Friday, 10 April 2020

Time to tackle the Good Friday newsquiz ...

I hope all of you newsquizzers are staying safe and well this beautiful Good Friday. Most of you should have had time to absorb this week's news so I am looking for big scores this week. Last week there were some impressive results. Pick of the bunch was Tom Savage with a record solo score of 23. The Penmans also scored 23, equalling the team record. Others worth a mention are Mary Williams and Janet Boyle, both with 21. The Roberts Family and Phil and Maura Parsons both scored 22. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.  



Only one story for Tuesday's front pages

1. What is the name of the London hospital where Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care?
2. Who said of Boris Johnson’s time in hospital: 'If it can hit the Prime Minister for heaven’s sake, well, you know, it does come close to home. He almost took one for the team and we’ve got to make sure we play the game properly now’?
3. In her message to the nation, the Queen said: 'We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: we will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will ___ ___. What are the missing two words?
4. Scotland’s chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood resigned after making a second visit to her holiday home, an hour away from her Edinburgh base, in which part of Scotland?
5. Chancellor Rishi Sunak, in Downing Street’s Wednesday coronavirus briefing, announced how much in extra funding for frontline charities across the UK?
6. Which company’s chief executive defended its decision to give investors £900million in dividends despite taking £585million from the Government’s business rates relief holiday?
7. Keir Starmer was elected as leader of the Labour Party by winning what percent of the vote?

8. Former Labour leader Ed Miliband returned the shadow cabinet in what position?
9. Which Premier League football club, after receiving criticism, reversed its decision to put around 200 non-playing staff on furlough?
10. Which European city banned exercise outside between 10am and 7pm as deaths from coronavirus continued to rise?
11. Staff working for which high street chain, with 750 UK stores, set up a petition, pleading with management to close over safety concerns?
12. At midnight on Wednesday Chinese authorities allowed residents to leave Wuhan, where the coronavirus pandemic began, after how many days sealed off from the world?
13. Which country’s Prime Minister, who worked as a GP, is to work one day a week as a doctor to help combat the coronavirus pandemic?
14. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said that MPs would be able to claim how much for additional office costs incurred as a result of the coronavirus?
15. Which footballer's England career was left in doubt after flouting Government lockdown rules by hosting a £2,000 sex party with two prostitutes?
16. US President Donald Trump said freezing the funding of which organisation was under consideration, accusing it of being 'China-centric’?

17. Premier League footballers including Harry Kane, Harry Maguire, Marcus Rashford, Troy Deeney, Virgil van Dijk, Jordan Henderson and Fernandinho shared a statement on an initiative to raise funds for NHS charities using what hashtag?
18. Why was four-year-old Nadia from the Bronx in the headlines?
19. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern reassured children that the Tooth Fairy and which other character would be exempt from travel restrictions imposed during the lockdown?
20. Who live-streamed on Twitter this week saying: ‘Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on’?
21. Actress Honor Blackman, who died age 94, was best known for her roles in James Bond and the Avengers. Name the two characters she played. Half a point for each.
22. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed plans to launch a new charitable organisation called what?
23. Which singer, who spent nine years in the US Navy before becoming a pop star at 33 and reaching the UK top ten with Lovely Day, died age 81?
24. US President Donald Trump said he would ‘look into’ pardoning Joe Exotic who is serving a 22-year sentence for murder and who appeared in a Netflix documentary series called what?
25. What space phenomenon, which happened this week, takes its name from a North American spring flower?

Answers here


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