The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Sam Neve with 21, closely followed by Janet Boyle on 20.5, Jayme Bryla on 19 and Blaise Tapp on 17. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with another impressive 24. The Roberts Family scored 22, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 21.5, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20.5, Maura and Phil Parsons 20, Andy and Amanda Kitson, 18.5 and Peter and Stacey 16. 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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2. Why did a photograph of 28-year-old Patsy Stevenson go viral?
3. Government plans to beef up police powers to deal with protests came a step closer to becoming law when the second reading of the Police, Crime, ___ and Courts Bill was passed by MPs with a majority of 96. What is the missing word?
4. Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted a delayed shipment of five million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute in which country was behind the shortage about to hit the UK?
5. The European Medicines Agency reviewed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after 13 EU states suspended its use over fears of blood clots. But which of these countries did not stop using the vaccine? a) Italy b) Belgium c) Germany d) Spain
6. Former Downing Street advisor Dominic Cummings, giving evidence to the Science and Technology Committee, described what as 'a smoking ruin' at the start of the pandemic?
7. At a Downing Street Press briefing this week deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam weighed in to defend the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, saying that the jabs 'don't save lives if they're in the ___'. What is the missing word?
8. A Government Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy recommended that a cap on what should increase from 180 to 260?
9. The first photographs of Downing Street’s new £2.6 million White House-style media briefing room were released with what household item inadvertently nestled in a corner?
10. Which retailer announced plans to permanently close its 61 stores, affecting 603 employees?
11. Which Conservative MP used parliamentary privilege to reveal messages indicating aides knew about harassment complaints against Alex Salmond two months before Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she was told about them?
12. Which company announced its first annual loss, of £13.7 million, since floating on the stock market 37 years ago but said it would make a comeback by opening 100 new shops?
13. Detectives, investigating the murder of Stuart Lubbock at whose house 20 years ago, arrested a 50-year-old man?
14. Which sports investment platform collapsed into administration and had its gambling licence suspended, triggering losses for tens of thousands of savers?
15. The operators of which theme park were fined £1 million over safety failings which led to the death of an 11-year-old girl on a water rapids ride?
16. Eight people were killed in mass shootings at three massage parlours in which US city?
17. Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker, who died aged 97, was famous for many quotes including this one which features on a Silverstone greeting card: 'There's nothing wrong with the car, except it's ___ ___.' What are the two missing words?
18. Former undisputed world middleweight champion Marvin Hagler, who died aged 66, changed his first name to what in 1982?
19. Which programme attracted a record number of complaints, 57,121, to Ofcom … 12,600 more than the previous highest in 2007?
20. Sabine Schmitz, who died aged 51, was the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours and a former presenter of which BBC television programme?
21. Former EastEnders actress Patsy Palmer shut down an interview with Good Morning Britain after a headline described her as: 'Patsy Palmer: ___ to a wellness guru'. What is the missing word?
22. Rachael Blackmore, 31, made history when she became the first woman to do what?
23. Chris Wilder became the third Premier League manager to lose his job this season when he parted company with which club?
24. Which Netflix film received the most 'nods' with ten Oscar nominations?
25. Who became only the fourth artist, after Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, to win the album of the year prize three times at The Grammys?
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