Give this week's newsquiz a go

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Yvonne Ridley with an impressive 23, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 22. The top team was Richard, Danny and Barney also with 23 just pipping The Roberts Family on 22. Neil and Jo Benson scored 20 as did Sam, Thom, Shannon and Harry and Maura and Phil Parsons. Pete and Heather Clifton scored 19.5. Here’s 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 … and stay safe. 

Today's front pages

1. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Downing Street briefing on Tuesday that a vaccine developed by which university would be trialled on people from 'this Thursday' (yesterday)?

2. MPs returned to a semi-digital Parliament after the Easter recess but with only ___ able to take part using Zoom and a maximum of ___ in the Commons chamber. What are the two missing numbers? Half a point for each.

3. Who said, in a document called Looking Beyond Lockdown, that: 'We want to ease restrictions but we cannot rule out having to reapply them should the virus run out of control’?

4. The Government published a 2,000-word rebuttal to an article published in which newspaper that claimed the UK had 'lost a crucial five weeks' to tackle the coronavirus threat and that Boris Johnson missed five key COBRA meetings?

5. You’ll Never Walk Alone by Captain Tom Moore and Michael Ball was heading to No 1 in the charts. It has reached the top spot twice before. The first was by Gerry and the Pacemakers and the second, in 1985, by The Crowd to raise money for the families of which disaster?

6. Captain Tom Moore virtually opened a new Nightingale hospital in which town?

7. Which UK brand made more than 900 people redundant on Tuesday, telling them they would not be paid more than three weeks of salary ... and then wrote to them the next day to tell them of a change of heart?

8. Two celebrity millionaires came under fire ... one for furloughing 25 fashion workers and the other for asking the UK Government for a £500million bailout and a further a £700million from Australia. Name them both? Half a point for each.

9. Protective medical equipment arrived on a delayed plane at Brize Norton from which country?

10. The prices of what product turned negative for the first time in history on Monday meaning that producers were paying buyers to take it off their hands?
11. Which footballer donated £500,000 to NHS Wales and €500,000 to hospitals in Spain?
12. Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan’s interview with which Government minister resulted in 2,000 people complaining to Ofcom?

13. Which insurance company announced it was giving a £25 refund to customers as cars and vans are sitting idle during the pandemic?

14. What was war veteran Ken Benbow, 94, given by 17-year-old carer Kia Tobin at a Preston care home?

15. Who came out of retirement with an online statement saying: 'As we approach World Immunisation Week, I wanted to recognise the vital and urgent work being done by so many to tackle the pandemic; by those in the medical and scientific professions, at universities and research institutions, all united in working to protect us from Covid-19'?

16. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary said in-flight social distancing proposals were ‘idiotic’ and insisted his planes would not fly with an empty what?

17. Stephen Fry recreated his Blackadder role as Lord Melchett to take a Zoom call with whom in a sketch for The Big Night In coronavirus fundraiser?

18. Gunman Gabriel Wortman, 51, who killed 22 people in a rampage in Canada, worked as what?

19. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that all Canadians stood with the victims of the gunman who killed 22 people and added: 'This week, we are all ___ ___’ What are the two missing words?

20. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex sent a letter to the editors of which four daily UK newspapers saying they would not respond to any inquiries from their journalists and there would be a policy of 'zero engagement’. Half a point for three papers, one point for all four.

21. Bev Priestman, Emma Hayes, Jill Ellis and Casey Stoney emerged as early frontrunners to take over which job?
22. The gun salutes to mark the Queen's birthday on Tuesday were cancelled. How old was she?

23. Ronan O’Rahilly, who died aged 79, founded which radio station?
24. Elon Musk's rocket firm SpaceX launched dozens of satellites, that go by what name, which were seen streaming across the night sky on Wednesday?

25. Joiner Ryan Hoyle from near Rochdale had to celebrate on his own after scooping how much, to the nearest million pounds, on the EuroMillions jackpot?

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