Answers

NEWS

1 Mark Mcdonald 2 Bruce Forsyth 3 Tom Watson 4 £1.35bn 5 Connor Newall 6 Andy Murray 7 Glastonbury 8 71 9 Susan Aitken 10 Hurricane Ophelia

SHOWBIZ

1 Ewen Bremner 2 David Tennant 3 Warren Beatty 4 Pricewaterhousecoopers 5 The Queen. 6 Jack Maynard 7 Sir Carter and Rumi 8 Selena Gomez 9 Jodie Whitaker 10 Stormzy, who tweeted: “Woke up to Feds destroying my front door coz apparently I’m a burglar who burgles his own home.”

BUSINESS

1 Mike Ashley of Sports Direct 2 Jes Staley, chief executive of Barclays 3 Brewdog 4 Aberdeen Asset Management 5 Quiz 6 Miller Homes 7 £85,000 8 John Menzies 9 Mccoll’s 10 62

ARTS/CULTURE

1 Two acts shared the main prize for the first time ever. 2 70th 3 Sacred Paws 4 Underbelly 5 Death of a Salesman 6 Bonnie Prince Charlie 7 Zinnie Harris 8 Kapka Kassabova 9 Kengo Kuma 10 Dunfermline

POLITICS

1 From: Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh; Richard Arkless; Phil Boswell; Stuart Donaldson; Margaret Ferrier; George Kerevan: Calum Kerr; Callum Mccaig; Anne Mclaughlin; Paul Monaghan; Roger Mullin; John Nicolson; Kirsten Oswald: Steven Paterson; Owen Thomson; Mike Weir: Elidh Whiteford; Corri Wilson. 2 The World Cup. Ross, a wellknown football referee, has told the football authorities he will not officiate at matches while Westminster is sitting. 3 The event was so tightly stage managed she didn’t actually meet any members of the public. 4 Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy. 5 One billion pounds. 6 The Foreign Secretary began to recite the Rudyard Kipling colonial era poem `The Road to Mandalay’. 7 The Irish Border. 8 RT (formerly Russia Today). 9 Jenny Gilruth. 10 Stanley Johnston.

FOOD AND DRINK

1 Verdant Gin 2 Rosebank, Brora and Port Ellen 3 Caviar 4 Macallan 5 An Empire Biscuit 6 Sweden 7 Covfefe 8 The Buffalo Truck 9 Brewdog 10 Kilmarnock

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1 Edinburgh 2 Forth Road Bridge 3 Glasgow 4 Silk worms 5 Hemp 6 45 minutes 7 £20,000 8 Phosphorus 9 Dundee 10 ‘Living sculptures’ - 4m tall installations covered in moss

SPORT

1 Sergio Garcia 2 Ireland, Wales, Italy 3 Robert Snodgrass 4 Aberdeen 5 One For Arthur 6 Sam Querrey 7 Laura Muir 8 Caster Semenya 9 Jelena Ostapenko 10 Australia.

WORLD NEWS

1 37 2 Kazuo Ishiguro 3 Brussels 4 39 5 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull 6 Sea of Japan (or the East Sea) 7 Myanmar (Burma) 8 Gerry Adams 9 Route 91 Harvest country music festival 10 Mosul, Iraq

BIRTHS, DEATHS & MARRIAGES

1 Sir Roger Moore. 2 To mark the death of former television Caped Crusader Adam West. 3 Tara Palmer-tomkinson. 4 Amal and George Clooney. 5 Cheryl and Liam Payne. 6 Serena Williams, who wed Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. 7 Tian Tian, the giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo. 8 Comedian Russell Brand married Laura Gallacher, the mother of his baby daughter Mabel. 9 Jessica Ennis-hill. 10 Pippa Middleton.