KPA Quiz 08-02-11 News 1. A street in which town has topped the police Crime Map?

Blackburn, Preston, Wiggin or Stoke. Glovers Court in Preston 2. Which Royal is set to make an appearance in the long running radio soap The Archers? Camilla 3. BP suffered its first annual loss in nearly 20 years this week. How much did it lose? 3.1 billion 4. This week the government announced plans for Criminal Behaviour Orders and Crime Prevention Injunctions. But what will they be replacing? ASBOs 5. The wife of Birmingham Yardley MP John Hemming was accused yesterday of doing what? Burglary and stealing a kitten from the home of her husband's mistress. Military 1. Which Roman Emperor presided over the beginning of the conquest of Britain? Claudius 2. Who is often referred to as The father of the atom bomb? And a bonus point if you can tell me where the first atomic bomb was detonated. Robert Oppenheimer. The Trinity Test in New Mexico at the White Sands Proving Grounds 3. The following quotes belong to which men? a. "War is hell" b. "I know not with what weapons world war three will be fought, but world war four will be fought with sticks and stones." c. "Draft beer, not people" Three Answers a. Gen Sherman b. Albert Einstein c. Bob Dylan 4. A word used in international law meaning 'the state of being at war'? Twelve letters Belligerency 5. What were the last words of General John Sedgewick, a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War? They couldnt hit an elephant at this dist

Science and Nature 1. Toothed and Baleen are both examples of what? Whale 2. The scientific name for which well-known extinct creature means 'rapid thief' when translated? Velociraptor 3. The Millennium Star, The Centenary, The Red Cross and The Incomparable are all examples of what? Diamonds (Some of the largest in the world) 4. Where are the Islets of Langerhans? The Pancreas 5. What is the difference between a meteoroid and a mereorite? A meteoroid is still in space. A meteorite has fallen to earth.