/ 24 December 2011

Answers: Are you a news junkie? Test yourself

    1. Tunisia

    2. Sicelo Shiceka, Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde

    3. U2

    4. A tornado

    5. Michael Jackson

    6. Natalie Portman, Black Swan

    7. The King’s Speech

    8. Nobel prize for literature

    9. Athol Trollip

    10. Cassel Mathale

    11. Julius Malema

    12. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi; sex

    13. Conference of the Parties

    14. Muammar Gaddafi (he wrote The Green Book)

    15. The Amazon rainforest

    16. Windows 7.5 “Mango”

    17. The hacker collective that claimed responsibility for hacking the website of Sony Pictures and briefly bringing down the CIA’s site

    18. Anonymous

    19. Anton Hammerl

    20. Dali Mpofu

    21. (a)

    22. Jimmy Manyi

    23. Victor Matfield, Bakkies Botha, John Smit

    24. Osama bin Laden

    25. News of the World

    26. Rupert Murdoch

    27. The three new heavy elements found this year

    28. Li Na

    29. Its sales of e-books (for its Kindle reader) exceeded those of all its other books combined

    30. Andries Tatane

    31. Republic of South Sudan

    32. International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

    33. Schabir Shaik

    34. Torture chambers for workers

    35. Brigalia Bam

    36. Baby bottles

    37. The Golden Rabbit

    38. (c)

    39. Julius Malema’s son and his controversial trust fund

    40. Protection of State Information Bill

    41. Press freedom; October 19

    42. On that day Parliament voted to adopt the secrecy Bill

    43. Ben Turok, Gloria Borman

    44. David Goldblatt

    45. Right2Know, the coalition campaigning against the secrecy Bill

    46. United Christian Democratic Party

    47. University of Zululand, Walter Sisulu University, Tshwane University of Technology

    48. Zambia

    49. David Tlale

    50. Nelson Mandela

    51. Fikile Mbalula, sports minister

    52. (c)

    53. Nyotaimori (body sushi)

    54. Sex

    55. Playboy

    56. Mogoeng Mogoeng

    57. Mogoeng Mogoeng

    58. Johnny Molefe; Tshwane University of Technology

    59. Julian Barnes

    60. Apple

    61. South Korea; 2202 kilobytes per second

    62. Yolanda Botha

    63. The Pottermore fan website

    64. Daniel Radcliffe

    65. She was shot in the head

    66. Ahmed Rushdie

    67. Donald Trump’s

    68. Prince Albert to Charlene Wittstock

    69. Pippa Middleton, sister of Kate, who married Prince William in April

    70. Former English rugby captain Mike Tindall, husband of the Queen’s granddaughter, Zara Phillips

    71. The (able-bodied) IAAF World Championships

    72. Honshu, Japan

    73. Janice Linden

    74. The Dalai Lama

    75. Commission of inquiry into the arms deal

    76. Bryce Lawrence

    77. Helen Zille

    78. Presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj

    79. Synap Forte

    80. Annual national assessments (of school grades one to six)

    81. The United States’s space shuttle programme — they were the first and last commanders

    82. Ruud Krol; Orlando Pirates

    83. Benni McCarthy

    84. The uprising against his rule in Libya, which was due to host the tournament, led to South Africa’s selection as the venue — and host countries qualify automatically

    85. National health insurance

    86. Four; Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Gauteng, Free State

    87. The Donen commission’s

    88. Media24, the Johannesburg bookshop’s holding company

    89. Apple

    90. 5%

    91. Cellphones

    92. Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder

    93. Willem Heath; head of the special investigating unit

    94. Nuclear reactors

    95. Hugh Masekela

    96. The city’s rates-billing chaos

    97. Trevor Manuel

    98. Kader Asmal

    99. Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s

    100. Both accused Strauss-Kahn of rape

    101. M-Net’s Idols

To return to the questions, click here

View more highlights of the year that was in our special report.