BBC quiz

Ha, so I stole my favorite questions from this quiz at the BBC news website. See if you know the answers. (This stuff really did happen) I got 5 right out of 7, but I only put 4 questions on here.
The answers are at the bottom of this post.

Question 1
What began this week and ends on 2 August 2012?

A: The return voyage of the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn to earth
B: A new cycle of the study of the Talmud, a Jewish holy text that takes more than seven years to read
C: A scientific study to ascertain whether the so-called "seven-year itch” – the point at which partners are said to tire of their marriage - has any basis in fact


Question 2
In a controversial case in Bangladesh this week, four babies aged between three months and two years old were put on trial. But what were they accused of?

A: Fraud
B: Criminal damage and looting
C: Burglary


Question 3
This week, a US food company was forced to halt production of a new range of sweets, after being threatened with a boycott. Why were the sweets controversial?

A: They came in a range of meat flavours including beef and bacon
B: They were found by a consumer magazine to contain a record number of artificial colours and flavourings
C: They were shaped to look like animals killed on the road


Question 4
Why are Indian scientists maintaining a colony of 500 fat rats weighing 1kg or more?

A: The rats have sensitive noses, and could be trained to replace police sniffer dogs
B: The scientists are hoping to identify a gene that leads to obesity
C: The rats fur is especially fine, and can be used to make clothing for astronauts


Answers
1:B Jews read one page of the Talmud each day. The book of rabbinical laws and commentary has 2,711 pages, and takes seven years and five months to complete. One cycle finished this week and thousands of followers promptly returned to page one again.
2:B The court eventually dropped the case and suspended four police officers over the case, which highlighted the widespread practice of filing false complaints to harass people.
3:C The US food giant company Kraft decided to halt production of the sweets shaped like flattened snakes, chickens and squirrels after after animal rights activists said the sweets encouraged cruelty to animals, and threatened a boycott.
4:B