Herald news quiz: Saturday, October 17

1. Which Carry-On star has been honoured with a blue plaque at the central London site of his father’s barber shop?

2. British director Duncan Jones has won several prizes at a Spanish film festival for his first feature film Moon. Who is his famous father?

3. Matt Lucas has quit his West End role in which play after the death of his former partner?

4. Experts say that patients’ lives are being put at risk because of the European rules which state doctors can only work a maximum of how many hours per week?

5. Which writer has been honoured with a second funeral, 160 years after his death?

6. The new Michael Jackson single This Is It premiered this week. It has emerged that it was originally called I Never Heard and was written in 1983 by Jackson and which other singer/songwriter?

7. Which two Cluedo characters posed outside Scotland Yard to mark 60 years of the board game?

8. Jonathan Ross is to return as the host of the British Comedy Awards. Who replaced him as host last year?

9. A human X-ray machine which produces “naked “images of passengers was trialled at which airport this week?

10. Which country has been named as having the most dollar billionaires outside of the USA?

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Compiled by Beverley Taylor