News Quiz - Week 43

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News Quiz

School year 2025-2026

Week 43

Which famous museum in Paris was robbed on Sunday around 9:30 a.m., when four people stole priceless jewels within seven minutes?

Question 1

A

Musée d’Orsay

B

Centre Pompidou

C

Louvre

D

Musée Rodin

Which company experienced an outage on Monday that caused widespread issues with a large number of websites and games?

Question 2

A

Amazon

B

Meta

C

MIcrosoft

D

Google

Why must the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, serve five years in prison?

Question 3

A

He was caught with an excessively high blood alcohol level

B

He was guilty of domestic violence

C

He took bribes

D

He accepted illegal campaign donations from Libya

Given all the scandals surrounding him, Britain’s Prince Andrew has decided to give up his royal titles.

Which title is he allowed to keep?

Question 4

A

Prince of the United Kingdom

B

Duke of York

C

Member of the Order of the Garter

D

Baron Killyleagh

Question 5

This week, rare footage emerged from El-Fasher, the last major city not yet under control of the paramilitary group RSF. In which country is this group fighting a bloody war against the national army?

A

Ethiopia

B

Sudan

C

Libya

D

Cameroon

The UK’s banking-technology cyber-incident involving Jaguar Land Rover has been estimated to cost the British economy about £___ billion, according to a cybersecurity body.

Question 6

A

£0.5 billion

B

£1.0 billion

C

£1.9 billion

D

£2.5 billion

The Met Office upgraded a weather warning for parts of Scotland as Storm ___ developed, expected to bring gusts of 70-80 mph across some regions.

Question 7

A

Cuthbert

B

Donald

C

Robert

D

Benjamin

Question 8

The Green Party of England and Wales has announced its membership has surged past ___ members under new leadership, marking the biggest increase in its history.

A

80,000

B

100,000

C

200,000

D

500,000

Question 9

Derbyshire police responded to calls of a crocodile sighted in the canal but the panic was over when it turned out it was:

A

Stuffed

B

An unusually large frog

C

Subdued by a hypnotist

D

A human prankster wearing a crocodile hat

1. A study revealed that one in 12 secondary school students in the UK are placed in isolation rooms at least once a week.

2. Hackers linked to North Korea have allegedly stolen billions of dollars through cryptocurrency breaches and by creating fake identities to get remote tech jobs at foreign companies, according to a recent report. 

3. A Russian court found a French cyclist guilty of illegally crossing their border with China but released him, as he was attempting to break a record for cycling across the Eurasian landmass. 

4. A woman played the clarinet during her own brain surgery. 

5. Thousands of people took to the streets to take part in the annual Zombie Walk in Mexico City.

12

North Korea

cyclist

cycling

clarinet

Zombie

20

3

Russia

Lichtenstein

rollerskater

rollerskating

bassoon

drums

Pokemon

Dog

Fill in the blanks!

Question 10

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