Friday 2 April 2021

The Good Friday newsquiz ...

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Cormac Connelly-Smith, Janet Boyle and Liz Gerard who all clocked up 18. Dominic Hurst, Blaise Tapp and Gavin Devine scored 17 and Ailsa Leslie 16. The top team was Simon, Sue and William Cole with 22.5 followed by Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 21, The Roberts Family and Maura and Phil Parsons 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19, Andy and Amanda Kitson 18 and Jess Devonport and Nick Collins 17. A special shoutout goes to Sarah C who scored one - and still posted her result. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual here are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. The Government announced it was adding four countries to the red list of places where travel to the UK is virtually banned from April 9. They were the Philippines, Kenya and which other two? Half a point for each.
2. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he believed that if 'we get the virus properly under control, the death rates are near zero, hospital admissions very, very low, that the British ___ in those circumstances will be against vaccine passports’. What is the missing word?
3. Which country’s president announced a nationwide month-long lockdown, with schools closing for at least three weeks and travel banned, adding ‘we will lose control if we do not move now’?
4. Under the Government’s roadmap which of these were not allowed to re-open in England on Monday?
a) zoos b) golf courses c) tennis courts d) riding centres
5. What is the name of the former policeman who went on trial for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis?
6. What is the name of the new Scottish political party formed by former First Minister Alex Salmond?
7. Businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri gave the Sunday Mirror details of her four-year affair with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, revealing that she codenamed him after which historical figure?
8. What is the name of the London school, embroiled in a row over alleged racist uniform rules, where teachers threatened industrial action and passed a vote of no confidence in the headmaster?
9. BBC correspondent John Sudworth left which country following pressure and threats from the authorities?
10. Why was Samuel Kasumu in the headlines?
11. At least 48 people were killed after a train crashed in a tunnel in which country?
12. Benjamin Hannam, 22, became the first serving policeman to be convicted of what offence? 
13. Denise Coates, founder and majority shareholders of which company, was awarded one of the biggest pay packets in UK history - a salary of £469 million including £48 million in dividends - in the year ending March 29?
14. Which the camera equipment retailer, owned by Dragons’ Den panelist Peter Jones, filed a notice to appoint administrators?
15. The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said family structure and what else had a bigger impact than race on how people's lives turned out?
16. Save the Children said that at least 43 children had been killed by armed forces in which country since February?
17. Espionage writer John le Carré served as a British diplomat and an MI5 secret agent, but his son Nicholas Cornwell revealed this week that his father was proud to have died as what?
18. The Queen went on her first official royal engagement in five months when she attended a memorial in Runnymede, Surrey, to mark which organisation's centenary?
19. Wales lifted the Six Nations trophy but just missed out on a Grand Slam. Who was the only team to beat them?
20. Who said on Instagram that she had cried for two weeks after a television documentary was shown and added 'and well .... I still cry sometimes!!!!'
21. A £24,000 bronze statue of who, described as a 'vanity project', was unveiled at the University of Winchester?
22. Which country suffered its first World Cup qualifying defeat in 20 years against North Macedonia?
23. Who revealed in her memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, that a surgeon had increased her breast size without her consent?
24. Nike won a bid to stop art brand MSCHF and rapper Lil Nas X selling a customised version of its Air Max trainers called 'Satan shoes’ which contain what in the sole?
25. Which 25-year-old was revealed to be worth more than £20million in the same week she was nominated for Best Female Solo, Album of the Year and British Single in the Brit Awards?

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