Weekly News Quiz
FirstNews
Issue 382
11th - 17th OCT 2013
In the know
Part A: Words
Part B: Pictures
A1) Who stars as Romeo in the new film version of
What news do these pictures tell us this week?
A2) How much food is wasted in Scotland every year?
B1
A4) Why did 12-year-old Bailie Kershaw win a Pride of
Britain Award?
A5) What was the final score in the Rugby Super League
Grand Final?
A6) Tourists and Venetians are standing on walkways in the
Italian city of Venice waiting for the ‘Acqua Alta’ but what is
it?
A7) American special troops tried to capture the leader
of the al-Shabab terrorist organisation which attacked the
Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. What is his name?
A8) Who does celebrity chef and businessman, Levi Roots,
Hampshire’s only Quidditch
team played their Quidditch
match this week, beating
Reading Rocs 120-10
Home News, page 5
B3
Jeb Corliss
charge a mobile phone at Southampton University?
B4
Canadian astronaut
and internet sensation
Commander Chris Hadfield
returned to Earth this week,
after spending five months
in space,
Headlines, page 3
B5
a dozen ducklings who got
trapped down a drain have
been rescued with the help
of a 14-year-old schoolgirl
Animals, page 8
Getty
A3) How many volts, simulating lightning, were used to
B2
Twitter
Shakespeare’s play about young love?
B6
Researchers at Google
have used images from
NASA satellites to make
some impressive time-lapse
videos of our changing
planet
Science, page 6
say is his Literacy Hero?
A9) Staff are celebrating the birth of the first tiger cub to be
born at London Zoo for 17 years but what is the name of the
new baby’s mother?
A10) What does the NCA, otherwise known as the ‘British
FBI’, stand for?
Part C: Place
Part D: Person
Part E: Object
Which country has just been hit by
Typhoon Fitow?
Who is this person and why is he in
the news this week?
What is this?
Cancun,
Mexico
?
Getty
the Great Rubber Ducky Race 2013,
News in Pictures, page 4
Part F: Statistics
What news do these numbers tell us this week?
F1) 9 libraries F2) 7 wickets F3) Six months
F4) 81 Gromit statues
F5) 270 tube stations in London F6) 12 shanty towns
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Weekly News Quiz
In the know
Part A: Words
FirstNews
Issue 382
11th - 17th OCT 2013
Part B: Pictures
A1) Who stars as Romeo in the new film version of
Shakespeare’s play about young love? Douglas Booth, ‘Wherefore What news do these pictures tell us this week?
art thou Romeo?’, The Big Interview, page 17
A2) How much food is wasted in Scotland every year? 566,000
tonnes, according to organisation, Zero Waste Scotland, News In
Numbers, Home News, page 5
B1
B2
Pakistani schoolgirl,
Malala
Yousafzai
(pictured
Hampshire’s
only Quidditch
charge a mobile phone at Southampton University? 200,000
with
David
Beckham,)
is in
team played their Quidditch
volts, ‘Charge your phone in a flash’, Science, page 9
the
running
for
the
Nobel
match this week, beating
A4) Why did 12-year-old Bailie Kershaw win a Pride of Britain Peace
Prize,Rocs
‘Malala
up for
Reading
120-10
Award? He saved his dad’s life. When his father had a heart attack,
top prize’
,
Headlines,
page
Home News, page 5 2
Bailie kept him alive by clearing his father’s airways and performing CPR,
A3) How many volts, simulating lightning, were used to
B3
Canadian astronaut
and internet sensation
A6) Tourists and Venetians are standing on walkways in the
Commander Chris Hadfield
Italian city of Venice waiting for the ‘Acqua Alta’ but what is it?
returned
Earth this
week,
Labour’stoTristram
Hunt
is
It is the Venetian word for their high tide – which floods into the city of
after
spending
five
months
the
new
Shadow
Education
Venice in Autumn and Winter, News In Pictures, page 4
space, page 2
A7) American special troops tried to capture the leader of the Secretary,inHeadlines,
Headlines, page 3
al-Shabab terrorist organisation which attacked the Westgate
shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. What is his name? Abdikadir
B5
Twitter
page 24
Mohamed, 7. Somalia, World News page 7
A8) Who does celebrity chef and businessman, Levi Roots,
The Luminos car, a
say is his Literacy Hero? His mum, who helped him to read and write, competitor from Stanford
Special report, page 6
University, USA, races on day
A9) Staff are celebrating the birth of the first tiger cub to be one of the World 2013 Solar
born at London Zoo for 17 years but what is the name of the
Challenge, News In Pictures,
new baby’s mother? Melati, ‘Paw-fect cub’, Animals, page 8
page 4
A10) What does the NCA, otherwise known as the ‘British FBI’,
stand for? The National Crime Agency, ‘The British FBI’, Headlines, page
2
Jeb Corliss
B4
Grand Final? Wigan beat Warrington 30-16, Sport In Numbers, Sport,
Japanese gymnast, Kenzo
Shirai,ducklings
making the
first
a dozen
who
got
ever quadruple
the
trapped
down atwist
draininhave
Artistic
Gymnastics
World
been
rescued
with the
help
Championships,
Sport In
of
a 14-year-old schoolgirl
Numbers,
Sport,
page
Animals,
page
8 24
Getty
‘The children who are the Pride of Britain’, Headlines, page 3
A5) What was the final score in the Rugby Super League
Jeb Corliss standing in the
gap in Mount Jianglang – he
has just glided down, ‘China,
World News, page 7
B6
ResearchersPalace
at Google
Buckingham
hosted
have
used
images
from
its first
official
football
NASA
to make
matchsatellites
to celebrate
the
some
impressive
time-lapse
Football
Association’s
150th
videos
of our
changing
birthday,
‘Buckingham
planetstadium!’,
Palace football
Science, page
Headlines,
page6 3
Part C: Place
Part D: Person
Part E: Object
Which country has just been hit by
Typhoon Fitow?
Who is this person and why is he in
the news this week?
What is this?
Cancun,
Mexico
?
the Great Rubber Ducky Race 2013,
News in Pictures, page 4
China, Headlines, page 3
Part F: Statistics
Gymnast, Kristian Thomas, who
has made world history by becoming
the first British man to get a World
Championships medal on the vault,
Sport, page 24
King Henry VIII’s famous ship, the
Mary Rose. It was recovered from the
bottom of the sea (where it had been
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can
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go
and
see
Chester Zoo that recently passed
a full
the restored health
Mary Rose
at
Portsmouth
check,
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Dockyard,
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page
History, Headlines, page 2
What news do these numbers tell us this week?
F1) 9 libraries – are set to close in Sunderland today (11 October) to help Sunderland City Council save £850,000, Front Page, page 1 F2) 7
wickets – was the winning margin for Afghanistan over Kenya to qualify, for the first time, for the Cricket World Cup, Sport In Numbers, page
24 F3) Six months – The length of time scientists believe the alpine swift spend in the air non-stop, Science, page 9 F4) 81 Gromit statues
– are being auctioned off to raise money for Bristol Children’s Hospital, Home News, page 5 F5) 270 tube stations in London – have been
included in a song by Jay Foreman, ‘Tube tunes’, Crazy But True, page 10 F2) 12 shanty towns – in Rio de Janeiro, have been taken over by
soldiers to try and drive the criminals out of these poor areas of the city before the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, 6.
Brazil, World News, page 7
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