The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 23, ahead of Toby Brown on 20 and Liz Gerard on 19. The top teams were the Roberts Family and Maura and Phil Parsons who both scored 20. 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.
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A selection of today's front pages |
1. What was Prime Minister Boris Johnson referring to when he said: 'I think it's time we stopped our cringing embarrassment about our history, about our traditions and about our culture, and we stop this general bout of self-recrimination and wetness’?
2. The Government said fines for parents who refused to send their children to England's schools would only be used as a 'last resort’. How much is the maximum fine?
2. The Government said fines for parents who refused to send their children to England's schools would only be used as a 'last resort’. How much is the maximum fine?
3. Seventeen members of staff and two pupils tested positive for coronavirus at Kingspark School in which city?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson revised the Government’s position on pupils wearing masks in schools, adding ‘but not in the classrooms because that is clearly ___. You can't teach with face coverings, you can't expect people to learn with face coverings.’ What is the missing word?
5. Jamaica and which two European countries were removed from the UK’s safe list this week, meaning people arriving from there after 4am tomorrow (Saturday) will have to quarantine for 14 days?
6. Which company announced it is to create 16,000 new permanent jobs, including 3,000 delivery drivers, after lockdown led to 'exceptional growth' in its online business?
7. Workers on low incomes in parts of England where there are high rates of coronavirus will be able to claim up to how much a day if they have to self-isolate?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson revised the Government’s position on pupils wearing masks in schools, adding ‘but not in the classrooms because that is clearly ___. You can't teach with face coverings, you can't expect people to learn with face coverings.’ What is the missing word?
5. Jamaica and which two European countries were removed from the UK’s safe list this week, meaning people arriving from there after 4am tomorrow (Saturday) will have to quarantine for 14 days?
6. Which company announced it is to create 16,000 new permanent jobs, including 3,000 delivery drivers, after lockdown led to 'exceptional growth' in its online business?
7. Workers on low incomes in parts of England where there are high rates of coronavirus will be able to claim up to how much a day if they have to self-isolate?
8. World 100-metre and 200-metre record holder Usain Bolt tested positive for Covid-19 just days after a party for his birthday. How old was he?
9. A fast food chain dropped its famous slogan during the pandemic saying: 'We find ourselves in a unique situation - having an iconic slogan that doesn't quite fit in the current environment’? Name the company and the slogan. Half a point for each.
10. Sally Collier resigned from her role as chief executive of what?
11. Stewart Wingate, who is chief executive of what, announced around 600 job cuts, a quarter of the workforce, and a £343million loss as a result of the 'devastating impacts’ of the pandemic?
12. Chairman of the defence select committee Tobias Ellwood accused the Government of 'an absence of an over-arching defence strategy' after reports that the army was considering scrapping what?
13. Who told the Liberal Democrats to 'wake up and smell the coffee’ after he became the party’s fourth leader in five years?
14. Alexei Navalny, who is a critic of Russian president Vladimir Putin, had ‘probably' been poisoned according to doctors who were treating him in a hospital in which city?
15. Manchester United captain Harry Maguire was given a 21-month and ten-day suspended sentence after being found guilty in Greece of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and what other offence?
16. Brenton Tarrant was sentenced by a New Zealand court to life in prison without parole after admitting the murders of how many people at two mosques?
17. Accepting the Republican Party nomination, President Donald Trump said: 'This election will decide whether we will defend the ___ ___ ___ ___, or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it.’ What are the missing four words?
18. Two people were shot dead during BLM protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake in which city in Wisconsin?
19. England's James Anderson this week became the first fast bowler to reach how many Test wickets?
20. Nigeria was the last African country to be declared free of what disease?
21. Who tweeted this week: 'Earlier this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer and a couple of weeks ago I received the devastating news that the cancer has advanced to other parts of my body. I’m currently undergoing weekly chemotherapy sessions and I am fighting as hard as I possibly can’?
22. According to a study published in the BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine journal, pregnant women should cut out what completely to help avoid miscarriage, low birth weight and stillbirth?
23. Actress Sheridan Smith has revealed in a documentary that she 'went off the deep end' after being humiliated at the 2016 TV Bafta Awards ceremony, where the host made a joke about her 'being a drunk’. Who was the host?
24. It was announced this week that Matt, Charlie and Phil will be leaving what?
25. What will be happening in the ruins of Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales, this winter?
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