Saturday 6 November 2010 7 countries that have changed their names

  1. Mexico - New Spain
  2. Suriname - Dutch Guiana
  3. Ghana - Gold Coast
  4. Indonesia - Netherlands East Indies
  5. Mali - French Sudan
  6. Belize - British Honduras
  7. Moldova - Moldavia

Friday 5 November 2010 7 co-conspiritors in the 1605 gunpowder plot

  1. John Wright
  2. Thomas Wintour
  3. Thomas Percy
  4. Robert Keyes
  5. Thomas Bates
  6. Robert Wintour
  7. Sir Ambrose Rookwood

Thursday 4 November 2010 7 Norse Jötnar

  1. Ægir
  2. Bolthorn
  3. Fornjót
  4. Gríðr
  5. Hrímgerðr
  6. Ymir
  7. Fárbauti

Wednesday 3 November 2010 7 native british trees

  1. Hazel
  2. Oak
  3. Rowan
  4. Hornbeam
  5. Willow
  6. Yew
  7. Beech

Tuesday 2 November 2010 7 articles in this week's Nature Journal

  1. The structural basis for membrane binding and pore formation by lymphocyte perforin
  2. Stem cells: The intestinal–crypt casino
  3. Biogeochemistry: Phosphorus and the gust of fresh air
  4. Quantum tunnelling of the magnetization in a monolayer of oriented single-molecule magnets
  5. The proteasome antechamber maintains substrates in an unfolded state
  6. On-line, voluntary control of human temporal lobe neurons
  7. Chronic high-fat diet in fathers programs β-cell dysfunction in female rat offspring

Monday 1 November 2010 7 answers we got right in this week's University Challenge

  1. Mosse
  2. Raphael
  3. Canada
  4. Epitaph
  5. Sand
  6. Downsizing
  7. Will 2K / Rock the Casbah

Sunday 31 October 2010 7 real life pirates

  1. Anne Bonny
  2. Benjamin Hornigold
  3. Cheung Po Tsai
  4. Stede Bonnet
  5. Thomas Tew
  6. William Kidd
  7. Chales Vane