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 real Lapland:

1. Blizzard
2. Sprinkling
3. Huskie
4. Reindeer

2.) Multiple Choice Question

"If ever there was a case of 'don't shoot the messenger', this is surely it." Said who?

1. Lawyer for Christopher Galley who leaked documents to Damian Green
2. Acting Met Police chief Paul Stephenson whose officers raided Green's office
3. House of Commons Speaker after revealing police did not have search warrant to raid the office

3.) Multiple Choice Question

Doom and gloom be gone - a leading colour specialist has predicted the vibrant hue, mimosa, will be the colour of 2009. But which is it?

1. Purplish
2. Orangey
3. Eco
4. Mellow yellow

Info

Here's a swatch of mimosa supplied by Pantone. The name is derived from the flowers on some mimosa trees. In general, Pantone expects the public to embrace many tones ofoptimistic yellow.

4.) Multiple Choice Question

A survey listed 408 locations in the UK, ranked according to how easily they would survive the recession. Which of these places - illustrated with photos only loosely related to them - will fare best?

1. City of London
2. Isle of Dogs
3. Chester
4. Corby

5.) Multiple Choice Question

On Monday, the Times newspaper switched from using the colonial name Bombay to Mumbai - considerably later than most media outlets. From which language does Bombay originate?

1. English
2. Portuguese
3. Hindi

6.) Missing Word Question

Britney more popular than *

1. Leona
2. Obama
3. financial meltdown

Info

World Wrestling Entertainment. Moving swiftly on...

7.) Multiple Choice Question

They've all been celebrating landmark birthdays this week. Which is the oldest?

1. Ozzy Osbourne
2. British motorways
3. Computer mouse

Answers

1. It's picture four - the reindeer. The others are of Lapland New Forest, a theme park on the Hampshire-Dorset border, which closed this week after visitors paying up to £30 each, labelled it a "scam" and "hell".
2. It was the lawyer for Christopher Galley - Neil O'May. The Speaker, Michael Martin, revealed an aide had allowed the raid - by signing a consent form without consulting him. Paul Stephenson said the search had been "consensual".
3. It's colour 4, the yellowy one. Colour specialist Pantone made the prediction. The other three, all Pantone shades, are Chalk Violet (purplish), Flame (orangey) and Opaline Green (self evident).
4. It's Corby in Northamptonshire. As home to Canary Wharf, London's Isle of Dogs is expected to be hit hard.
5. It's Portuguese. The city was called Bombaim by Portuguese colonisers. The British anglicised it to Bombay.
6. It's Obama. Britney Spears was the most common search term entered into Yahoo.com in 2008. Obama was third. And second was...
7. It's Ozzy, who was 60 on Wednesday. Britain's first motorway was opened 50 years ago and the computer mouse was invented 40 years ago by Doug Engelbart and his team at the Stanford Research Institute in California.

Your Score

0 - 3 : Dormouse

4 - 6 : Mighty mouse

7 - 7 : Micely does it

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