weekly Quiz WC 15/1/24

British Telecom group is planning to convert the old green street cabinets used to store broadband and phone cabling into what?

• EV charging points

• Outdoor public restrooms
• Community gardens
• Mini 5G cell towers

What is the name of the faulty software that caused more than 700 Post Office branch managers to be convicted of false accounting, theft and fraud and which is at last getting the publicity it needs to be cleared up?

• Zenith
• Summit
• Horizon
• Apex

The slaughter and sale of what animals for their meat is to become illegal in South Korea after Korean MPs backed a new law to come into force by 2027, aiming to end the centuries-old practice of humans eating it?

• cats
• horses
• chickens
• dogs

What is the name of the footballer who captained West Germany to win the World Cup in 1974, and was widely regarded as one of football's greatest players, who died last week aged 78?

• Diego Maradona
• Franz Beckenbauer
• Pele
• Lionel Messi

A state of emergency was declared in Papua New Guinea's capital after at least 15 people were killed in rioting that started after which people went on strike in the city?

• police officers
• politicians
• students
• doctors

What is the name of the BBC Radio 1 DJ, who was the station's first female presenter, and went on to become its longest-serving host, who has died at the age of 83?

• Annie Nightingale
• Annie Mac
• Zoe Ball
• Sara Cox

The sub-Saharan African island nation, Cape Verde, has been declared free of which disease by the World Health Organization for the first time in 50 years?

• Yellow fever
• Cholera
• Malaria
• Tuberculosis

The southern Indian city of Bengaluru - often called India's Silicon Valley has hit the headlines after protesters tore down English billboards, demanding that they be written in the city's local language, What is the local language called?

• Hindi
• Tamil
• Kannada
• Telugu

What is the Football competition currently being held in the Ivory Coast in Africa called?

• AFCON

• Africa Cup

• Bundesliga
• Premier League

Gabriel Attal was appointed last week to what position in the French Government under President Macron?

• Minister of Finance
• Prime Minister

• Secretary of Defense
• Ambassador to the United Nations