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Last night, Steven Spielberg was recognised with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Producers Guild of America

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Test your knowledge in the big IoS quiz

February 7 marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth

What the Dickens? Try our literary quiz

Know your Nickleby from your Nell? How many questions can you answer about one of English literature's greatest figures? Katy Guest, Emily Dugan and Matthew Bell set the challenge

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The Saturday quiz

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1. Occupy Wall Street.

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1. What began on 17 September this year in Zuccotti Park?

The Saturday quiz

1. Historically speaking, who was the occupant of a dower house?

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1. The widow of an estate owner.

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1. As of 2010, which UK charitable organisation, founded in 1894, had 3.7 million members?

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1 The National Trust

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1. Which leading figure in the entertainment industry has a company called Syco?

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1. Simon Cowell.

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1. Switzerland.

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1. In which western European country were women not granted the vote until 1971?

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1. George Clooney on the US presidency.

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Happy birthday, Hotel Babylon!

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Low-rise capital could finally reach for the sky
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The rapper, the heiress and a drama made in Chelsea...
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River Phoenix: the final reel

Twenty years after the actor's death, his last film is to be released
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Investors are crying foul over the huge losses they incurred when the social network site floated on the stock market last week
Up and away – how '7 Up' went global

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