1. Pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were doing the rounds this week, showing him at prayer in his first public appearance for some time. But what about this image drew particular scorn?

2. Which people are “just really real”, according to Orlando Bloom?

3. Which people who use Twitter user have been condemned by a Saudi cleric as “sinful”, and described by a Saudi psychologist as “suffering from a sense of internal void”?

4. What is the name of the US Republican senatorial nominee who believes that women “don’t get pregnant from ‘legitimate rape’, anyway”?

5. In a much talked about interview with a New Mexico radio show last Friday, Barack Obama was pressed on his preference between what two things?

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1. He is shown apparently turning his head, in doing so “concluding his prayers before the imam”.

2. Wellingtonians. Or New Zealanders. Not sure which he means. But “they don’t care about the same things that everyone else does”.

3. Someone who buys followers on the social network.

4. Todd Akin.

5. Red and green chile. “The Q&A with the crew on KOB-FM’s ‘Morning Mayhem’ was one of a handful President Obama participated in this week with non-traditional outlets, something that’s increasingly a sore spot for members of the White House press corps that haven’t enjoyed a presidential news conference since early June.”