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(3360) 23 April 2010   Difficult

 
 
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1. The maker of which product is demanding that the BNP stop using the product's image in election ads?
 
Bisto
Marmite
Typhoo
Yorkie

Marmite's owner, Unilever NV, said it did not authorise the use of the image which appears without explanation in the upper left corner of the online broadcast
 
 
2. The MoD said yesterday that training flights in what aircraft have been suspended after volcanic ash was found in a jet's engine?
 
Harrier
Hawk
Tornado
Typhoon

Military fighter jets are more susceptible than regular aircraft because their engines operate at higher temperatures due to more extreme performance requirements
 
 
3. On this day in which year did Coca-Cola change its formula and release New Coke?
 
1979
1981
1983
1985

The response was overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula was back on the market in less than three months
 
 
4. Which Turkish town boasts of being the very spot where Saint George slew the dragon?
 
Aksalur
Goreme
Karakaya
Urgup

Urgup has invited English towns with connections to the patron saint to apply for twinning
 
 
5. Which football player was knocked unconscious during a match on Wednesday night?
 
Emmanuel Adebayor
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Papa Bouba Diop
Yuri Zhirkov
 
 
6. Which annual TV programme will have a 1910 version in addition to the 2010 show?
 
Children in Need
Last Night of the Proms
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Trooping the Colour
 
 
7. What was the character name of the Six Million Dollar Man?
 
Bruce Banner
Colt Seavers
Mark Harris
Steve Austin

Lee Majors, who played Steve, is 71 today
 
 
8. Two nurses were caught doing what at a scandal-hit hospital just one month after it was criticised for appalling standards of care?
 
Having a food fight
Moonlighting as strip-o-grams
Playing poker
Selling hospital supplies
 
 
9. What colour double-decker bus formed part of Malcolm McLaren's funeral cortege?
 
Black
Green
Pink
White

The destination board on the bus was 'nowhere', just like the one on the sleeve for The Sex Pistols' 'Pretty Vacant'
 
 
10. Which two airlines are being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading over price-fixing allegations?
 
Lufthansa and Cathay Pacific
Lufthansa and Qantas
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways
Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific

It is alleged that the two companies co-operated over pricing strategies on their London to Hong Kong routes
 
 
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