7 days' quiz

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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

Scientists have discovered the secret to making the best-tasting cup of tea. But what did they say would destroy the "all-round sensory experience"?

Leaving the tea bag in for two minutesLetting the temperature drop to below 45CLeaving the tea for six minutes before drinking it

2.) Multiple Choice Question

Who this week changed their moniker on Twitter to MrsLRCooper?

Singer Lily AllenPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner's ex-fiance Crystal HarrisJoanne Fraill, a juror who was jailed for contacting a defendant via the internet

3.) Multiple Choice Question

What's believed to be the world's smallest dinosaur was unveiled this week. The fossilised vertebrae was found by amateur fossil hunter Dave Brockhurst, but where had he kept it for two years?

His car bootHis bedside drawerHis shed

4.) Missing Word Question

Dalai Lama * joke backfires

peacepizzaprotest

5.) Multiple Choice Question

When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - newlyweds William and Kate - tour Canada and the US soon, they will take which ONE of these aides?

StylistSpeechwriterHairdresser

6.) Multiple Choice Question

British ladybirds (pictured) have suffered serious decline, partly due to the increase of an alien species of the bug, a study has found. What is the world's most invasive ladybird species - of Asian origin - known as?

HieroglyphicHarlequinHippodamia

7.) Multiple Choice Question

The word "babes" is among nearly 2,000 new entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. What is the word a rare example of?

A gerundA double diminutiveA genitive

Answers

It's letting the temperature drop to less than 45C. Volunteers consumed 285 cups of tea in a laboratory at th