4. She said: "I'm 23". Johansson tied the knot with fiance Ryan Reynolds at the weekend. They announced their engagement in May.
5. It was a three-page proposal from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The extra detail is largely made up of sweeteners of tax breaks for the pet projects of waverers.
6. It's the digits in the prime number. University of California mathematicians could be in line for a $100,000 prize (£54,000) for finding the number. Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Sunday after performing a space walk.
7. It's the Krypton Factor - which ran on ITV between 1977 and 1995. Going for Gold ran on the BBC between 1987 and 1996, and is being revived by Five. Arctic Rolls are making a comeback after being ditched in the late 90s.

Your Score

0 - 3 : You are the weakest link... goodbye

4 - 6 : Look what you could have won

7 - 7 : Mastermind

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