There is a swear word in the first question. So if you don’t like swear words don’t look at the first question. There is an even ruder swear word in the first answer. Which is a warning but also sort of a clue.

1. “She looks like a fucking fairground stripper.” That’s who (for half a point), speaking about whom (for a point and a bit)?

2. Which words, a crucial part of a major story coming out of Russia, did the Los Angeles Times find itself incapable of printing at least once this week?

3. An Australian Facebook page was taken down this week because of its depiction of which group of people as a bunch of drunkards?

4. What news event links Rupert Murdoch with Metallica?

5. American sprinter Tyson Gay finished outside the medals in the 100 metre sprint the other day. But what happened to him, four years ago, in the hands of the American Christian website OneNewsNow?

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1. Elton John, speaking about Madonna, and her disappointing recent performances. He added: “Her career is over. Her tour has been a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger cunt.”

2. Pussy Riot.

3. Aboriginals. The page was called “Controversial Humor Aboriginal Memes”.

4. Louise Mensch, a UK Conservative MP and inqusitor of the NewsCorp boss, resigned her seat in parliament to move to New York to be closer to her family and husband, who is manager of the wildly popular oddball band.

5. He was renamed Tyson Homosexual.