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How much do you know about this week’s news? Take our quiz

How closely were you paying attention?
7.30pm, 15 May 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…

The largest cruise ship to ever dock in Dublin came in on Monday. What's it called?
MSC Fantasia
MSC Splendida

MSC Divina
MSC Preziosa
Activists liberated these lobsters from a Dublin restaurant this week. Where did they release them?
Howth
Dalkey

Killiney
Clontarf
A whiskey distillery said it had been hit with a water bill for how much?
€50
€500

€50,000
€500,000
74 TDs voted down a bill that would have repealed the 8th Amendment. Whose bill was it?
Clare Daly
Ruth Coppinger

Catherine Murphy
Joan Collins
Problems with airbags led to Toyota and which other car manufacturer recalling thousands of cars?
Ford
Chevrolet

Nissan
Fiat
Derek Davis died aged 67. Which afternoon chat show did he host?
Live at 3
PM Live

Open House
The Afternoon Show
The man on the left is bringing 100 jobs to Dublin. What's his $2.8 billion valued startup called?
Snark
Slack

Snitch
Slash
Who did this man accidentally call a "c**t" on the BBC?
David Cameron
Nigel Farage

Ed Miliband
Nick Clegg
This under-construction office block sold for €58 million this week. Where is it?
Galway
Waterford

Cork
Limerick
U2 kicked off their new tour this week in Vancouver. But which hit was missing from the set list?
Pride
Mysterious Ways

One
Where The Streets Have No Name
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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.
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Turtle-y awful
Terrible.
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