7 days quiz

7 days quiz

It's the Magazine's 7 days, 7 questions quiz - an opportunity to prove to yourself and others that you are a news oracle. Failing that, you can always claim to have had better things to do during the past week than swot up on current affairs.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

After Worcester Woman and Mondeo Man, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg is wooing a new core of voters - hard workers on middle/low incomes. Named?

Early BirdsAlarm Clock BritainDaybreakersTwenty-four-seven

Info

ITV quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is fighting for its survival in the UK, after 13 years. Chris Tarrant was its most famous host, and the first of its five winners was Judith Keppel in November 2000.

2.) Multiple Choice Question

The question which earned her the £1m prize was this. Which king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?

Henry IHenry IIRichard IHenry V

3.) Multiple Choice Question

A new international airport has been named after James Bond thriller writer Ian Fleming. It's in which country with a Bond connection?

JamaicaBrazilThailand

4.) Multiple Choice Question

A book dubbed the sequel to The Catcher in the Rye has been banned in the US over copyright issues. What is the Holden Caulfield character doing now?

In a retirement homeBankingTeaching

5.) Missing Word Question

Birds 'died from * '

binge drinkingsexsmoking

6.) Multiple Choice Question

The citizens of south Sudan took part in a week-long vote on independence from the north. Which was the last new African country to be recognised by the UN?

Western SaharaSomalilandEritrea

7.) Multiple Choice Question

The royal wedding rumour mill was busy this week, but which of the following actually came to pass?

Free travel in LondonOfficial tea towelExtended pub opening times

Answers

It's Alarm Clock Britain. At one point the group was going to be called Early Birds. It was Henry II. The five winners do not include Charles Ingram, who was found guilty in 2