It Aint Gonna Be Hard . . .

[Buenchico]

. . . to beat me this week (but when is it ever?)

Just 2 out of 7 for me:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-48785266

Surely you can all do better than that, can't you?

[tamborine]

no chance Chris as I rarely read the papers.

[-SharonA-]

I got 4 and one was a pure guess.

[Toorak]

6 - mostly guesswork

[Buenchico]

Thanks for keeping me company, Clyde59 ;-)

Only one 'pure guess', Sharon? Most of us need 6 or 7 guesses to find any answers! (Well done with 4/7).

So who's a little brainbox then, Toorak? Well done!

[sanmac]

6/7. I knew two but the rest were lucky guesses. Time to buy a lottery ticket I guess.

[woofgang]

3!!

[Buenchico]

3 is still 50% better than my score, Woofgang!

Well done, Sanmac. Good luck on the lottery!

[woofgang]

Chris, I knew about the japanese slug

[Buenchico]

Just think what you could have used those brain cells for though, Woofgang, if they weren't storing obscure information about Japanese slugs ;-)

[MargoTester]

5 - all guesses.

[TonyV]

Only 3 this week for me.

[roopower]

2 for me as well. I don't remember seeing any of those stories in the news

[Tilly2]

3 for me as well.

[Buenchico]

3 is still better than my score, TonyV!

Perhaps you should enter for some multi-choice examinations without any advance preparation, Margo? With luck like that you could rapidly become qualified in all sorts of things ;-)

[Buenchico]

Thanks for keeping me company, Roopower. All of the stories referred to in the quiz have appeared on the BBC News site but, admittedly, often in obscure corners of it!

Better than me, Tilly2!

[woofgang]

Its weird isn't it...I have zero memory for people's names or for pretty much anything involving numbers, unless I use the string often, but I can remember obscure stuff I learned 60 or so years ago (Zeta anyone?) and the slug thing stuck even though I had only heard it on the late night beeb news while I was reading.