The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 20.5 ahead of Janet Boyle on 18.5. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 22. The Roberts family scored 18.5, Maura and Phil Parsons 18, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 17 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 16.5. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
The Chancellor's plans to help the hospitality industry appear on Thursday's front pages
2. VAT on food, accommodation and attractions is to be cut from 20 per cent to what for the next six months?
3. Chancellor Rishi Sunak was pictured serving customers at which London restaurant after unveiling an 'eat out to help out’ scheme to help the hospitality sector?
4. In an exchange over the number of deaths in care homes at Prime Minister's Questions, Boris Johnson called Sir Keir Starmer Captain who?
5. The Government gave the go-ahead for more places to reopen this month but which of these are not on the July list? a) massage parlours b) tanning salons c) children’s soft play areas d) indoor swimming pools.
6. The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that at least 13 what in the UK are at risk of closure as they are facing a financial black hole of up to £19billion due to the pandemic?
7. Which restaurant chain announced it would close 30 outlets and is expected to cut at least 1,000 jobs, saying the impact of coronavirus on trading meant it had to make a 'difficult decision’?
8. In a restructuring to 'mitigate the significant impact of Covid-19’, Boots announced it will cut more than 4,000 jobs - seven per cent of its workforce - and close 48 of what kind of stores?
9. Newspaper Group Reach, which announced 550 job losses, is the publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Daily Record and which other two daily national newspapers?
10. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said arts and culture 'make our country great’ and pledged a package of how much money to museums, galleries, theatres and music venues?
11. Television presenter Kate Garraway made an emotional return to Good Morning Britain and revealed her husband Derek Draper had almost died how many times during his 100-day battle with coronavirus?
12. The president of which country wore a mask and announced live on television he had tested positive for coronavirus?
13. Next, Asos and Amazon pulled which clothes label over workers’ pay and conditions at factories in Leicester?
14. Who tweeted to declare he was going to run for the presidency of America saying that ‘we must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future’?
15. The Metropolitan police apologised to which athlete after she was stopped and handcuffed while her baby son was in the car?
16. At London's High Court, actor Johnny Depp denied slapping ex-wife Amber Heard after she laughed at one of his tattoos. What did the tattoo say?
17. Which group said 'they had no choice' but to ask singer Tom Meighan to leave the band after he was charged with domestic assault?
18. Naya Rivera who is feared to have drowned at Lake Piru in California starred in which television show from 2009 to 2015?
19. In a video-link discussion on justice and equal rights The Duke and Duchess of Sussex said what 'must acknowledge the past' even if it is ‘uncomfortable’?
20. How did an 85-year-old woman die on Wednesday afternoon in Bow, East London?
21. Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College, Canterbury Christ Church University and The Mary Rose Trust all cut ties with historian David Starkey after he told an online show that slavery was not genocide as 'so many ___ blacks' had survived. What is the missing word?
22. BBC podcast No Country For Young Women came under fire for its use of what woman's name?
23. Composer Ennio Morricone, who died aged 91, was nominated seven times for a Grammy Award and had his score for what film inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame?
24. Test cricket returned after the lockdown on Wednesday as England took on the West Indies at which ground?
25. Jamaican sprinter Usian Bolt shared the first picture of his baby daughter and revealed her ‘unusual but apt’ first two names. What are they?
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