Christmas quiz | 25 December 2017

Weird world

 
In 2017:
 
1. Police discovered thousands of what kind of plant growing in a disused nuclear bunker in Wiltshire?
2. Cuban exiles complained about an Irish postage stamp commemorating whom?
3. Which supermarket chain apologised for an advertisement before Easter that said: ‘Great offers on beer and cider. Good Friday just got better’?
4. Upon opening its first store on the Isle of Wight, which supermarket chain put on sale 10,000 commemorative shopping bags bearing the legend ‘Isle of White’?
5. Cinemas in Kuwait were prohibited from screening which Disney live-action film because a character was depicted as gay?
6. Scientists detected chemical signs of 8,000-year-old wine, the oldest yet found, in pottery in which Black Sea country?
7. A police sniper accidentally shot a waiter and a railwayman in the leg during a speech by the head of state of which European country?
8. Which country issued an appeal for New Year restraint: ‘Let us enthusiastically take action by not setting off, or setting off fewer, fireworks.