The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 22 and the top team was the Roberts Family with 23.5. Well played to them ... always consistently high scorers. Other good solo scorers were Toby Brown on 21, Liz Gerard 19, and Georgia Simcox and Paul Bowen who both scored 17. There were strong team efforts from Sam, Thom, Harry and Shannon 22, Phil and Maura Parsons 21, and Richard, Danny, Barney, Pascal and Matt who scored 19. 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 your score.
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1. As part of VE commemorations today (Friday) the Red Arrows flew over London, RAF Typhoon jets performed flypasts over Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast and Spitfires flew over where?
2. What is the name of the scientist, who advised the Government on lockdown, who resigned after he breached restrictions to meet his married lover?
3. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said an NHS coronavirus contact tracing app would be trialled in which part of the UK ahead of a nationwide rollout?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told how doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital treating him for coronavirus had a strategy to deal with a ‘death of ___ -type scenario’. What is the missing name?
5. The deaths of nine military veterans from coronavirus were announced a day before the 75th anniversary of VE Day by which hospital?
6. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told a coronavirus media briefing this week that ‘emerging data from around the world suggests there could possibly be a relationship between ___ and the impact of Covid-19 on individuals’. What is the missing word?
7. Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, said that a PPE shipment from Turkey included 400,000 of what items that were not used by the NHS as they fell short of UK standards?
8. The UK's newest NHS Nightingale hospital opened in which city less than 24 hours after the one in London was mothballed?
9. Shadow mental health minister Rosena Allin-Khan, an A&E doctor, was advised in the Commons by Health Secretary Matt Hancock about what after she asked a question about testing?
10. Which country announced that masks would be compulsory for public transport passengers from last Monday, with the government saying it would distribute six million masks at transport locations and give another seven million to local authorities?
11. Virgin Atlantic announced plans to cut more than 3,000 jobs and shut its operations at which airport?
12. A new Banksy artwork showing a young boy who had discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of an NHS nurse, appeared at a hospital in which city?
13. Which European country decided that top flight football would restart on May 15?
14. Who announced 'the agonising decision' that he would not be standing as a candidate for Mayor of London after the coronavirus crisis forced a year's delay?
15. To mark Princess Charlotte’s fifth birthday, Kensington Palace released pictures of her helping her parents to deliver what food to vulnerable Norfolk residents?
16. UK hip-hop star with the real name Ben Chijioke, who was nominated for the Mercury prize for his album Upwards, died age 47 after contracting coronavirus. What was his stage name?
17. Keyboard player Dave Greenfield, who died of coronavirus age 71, wrote the Stranglers' biggest hit which reached Number 2 in the UK charts in 1982. What was it called?
18. Carrie Symonds introduced her baby on Instagram and announced his three forenames - Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas. She said Wilfred was after Boris Johnson's grandfather but where did the names Lawrie and Nicholas come from? Half a point for each.
19. How was businessman Ralph Jump, 57, killed and his two adult children injured near Usk in Monmouthshire?
20. A 29-year-old woman appeared in court charged with murdering an 88-year-old man in which supermarket in Penygraig, Rhondda, on Tuesday afternoon?
21. Which two brands announced plans to merge to create a new £31billion media and telecoms giant? Half a point for each.
22. Tara Reade, 56, gave an on-camera interview this week in the US and told how she had been pinned against a wall and sexually abused by who while at work?
23. What is the title of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s biography which promises to provide an 'up-close portrait' on the couple and tell the 'true story’?
24. Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk and singer Grimes named their baby son X Æ A-12 and explained that the A-12 part of the name was a type of CIA aircraft known as what?
25. Who became the oldest person to be the cover star of fashion magazine Vogue in its history?
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