The top solo score in last week’s newsquiz was Alex Ross with 19, just ahead of Liz Gerard on 18. The top teams were Simon, Sue and Will Cole and Phil and Maura Parsons who both scored 20. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
A selection of today's front pages
1. Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, referring to his talks with the Government over Tier 3 restrictions, asked: 'Are they playing ___ with places and people’s lives through a pandemic? Is that what this is about?' What is the missing word?
2. The Welsh government announced that a 'sharp and deep firebreak' – under which schools, shops, pubs and hotels would close and citizens would be told to stay at home – would last for how long?
3. Which two of these eight Northern towns will not be in the Government’s third tier this weekend - Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Warrington, Rotherham, Wakefield, Doncaster and Barnsley? Half a point for each.
4. Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner apologised for using what word in the House of Commons during a debate on the Government’s handling of the pandemic?
5. Four students were fined £10,000 each and suspended from which university after telling police, who broke up their house party, they were 'spoiling their fun'?
6. Which European country this week became the sixth in the world to pass one million recorded cases of Covid-19?
7. Who reacted to Cabinet Minister Michael Gove's argument in the Commons, that the UK could operate better on border security from outside the EU, by appearing to mouth the words 'utter rubbish' to colleagues?
8. Tory MP Caroline Ansell resigned as a parliamentary private secretary after voting against the Government on what?
9. Who was Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon referring to when she said in her daily Press conference that 'he is a key worker and he has got lots of magic powers that make him safe'?
10. Great-grandmother Maureen Eames, 83, went viral after an interview saying she didn't give what about Tier 3 restrictions to beat Coronavirus?
11. What was the name of the French teacher who was beheaded close to his school in Paris?
12. Who posted a picture on Instagram of himself looking into the sunset with the caption: 'Thank you to everybody who has supported me through this ordeal. I will be spending some time putting my family back together again.'
13. What is the name of the asteroid where a Nasa spacecraft landed to collect cosmic rubble for analysis?
14. Who said: 'Homosexual people have a right to be in a family. They are children of God and have a right to a family. Nobody should be thrown out or made miserable over it'?
15. Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani dismissed as a 'fabrication' a scene from a film which appears to show him on a bed with a hand inside his trousers. What is the full name of the film?
16. Widow Claire Mercer, after a court case at Sheffield Crown Court, said what was to blame for her husband’s death?
17. Who told a drive-in rally in Philadelphia that: 'Donald Trump isn’t suddenly going to protect all of us. He can’t even take the basic steps to protect himself'?
18. According to research, published in the journal Nature Food, bottle-fed babies are swallowing millions of what a day?
19. Royal Mail announced what new service from Wednesday which it described as 'one of the biggest changes to the daily delivery since the launch of the postbox in 1852'?
20. The Champions League started this week. Which was the only British team to not win their opening fixture?
21. Residents in a Canadian town voted in favour of changing its name to Val-des-Sources. What was the town called before?
22. Why did Sky History axe its new show, The Chop: Britain's Top Woodworker, in which carpenters tested their skills?
23. Major Mick Stanley, 80, set off on a 100-mile charity trip on the Chichester Canal rowing a boat made from corrugated iron, hosepipes and curtain hooks. What is his boat called?
24. What did Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his siblings give their father, Stanley, on his 80th birthday?
25. Which UK singer will be guest hosting the NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live this weekend?
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