The Friday quiz, 14.09.12

By Toby Manhire In The Internaut

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1. Here’s the opening paragraph from a Telegraph travel story. What six-letter word is missing?


2. Who wrote an open letter to Wikipedia, complaining about misrepresentations that had entered the online encyclopedia “not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip”?

3. Super-wealthy Frenchman Bernard Arnault is sueing the newspaper Libération over a headline which read, “Get lost, you ____ _____”. What?

4. NBC attracted flak after it cut from the minute’s silence on 9/11 to an interview of who talking about her what?

5. What word is missing from this Slate headline about the Chicago mayor?


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1. Barbie.

2. Philip Roth.

3. Rich idiot.

4. Kris Jenner. Boob job. (corrected, everyone scores five points.)

5. Nickelback.

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