Quiz of the week's news

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It's the Magazine's 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much news from the past week you've read, heard and watched... and how much has stayed lodged in the old grey matter.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

Which was Michael Jackson's biggest selling song in the UK?

1. I Want You Back
   
2. One Day in Your Life
   
3. Billie Jean
   
4. Earth Song
   

2.) Multiple Choice Question

John Bercow beat seven others to be elected the new Speaker of the House of Commons. But how is his surname pronounced?

1. Ber-co (as in slow)
   
2. Ber-cow (as in how)
   
3. Ber-cov (as in of)
   

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The summer solstice drew a record 35,000 people to Stonehenge in Wiltshire. Here's a picture of the stones at dawn. Click NEXT for the question...

3.) Multiple Choice Question

But what did the weather look like as the sun rose on the morning of Sunday 21 June?

1. Bright sunshine
   
2. Scattering of cloud
   
3. Moody blue
   

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And here's this year's dawn scene in all its gloomy glory.

4.) Multiple Choice Question

For younger readers, this curious-looking object is called camera film. In fact, it's the revolutionary Kodachrome by Kodak, a film so legendary it has had what named after it?

1. A tall mountain
   
2. A wide river
   
3. A big park
   
4. A deep lake
   

5.) Missing Word Question

Calf from ' * breed' born in UK

1. Aztec
   
2. Nazi
   
3. alien
   

6.) Multiple Choice Question

Furniture retailer Habitat came unstuck after it used keywords from the news to raise its profile among users of the social networking site Twitter. Which of the following did it NOT use?

1. Mousavi
   
2. Gordonbrown
   
3. Iranelection
   
4. iphone
   

7.) Multiple Choice Question

Tennis commentators like to refer to Wimbledon, where the annual tennis championships are under way, by its postcode: SW19. By the same logic, which sporting venue would be known as HA9?

1. Wembley
   
2. Royal Lytham and St Annes
   
3. The Crucible
   

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Now, before you get your results, the Magazine has pleasure in announcing the Weekly Bonus Question. Each Friday we will give an answer and ask you to suggest what the question might have been. This week's answer is "POPPY PADDOCKS". Make your suggestions using the link below the quiz. Marks are deducted for predictability.

Answers

1. It's Earth Song, according to the Official Charts Company. Second is One Day In Your Life; third Billie Jean; fourth You Are Not Alone and fifth Black Or White.
2. It's Ber-cow as in how. John Bercow beat fellow Conservative MP Sir George Young in the final run-off.
3. It's number 3. Despite a promising forecast, the sun was unable to break through and the ceremony was shrouded in grey cloud. The sunny picture was from the 2004 solstice and the other from the 2001 solstice.
4. It's a big park - Kodachrome Basin State Park, in Utah, US, which is 2,240 acres. Kodak said this week it will stop making the film because demand has plummeted in the face of digital photography.
5. It's Nazi. The Heck calf was born in Devon as part of a conservation project. The herd is descended from cattle specifically bred by Nazi scientists between the world wars.
6. It's Gordonbrown. The firm apologised for the use of the "hashtags" and said it had been the work of an "over-enthusiastic intern".
7. It's Wembley - England's national football stadium. For postcode anoraks, the Crucible is S1 and Royal Lytham and St Annes is FY8.

Your Score

0 - 3 : RU3 1SH

4 - 6 : NO2 3AD

7 - 7 : XC1 1NT

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Fans of the 7 days 7 questions quiz may like to know there is now a short, web-only version of Have I Got News For You, hosted by Alexander Armstrong, on the BBC Comedy page .