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A storm battering Britain, the steel industry in crisis, and the death of Ronnie Corbett. Take the BuzzFeed News quiz, made from stories featured in the BuzzFeed News app and the BuzzFeed News newsletter this week.

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Thousands of jobs are at risk after Tata Steel, the country’s biggest steel producer, announced it plans to sell its entire UK operation. Which Welsh town is its largest UK steel mill based in?

[Four thousand workers and 3,000 contractors face potentially losing their jobs](http://www.buzzfeed.com/simonneville/what-on-earth-is-going-on-with-tata-steel#.vuPb6yV57D) in the town – not to mention the many businesses who rely on the factory indirectly.

It's Port Talbot.

Steel industry in crisis

Renowned British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid [died aged 65](http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosebuchanan/architect-dame-zaha-hadid-dies-aged-65#.yl5Dpd85n7) – which one of these buildings _wasn't_ designed by her?

The others are the London Aquatics Centre, the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London, all of which Hadid designed.

It's the Scottish parliament building that wasn't designed by Hadid.

Zaha Hadid

Britain began the week being battered by a storm – but what was the storm called?

At least 2,000 homes were left without power and 23 flood warnings were issued as [Katie brought high winds and heavy rain](http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/britain-suffers-high-winds-rain-and-floods-as-storm-katie-hi#.don2BNjbnY) to the UK on Easter Monday.

It was Storm Katie.

Stormy weather

Junior doctors are angry that the new contract imposed on them by the government will disproportionately affect...who?

The [government's own assessment acknowledged](http://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/junior-doctors-say-new-contract-leaves-a-glaring-gender-pay#.cnKkvm1YeM) that it may disadvantage some women doctors, but concluded that “any indirect adverse effect on women is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim”.

It's mothers – they are concerned the new pay deal won't protect those on maternity leave or with childcare responsibilities.

Junior doctors

The editor of which Eurosceptic British newspaper was revealed by BuzzFeed News this week to have received £60,000 from the EU in subsidies for his Scottish shooting and hunting estate?

Dacre [claimed £59,534 in 2014 alone for his Langwell Estate from the EU's Common Agricultural Policy fund](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/paul-dacre-langwell-estate#.jhOvmwrPlB). In a separate move, Dacre – whose paper is also notoriously sceptical of climate change – has set up a business to develop renewable energy, building a hydroelectric power plant on his Scottish land.

It was Paul Dacre, the longstanding editor of the _Daily Mail_.

EU subsidies

Labour's mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan used whose lyrics to describe his relationship with party leader Jeremy Corbyn?

Khan – who was [described as "hostile" to Corbyn on a leaked list](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/anti-corbyn-labour-mps) allegedly produced by the leader's office – [told BuzzFeed News](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/sadiq-khan-explains-his-relationship-to-corbyn-through-micha#.pmp8NAW6MD): “I’m not hostile in any way. In the words of Michael Jackson: ‘The girl is mine. I’m a lover not a fighter.’”

Sadiq Khan quoted Michael Jackson!

London mayor race

The maker of which iconic British delicacy this week pledged to reduce the sugar content in its products?

A.G. Barr said it would “substantially” reduce the sugar in its drinks to reflect the changing preferences of shoppers. It also said it expected the financial impact of the new sugary drinks tax to be minimal.

It was A.G. Barr, manufacturer of Scotland's favourite hangover cure, Irn-Bru.

Sugar in food & drink

Cupcake the cat survived an unexpected adventure when she was accidentally posted more than 260 miles – after she managed to hide in a box full of...what?

"[I feel terrible about what’s happened](http://www.buzzfeed.com/laurasilver/let-the-cat-out-the-box#.kuw7EmnPqj), because I put everything in the box and sealed it straight away so I don’t how she managed to get in there," her owner Julie Baggott said.

Cupcake managed to get trapped inside a box of DVDs.

Cat in the post

Comedy legend Ronnie Corbett of the Two Ronnies [died at the age of 85](http://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewchampion/and-its-goodnight-from-him#.qsoV6xQlZg). But how many candles did he want in his most famous sketch?

It was Ronnie Barker who played the customer (who in any case wanted fork handles, not four candles...).

He didn't want any: Corbett played the _shopkeeper_ in [the famous "Four Candles" sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGpaj2nHIo).

Ronnie Corbett

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