Spot the April Fool

Newsquiz: Spot the April Fools

The tradition of April Fools' Day jokes grew out of resistance to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the 16th to 18th centuries. For hundreds of years journalists have created fantastical reports to mark April 1. Can you spot which of the following stories are April Fools' gags and which are true stories?

1. Inspired by Black Lace’s decision to re-release their 1984 song Agadoo, 25 years after it reached No 2 in the charts, Joe Dolce is to unveil a grime remix of Shaddap You Face later this month
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2. Floss, a Highland cow desperately seeking her lost calf, spent nine months roaming through Yorkshire, living off the land and emerging to feed only under cover of darkness
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3. Playing shoot-’em-up computer games could improve your eyesight by making you more sensitive to background detail, according to a study
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4. Daniel Craig is to step down as James Bond after the next film because he is sick of people going on about “that split-second bit in the first film where I happened to pop out of the sea in a perfectly normal pair of trunks”
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5. Gordon Brown has given his support to Jacqui Smith, insisting the beleaguered home secretary was doing “a great job”
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6. Julie Myerson has started work on a book, provisionally entitled The Lost Mother, about the media backlash she endured after writing about her son’s drug problem
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7. Guns N’ Roses have confirmed that their new album, Japanese Dialectics, will be in the shops by 2023
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8. Boris Johnson has appointed an entomologist from the Natural History museum – known as the London mayor’s Bee Czar – to help boost honey production in the capital
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9. Wayne and Coleen Rooney have announced that their first child will be called Waylon if it’s a boy
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10. Earlier this month, the Pope rejected the use of condoms as a way to combat HIV/Aids, saying: “The scourge cannot be resolved with the distribution of prophylactics; on the contrary, the risk is of increasing the problem.”
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