Schadenfreude

Some questions...

Friday, November 28, 2008, 10:13 PM

Do you know what's happening in the world today? Well, here's a few questions to test your brain out.

1) An Italian right-wing political party has offered a financial reward to parents who give their newborn boys or girls what names?

A: Silvio or Veronica, the first names of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his wife

B: Umberto or Manuela, the first names of Northern League leader Umberto Bossi and his wife

C: Benito or Rachele, the first names of war-time dictator Mussolini and his wife

2)"What a lot of trouble I had over it." Said who?

A: Tony Blair, misquoted as saying he had seen footballer Jackie Milburn play - despite being four years old at the time

B: Santa, sacked for asking shoppers at London's Selfridges if they would like to sit on his lap

C: Newsreader Alycia Lane, after her co-anchor hacked into her e-mails and leaked gossip to the media

3)British scientists fear that the country is running out of what?

A: Mycologists

B: Mycobacterium

C: Mitochondria

4)Stocks are plummeting and shares are down. But what is going up this week?

A: Levels of computer spam

B: Sales of pre-cooked meat product Spam

C: Ticket prices for the musical Spamalot

5) Bad **** may damage your heart. What?

A: Karma

B: Bosses

C: Posture

6)Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, pardoned someone, or something, in the last seven days. Who or what?

A: A Thanksgiving turkey

B: An old age pensioner who had accrued $584 worth of library fines at Wasilla public library

C: A state official for refusing to sack her ex brother-in-law

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Ans!

1)The answer was C
A far-right Italian party is offering 1,500 euros ($1,900) to parents who name their children after the fascist dictator Mussolini or his wife. The small Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore (MS-FT) party denies its gesture is racist and says the names Benito and Rachele are merely "nice".
Read more: Cash to name babies for Mussolini

2)The answer was A
It's Tony Blair - Newcastle's Sunday Sun has admitted it misquoted the former British prime minister 11 years ago. Meanwhile, Selfridges sacked Santa after a grandmother complained he had asked her to sit on his lap. And on Tuesday, news anchor Larry Mendte was convicted of hacking into rival Alycia Lane's e-mails.
Read more: Blair football 'myth' cleared up

3) The answer was A
Britain is running out of mycologists - experts in fungi. There were 32 in the 1990s, but just eight now. Scientists say we should be worried as, without a British research base, other countries could stand to make lucrative fungi-based discoveries in everything from medicine to engineering.

Read more: Fears over fungi expert demise

4)The answer was A
Two weeks after the shutdown of web hosting firm McColo, which saw a two-thirds drop in spam worldwide, spam numbers are creeping up again. Industry experts disagree on the degree to which spam has returned, but most say that prior levels will soon be reached.

5)The answer was B
A Swedish team found a strong link between poor leadership and the risk of serious heart disease and heart attacks among more than 3,000 employed men. And the effect may be cumulative - the risk went up the longer an employee worked for the same company. The study is published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Read more: Bad bosses may damage your heart

6)The answer was A
The former Republican vice-presidential candidate was doing her governor's "duty", she said, in saving one lucky bird at a farm in Wasilla.
Read more: Palin pardon amid turkey butchery

Taken from http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7753298.stm?markResults=true&x=53&y=10 or the BBC.

Trust me, when i read the first question i gave up entirely if you got all correct means you either CHEATED or you................................................ NAH.