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Question 1
What is the river that has broken its banks all over Pakistan, due to the heaviest monsoon rains in 80 years?
Answer
The Indus
The floods have affected vast areas of Pakistan / At least 14 million people have been affected / The UN said Pakistan will need billions of dollars in aid to recover
Question 2
Who admitted she accepted a gift that she thought were "three dirty looking pebbles"?
Answer
Naomi Campbell
The uncut diamonds were a gift from alleged war criminal and ex President dictator of Liberia / The revelatons have come out at Taylors war crimes trial where it is claimed he used conflict diamonds to fund a civil war / Campbell said she didn't know who the gift was from
Question 3
On live TV what did minister David Willets say may be taken away, before having to do an immediate U turn when David Cameron rejected the idea?
Answer
Free milk for children
The cutting of free milk for children under five was a money saving idea, but the plans went sour when David Cameron stopped the idea as he didn't want to get a nick name like "Thatcher the milk snatcher" after she took away free milk for 7 - 11 year olds
Question 4
What did 6,166 people dress as in a record breaking gathering in the seaside town of Hastings?
Answer
Pirates
They have smashed the world record for having the largest number of pirates in the same place (Previously 1,800)
Question 5
Who resigned as manager of Aston Villa?
Answer
Martin O'Neill
It appears the impending sale of James Milner and Ashley Young heightened tensions between O'Neill and American Owner Randy Lerner, to such a point O'Neill felt he had to leave