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Warrior Weekly Quiz wk13

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

True or false, the Duchess of Sussex recently won a legal judgement against the Mail on Sunday?

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Which of these is a new rule imposed by the Taliban government in Afghanistan?

a)

Nobody is allowed to play cricket on Sunday

b)

Men are not allowed to wear sunglasses

c)

Women are not allowed to appear in television dramas

3.

What is the purpose of an ambitious NASA mission that launched recently?

a)

They are trying to change the path of an asteroid

b)

They are trying to take a rock sample from a comet

c)

They are trying to send a satellite into a black hole

4.

On what island did a dramatic volcanic eruption occur at the weekend?

a)

Honshu, Japan

b)

Java, Indonesia

c)

North Island, New Zealand

5.

Sadly, Sir Frank Williams passed away last week. In which sport was he a famous top level manager?

a)

Horse Racing

b)

Formula 1

c)

Premier League Football

6.

What disrupted train services in Hampshire at the weekend?

a)

A World War II bomb

b)

A family of ducks

c)

A bag of rubbish

7.

Which European country did England's women's football team beat 20 - nil recently?

a)

Latvia

b)

Lithuania

c)

Slovenia

8.

The Turner Prize was awarded to an Northern Irish entry this year. What is the Turner Prize awarded for?

a)

music

b)

art

c)

writing

9.

Which Caribbean country left the British Commonwealth and became a republic in an official ceremony last week?

a)

Jamaica

b)

Bermuda

c)

Barbados

10.

Some Inuit people who live in Greenland are seeking compensation from the government that removed them from their families in the 1950s. Which country owns and runs Greenland?

a)

Denmark

b)

Norway

c)

Canada

11.

Why has the UK government been fined £500,000 for issues around the annual New Years honours list?

a)

Awarding honours to people that have paid to get them

b)

Lacking cultural diversity when awarding honours

c)

Sharing the postal addresses of recipients online

12.

Which footballer has just won the Ballon d'Or for a record seventh time, but insisted he didn't deserve it?

a)

Cristiano Ronaldo

b)

Neymar

c)

Lionel Messi

13.

Jack Dorsey just stepped down as the head of which tech company?

a)

Microsoft

b)

Apple

c)

Twitter

14.

What is the capital and largest city of Mexico?

(a)  

15.

A 13-year-old from Suffolk made a major discovery of Bronze Age axes on only her third outing with her metal detector. When did the Bronze Age occur?

a)

Before the Stone Age

b)

Before the Iron Age

c)

After the Iron Age

16.



(a)  

17.



(a)  

18.

a)

Croatia

b)

Spain

c)

Czech Republic

19.



(a)  

20.

a)

United States

b)

France

c)

Norway