The News Quiz

Saturday 16 January 1999 00:02 GMT
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1. Who was cleared by DNA-testing of fathering a 13-year-old boy?

a) Robin Cook

b) Bill Clinton

c) Alan Clark

2. Who are Nita, Toso, Ton and Tis?

3. Who announced his early retirement at the age of 49?

a) Michael Jordan

b) Robin Cook

c) Det Inspector Ben Bullock

4. Who said "I'm free from slavery. But it looks as if I shall be eating soup in a basket tonight"?

5. Which recently deposed member of the Labour Party will soon be co- hosting a political programme on

Radio 5 Live?

a) Geoffrey Robinson

b) Peter Mandelson

c) Charlie Whelan

6. Which much-loved British writer has described Rupert Murdoch as a "bully" who "should be stood up to publicly..."?

7. Who is worried about bodily contact with fruit and vegetables?

8. Who described her husband as "teetering on the brink of total mental and physical collapse" in the late Eighties?

a) Hillary Clinton

b) Margaret Cook

c) Gaynor Cook

9. What do the following have in common: Jeremy Clarkson, Maggi Koumi, Kirsty Wark, David Yelland and Will Self?

10. Which public figure paid a night-time visit to a London hospital?

a) Sophie Rhys-Jones

b) Tony Blair

c) Robin Cook

d) Charlie Whelan

11. A woman described the announcement of her son's 18-year-old love child as "very happy news". Whose mother is she?

a) Peter Mandelson's

b) Robin Cook's

c) Jonathan Aitken's

12. It has been a pretty bad week for all of the following, but why?

a) Chris Evans

b) Edward Heath

c) Jemima Khan

d) Mick Jagger

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