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Magazine Monitor Home World UK England N. Ireland Scotland Wales Business Politics Health Education Sci/Environment Technology Entertainment & Arts 27 June 2014Last updated at 00:46 Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Quiz of the week's news 7 days 7 questions The Magazine's weekly news quiz Continue reading the main story/*div.story-body div#quiz_container{width:448px;border:1px solid;padding-left:16px;}*/Info
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
Tennis fans heading to Wimbledon were this week warned not to bring their own...
StrawberriesThermos flasks
Wine bottles
2.) Multiple Choice Question
The annual World's Ugliest Dog competition was held this week in Petaluma, California. Who was the winner?
Sweet Pea RamboQuasi Modo
Yoda
Peanut
3.) Multiple Choice Question
The clock on the building that houses the Bolivian congress has undergone a revamp. Which unusual design feature does it have?
Has only 10 hoursGoes backwards
Big and little hands switched around
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Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise.Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca called it the "clock of the south".He said it showed Bolivians could question established norms.
4.) Multiple Choice Question
A Chinese Communist Party official was reportedly sacked for accepting what?
A piggyback rideGoogle Glass frames
Tickets to the Glastonbury festival
5.) Multiple Choice Question
To help detect marijuana farms, police in 17 forces across England and Wales handed out cannabis-scented what?
Air freshenerPerfume
Scratch and sniff cards
6.) Multiple Choice Question
Analysis of the oldest reported trace of human faeces has added weight to the view that Neanderthals ate what?
BreadRefined sugar
Vegetables
7.) Missing Word Question
Vampire bats lose * taste
bittersalty
sweet
Answers
It was Thermos flasks. The Independent newspaper reported that the ban on the containers, first brought in last year, was now being "rigorously enforced" for "security reasons".It was Peanut, suspected to be a cross between a chihuahua and a shih tzu, who won the $1,500 (?880) first prize.It goes backwards.It was a piggyback ride. The official, who was visiting a flood-hit village, accepted it to avoid getting his shoes wet, according to reports. But local authorities thought the "inappropriate act" would "tarnish the image of party officials", state news agencies said.It was scratch and sniff cards. Officers hope informing the public about what the plants smell like means they can alert police to illicit farms. But they insist the cards do not contain any active elements of the plant.Found at a dig in Spain, the ancient excrement showed chemical traces of both meat and plant digestion. An earlier view of these early humans as purely meat-eating has already been partially discredited by plant remains found in their caves and teeth.Vampire bats' strict blood diet has made them lose much of their ability to taste bitter flavours, a study has found.Your Score
0 - 3 : Bat out of hell
4 - 6 : Playing a straight bat
7 - 7 : Not batting an eyelid
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