QUIZ OF THE WEEK
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1. Which country was President Clinton in when he heard the news of the collapse of Paula Jones's case against him?
2. How did John finish ahead of David and Michael, while Margaret beat Mary and Susan?
3. In what way did the cost of success or failure rise from pounds 31 to pounds 32.75 last week?
4. And what went for pounds 947,500 with strings attached?
5. Where did the Sheriff come out of the Starlight?
6. Which Briton was reported to have turned down a job that would have earned him pounds 33,333 an hour - twice as much as a supermodel?
7. Dastardly row? Go cheer! Slip in confusion led to man's victor over computers in puzzling composition (5,9,9). Explain.
8. How did a Couch leave the Board on the canvas?
9. What is the title of Mazarine Pingeot's first novel, published last week, and who is she anyway?
10. Why did Hon-ming Chen offer to be stoned to death, then go to Michigan?
ANSWERS TO QUIZ OF THE WEEK
Picture: It's Czech for "to work". 1. Senegal. 2.Those are the most common names in Britain, according to a survey by the Office of National Statistics. 3. The cost of a driving test went up. 4. A Stradivarius violin went for that record price at Christie's. 5. Richard Stilgoe, librettist of Starlight Express, has become the Sheriff of Surrey. 6. John Major, who was reported to have turned down pounds 100,000 for three hours' work making an advertisement. 7. The Daily Telegraph dropped plans to computerise its crossword setting; "Dastardly row go cheer slip" is an anagram of "Daily Telegraph Crossword". 8. Jane Couch, the world welterweight women's boxing champion, won her case for sexual discrimination against the British Boxing Board of Control. 9. First Novel (Premier Roman); she is the late President Mitterrand's illegitimate daughter. 10. He made the offer when God did not appear in Dallas as he had predicted to the "Star Way" sect of which he is leader. He and his followers have now gone to Michigan where they believe God will pick them up in flying saucers.
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