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News quiz, week ending May 6

Who is Craig Wright and what did he claim to have done?

What is the significance in U.S. politics of the numbers 1,237 and 2,383?

What soccer club won the English Premier League?

What country put its wild animals up for sale, saying it needed buyers to step in to save the beasts from a devastating drought?

Which six countries are the most popular tax havens, according to the United Nations?

What bank note is the European Union abandoning?

Who told investors not to worry, “My desk is at the end of the production line.”

Who is Ahmet Davutoglu and what did he announce?

Sadiq Khan won the mayoral election in London. What “first” does Khan’s victory represent?

Who posted a photo of himself eating a taco bowl for Cinco de Mayo with the message: “I love Hispanics!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answers

A tech entrepreneur from Australia who claimed to have invented the virtual currency known as bitcoin

The number of delegates needed to clinch the U.S. Republican and Democratic presidential nominations, respectively

Leicester City, which overcame odds of 5,000-to-1 to win the title

Zimbabwe

Netherlands, the U.S., U.K., Luxembourg, Switzerland and Ireland

The 500 euro bill

Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, who announced plans to produce 500,000 cars over the next two years

The prime minister of Turkey, who said he would step down following a power struggle with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Khan will become the city’s first Muslim mayor

Donald Trump