Are You Overly Influenced by Current Affairs? A Quiz.

Name the following:


1. An animal who thought himself an invincible giant, but who just turned out to be a big ape who grabs women against their will up New York skyscrapers, causes a public furore and ends up falling to his doom.















2. A huge figure sent over from France at great expense and who got stuck out on a small island just off Manhattan.





















3. A highly poisonous horny frog.



















4. An over-confident Gallic leader who found out the hard way that if you try to repeat your conquests everywhere, there will always be a country that will catch you out.















5. An activity that used to be more-or-less tolerated but is now condemned worldwide and about which the French were a little slow in changing their habits.















Now if your answer to all of the above was the "Dominique Strauss-Kahn Scandal", then the answer to the quiz's title is a resounding YES.