News quiz
1. Who was accused this week of exploiting the public through "outright quackery" with a range of detox medicine?
Madonna
Prince Charles
Amy Winehouse
2. Ali Bongo died a week ago. What was he?
Clown
Magician
Banker
3. What, according to the Vatican newspaper, has done most to liberate women in the 20th Century?
The contraceptive pill
Labour laws
The washing machine
4. President Obama has lifted the ban on federal funding for what scientific activity?
Stem cell research
Searching for life in space
Genetically modifying crops
5. Which cricketer has been fined for excessive appealing in the fifth test against the West Indies?
Monty Panesar
Stuart Broad
Kevin Pietersen
6. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni have been accused of "acting like Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette" on a luxury holiday abroad while ordinary French citizens were feeling the pinch at home. Where did they go?
New Zealand
Mexico
South Africa
7. What symbolic act did Status Quo guitarist Francis Rossi perform this week?
Sold his first guitar
Joined the Catholic church
Cut off his pony tail
8. What sort of infestation has the coastal Yorkshire village of Flamborough been suffering?
Rats
Toads
Bed bugs
9. Which actress returned to Broadway this week for the first time in 46 years?
Meryl Streep
Raquel Welch
Jane Fonda
10. Who admitted this week that his famous father "might have overdone it a bit?"
Max Mosley
Julian Lennon
Michael Douglas
11. No contest for which story has received most coverage this week. Newspapers have devoted acres of space to novelist Julie Myerson's book about her son's cannabis habit. What is it called?
Tough Love
The Lost Child
Fighting Back
12. An American man has become only the second ever to have survived -- what?
Falling into the Grand Canyon
An attack by more than one giant shark
Going over the Niagara Falls
