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Weekly Quiz. 06/05/11. Question. 1. What is the new non-emergency phone number for calling the police?. Question. 2. What is the name of the Scottish First Minister who has been pushing for a referendum on Scotland’s independence?. Question. 3.

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  1. Weekly Quiz 06/05/11

  2. Question 1 What is the new non-emergency phone number for calling the police?

  3. Question 2 What is the name of the Scottish First Minister who has been pushing for a referendum on Scotland’s independence?

  4. Question 3 When was Scotland last an independent nation? • a. 1707 • b. 1827 • c. 1917

  5. 4 What country was this photo taken in?

  6. Question 5 Why did three Australians protesting against whaling get in trouble last week? • a. they crashed their boat into a Japanese whaling ship • b. they hacked into the navigation system of a whaling ship • c. they boarded a whaling ship without permission

  7. Question 6 Which of the following education policies has the government not announced in the last week? • a. that the current ICT curriculum will be dropped • b. funding for a sports club at every secondary school in England • c. free after-school tutoring vouchers for every student in the UK

  8. Question 7 What was the name of the cruise ship that ran aground near an island in the Mediterranean Sea? • a. Costa Concordia • b. Casa del Sol • c. Monte Casino

  9. 8 What is this lady’s name or official title?

  10. Question 9 The University of Central Lancashire has announced it will open a campus in which unusual location? • a. New York • b. Thailand • c. London

  11. Question 10 Scientists have discovered the world’s smallest vertebrate (animal with an internal skeleton) in Papua New Guinea. What is type of animal is it? • a. a frog • b. an eel • c. a mouse

  12. Question 11 Significant price reductions have been announced for what basic commodity? • a. milk • b. gas • c. bread

  13. 12 This photo shows ongoing unrest in which country? a. Egypt b. South Africa c. Nigeria

  14. Question 13 What Italian club is footballer Carlos Tevez now being linked to? • a. Juventus • b. Inter Milan • c. Roma

  15. Question 14 What program has been criticised for a recent episode filmed in India? • a. Trinny & Susanna • b. Top Gear • c. Gordon’s Great Escape

  16. Question 15 Some UK battery farms are in trouble for not following new EU rules. What type of animals are usually kept on battery farms? • a. pigs • b. cows • c. chickens

  17. 16 What are these people looking at? a. a meteorite b. a piece of space junk c. a rally car

  18. Question 17 Why did an Australian tourist in Zambia make the news last week? • a. she saved a zebra from being attacked by lions • b. she was the first woman to climb Mt Kilimanjaro • c. the cord snapped when she was doing a bungy jump

  19. Question 18 What did thieves in Manchester do recently to steal money from an ATM machine? • a. pretend to be repairing it • b. crash into it with a fully-loaded truck • c. dig a 30m tunnel

  20. Question 19 President Obama is trying to get support for their government to borrow a further 1.2 trillion dollars. How do you write 1.2 trillion as a number?

  21. 20 What country has this flag?

  22. 20 What country has this flag?

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