Been paying attention? Here's the newsquiz ...

There were some cracking scores in last week's newsquiz. Two teams equalled the best ever newsquiz score of 23. They were Thom, Sam, Shannon and Harry and the Roberts Family. The Penmans scored 22, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 21.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 19. The top solo scorer was Paul Bowen with 21.5, just ahead of Lewis Steele and Liz Gerrard who both scored 21. Tom Savage, Janet Boyle and Georgia Simcox all scored 19 and Toby Brown 18. 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. 

Thursday's front pages

1. Official Government advice issued this week said: 'Your employer might be able to keep you on the payroll if they’re unable to operate or have no work for you to do because of coronavirus (COVID-19). This is known as being ‘on ____’.
What is the missing word?

2. Health secretary Matt Hancock set the Government a new target of carrying out how many Covid-19 tests a day by the end of April?

3. Habib Zaidi, 76, Alfa Saadu, 68, Adil el Tayar, 63, and Amged el-Hawrani, 55,  who died from Coronavirus, had what else in common?

4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent a letter to 30 million houses which finished with the sentence: 'That is why, at this moment of national emergency, I urge you, please, to stay at home, protect the NHS and ___ ___'. What are the two missing words?

5. Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab was believed to be the UK’s youngest coronavirus victim when he died alone in London’s King’s College. How old was he?

6. Which MP was ticked off by police for ‘non-essential travel’ when he visited his father on his 78th birthday?

7.  According to the latest figures from John Hopkins University the number of registered cases of coronavirus reached which global milestone on Thursday? 

8. Which Western European country chose not to go into lockdown with its PM urging citizens to behave 'as adults' and not to spread 'panic or rumours’?

9. Who was fined £150,000 and apologised after going round a friend's house during the lockdown and crashing his Range Rover into parked cars?

10. What did Prince Charles call 'an intensely practical message of hope to those who need it most at this time of national suffering'? 

11. Derbyshire police came under fire for putting what into the 'Blue Lagoon' in Buxton to deter swimmers?
12. Princess Maria Teresa of which country’s royal family died aged 86 after testing positive for coronavirus?

13. The owners of which app said it was 'investigating indications that the recent hacking rumours were spread by a paid commercial smear campaign' and offered a $1million (£810,000) bounty for proof?

14. A herd of Kashmiri goats took over which deserted town centre, eating hedges and flowers from gardens?

15. The NHS has asked people to stop sending what in the post to the new Nightingale London Hospital?

16. Which country's Premier League signed broadcasting deals with sports networks in ten countries, including Russia, Israel and India, as it is the only major football league still playing in Europe?

17. World super-middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders had his boxing licence suspended following a social media post in which he demonstrated how to do what?

18. The Labour MP for Bassetlaw for 33 years, who was also a newspaper columnist, author, holder of an OBE and director of Sheffield Wednesday Football Club, died aged 86. Name him.

19. Why was the West Sussex village of Woodmancote in the headlines?

20. Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring, a painting with an estimated value of £5million, was stolen from the Singer Laren museum in Holland. Who is the artist?

21. Bob Weighton was presented with a Guinness World Records certificate for being the world’s oldest man while celebrating what birthday in isolation at a care home in Hampshire?
22. Edward Hugh McGinnis, who died of coronavirus aged 78 this week, was better known by which name?

23. Which Scottish actor donated £275,000 to equip doctors and nurses with protective equipment and applied to be an NHS volunteer?

24. What annual event will take place as usual tomorrow (Saturday) but using computer generated imaging  – with proceeds going towards the fight against Covid-19?

25. Who said he was ‘not sure what all the fuss is about’ after he announced that he is to become a father for the fourth time at the age of 89?

Answers here