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How closely were you paying attention?
10.45pm, 10 Apr 2015
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BEEN PAYING ATTENTION this week?

Let’s see about that. Take our weekly news quiz and see how well the stories of the week registered in your brain.

There are no prizes, so cheating is kind of pointless. You can, however measure where you are on the animal scale of intelligence.

Deep breath, here goes…

Mobile network Three went down on Monday. Which other network, which uses the Three infrastructure, had problems?
Meteor
Vodafone

eMobile
Tesco Mobile
A “story of journalistic failure that was avoidable" is how a story about a rape in a US college was described. What magazine carried the story?
Vanity Fair
Rolling Stone

The New Yorker
Time
The world's oldest woman died. What age was she?
114
115

116
117
Before boring this girl, what did David Cameron do that made one person call him a "monster"?
Eat a hot dog with a knife and fork
Eat a burger with a knife and fork

Eat a pizza with a knife and fork
Eat chips with a knife and fork
Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on how many counts this week?
20
17

28
30
What did Sinn Féin say would be their first act in government this week?
Scrapping the USC
Selling AIB

A referendum on a united Ireland
Dismantling Irish Water and repealing water charges
According to an ex-employee, working at Apple is like what?
A picnic
Working for a dictatorship

Working for a cult
A dream
A fire threatened which national park on Thursday?
Geoff Hamilton
The Burren
Killarney

Glenveagh
Connemara
Colin Farrell is sporting this moustache in the trailer for the new season of which show?
House of Cards
Homeland

True Detective
Arrested Development
WWE wrestler Sheamus told a Dublin crowd to pay their water charges. He also called Enda Kenny and who else Irish heroes?
Joan Burton
Mary Harney

Lucinda Creighton
Mary Lou McDonald
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Top Dog!
You've remembered all of this week. Fair play!
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Clever Cat!
You did really well. Take a well earned break and bask in your cleverness.
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Fintastic!
A decent display.
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What are ewe doing?!
Not great, was it?
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Turtle-y awful
Have you been inside your shell all week?
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