Quiz of the week's news

7 days 7 questions

It's the Magazine's 7 days 7 questions weekly quiz - a chance to find out how much news from the past week you've read, heard and watched... and how much has stayed lodged in the old grey matter.

1.) Multiple Choice Question

Spot the swatch. Which are the Dolce & Gabbana quilted trousers at the centre of an unseemly spat with Armani over who came up with the idea first?

1. Bohemian
2. Tweedy
3. Sky blue
4. Shiny brown

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And here are the strides in all their glory on the D&G catwalk in Milan. Nice trousers...Click NEXT to continue.

2.) Multiple Choice Question

The UK is officially in recession after the economy shrank by 1.5% in the last quarter of 2008. But in which post-war year was the biggest quarterly decline?

1. 1958
2. 1974
3. 1982
4. 1991

3.) Multiple Choice Question

Barack Obama was sworn in a 2nd time after a misplaced word in his first oath. Which word?

1. Solemnly, in the phrase "...do solemnly swear..."
2. Faithfully, in the phrase "... faithfully execute the office of president..."
3. Switched order of preserve and protect, in "...preserve, protect and defend the Constitution..."

4.) Multiple Choice Question

An ex-KGB man has bought London's Evening Standard for £1. In his spying days in London in the 80s, how did he use the paper?

1. Used articles to devise coded messages
2. Carried copy to identify himself to other agents
3. Scoured daily for titbits to send back to Moscow

5.) Multiple Choice Question

The Oscar nominations are in, with nods for Frank "Richard Nixon" Langella, Sean "Harvey Milk" Penn and Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which he ages backwards. Where does this character come from?

1. Hero in F Scott Fitzgerald short story
2. Follow-up to Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Loosely based on a Beatrix Potter book

6.) Missing Word Question

Brand addicted to * in new show

1. sex
2. Sachs
3. applause

7.) Multiple Choice Question

Salvaging some of the 1,000 tonnes of timber washed up near Ramsgate, Kent, after tipping off a Russian ship in heavy seas. Who owns it now?

1. Finders keepers
2. The original owners
3. Receiver of Wreck

Answers

1. D&G's trousers are picture four. One is a typical bed spread-style quilt; two a duvet dress from 2000, and four is Ugly Betty star America Ferrera's quilted overcoat... upside-down.
2. It's 1958 - when, in the second quarter, growth registered -2.6%. A year earlier, the British prime minister Harold Macmillan said: "most of our people have never had it so good".
3. It's the word "faithfully". As Chief Justice Roberts read out the oath for Mr Obama to repeat, he moved it to the end of the phrase. So instead of "... I will faithfully execute the office of president...", he said "I will execute the office of president of the United States faithfully".
4. Alexander Lebedev, now a billionaire, says his job in London was to look for information that may be of use. "I had to read every newspaper. I was there for that. I had to read the FT, the Guardian, Standard and the Daily Mail."
5. The eponymous hero comes from the pen of F Scott Fitzgerald.
6. It's "Sachs". Russell Brand has begun a stand-up tour, much of which is on the furore over his lewd phone calls to Andrew Sachs. Meanwhile, fellow prank-caller Jonathan Ross returns to the BBC on Friday after his three-month suspension.
7. It still belongs to the original owners, and council workers are busy salvaging it to prevent scavenging. Any members of the public who do retrieve sawn timber from the coastline are expected to report it to the Receiver of Wreck, who liaises with the owners.

Your Score

0 - 3 : Plank

4 - 6 : Lumbering

7 - 7 : Wood you believe it?

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