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THE CURRENT EVENTS QUIZ Week ending 25th September 2020
THE
CURRENT EVENTS
QUIZ
Week ending 25th September 2020
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Current Events Quiz:Question 1Q1) Which Caribbean country has announced its intention to remove Queen
Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic ?
Current Events Quiz:Question 2Q2) The discovery of the gas Phosphine in the atmosphere has led astronomers to
consider the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of which planet?
Current Events Quiz:Question 3Q3) Which iconic British chain of department stores have announced they will
not be paying a bonus to their staff for the first time since 1952 because of
losses caused by covid-19?
??????
Current Events Quiz:Question 4Q4) What did the Foreign Secretary's bodyguard leave on his seat when he left a
plane at Heathrow last week causing him to BE "removed from operational
duties"?
Current Events Quiz:Question 5Q5) Emmy-winning actress Tatiana Maslany has been cast as which character in
the upcoming Disney+ TV series, breathing new life into Stan Lee's 80s comic-
book stories?
Current Events Quiz:Question 6Q6) Which perfume company has apologised to John Boyega after replacing the
Star Wars actor in an aftershave advert for the Chinese market?
Current Events Quiz:Question 7Q7) A rare 1634 edition of the “The two Kinsmen”, the last play written by which
writer has been found in a Scottish Catholic college in Spain?
Current Events Quiz:Question 8Q8) After a 9 year legal battle which footballer has the European Court of Justice
agreed can register his name as a trademark?
Current Events Quiz:Question 9Q9) Two people have been confirmed dead and another is missing after a hurricane-
like storm swept across which Mediterranean country causing floods, bringing
down trees and power lines and triggering landslides?
Current Events Quiz:Question 10Q10) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the American history-making jurist, feminist icon and
national treasure, has died, aged 87, in what Court, the highest in the US legal
system, did she sit?
Current Events Quiz:
The Answers
Current Events Quiz:Question 1
Barbados
Q1) Which Caribbean country has announced its intention to remove Queen
Elizabeth as its head of state and become a republic ?
Current Events Quiz:Question 2
Venus
Q2) The discovery of the gas Phosphine in the atmosphere has led astronomers to
consider the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of which planet?
Current Events Quiz:Question 3Q3) Which iconic British chain of department stores have announced they will
not be paying a bonus to their staff for the first time since 1952 because of
losses caused by covid-19?
John Lewis
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Current Events Quiz:Question 4Q4) What did the Foreign Secretary's bodyguard leave on his seat when he left a
plane at Heathrow last week causing him to BE "removed from operational
duties"?
His gun (Glock 19 pistol in its holster )
Current Events Quiz:Question 5
She-hulk
Q5) Emmy-winning actress Tatiana Maslany has been cast as which character in
the upcoming Disney+ TV series, breathing new life into Stan Lee's 80s comic-
book stories?
Current Events Quiz:Question 6
Jo Malone
Q6) Which perfume company has apologised to John Boyega after replacing the
Star Wars actor in an aftershave advert for the Chinese market?
Current Events Quiz:Question 7
Shakespeare
Q7) A rare 1634 edition of the “The two Kinsmen”, the last play written by which
writer has been found in a Scottish Catholic college in Spain?
Current Events Quiz:Question 8
Lionel Messi
Q8) After a 9 year legal battle which footballer has the European Court of Justice
agreed can register his name as a trademark?
Current Events Quiz:Question 9
Greece
Q9) Two people have been confirmed dead and another is missing after a hurricane-
like storm swept across which Mediterranean country causing floods, bringing
down trees and power lines and triggering landslides?
Current Events Quiz:Question 10
US Supreme Court
Q10) Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the American history-making jurist, feminist icon and
national treasure, has died, aged 87, in what Court, the highest in the US legal
system, did she sit?
