Take a break with the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Dora Allday and Toby Brown with 19, just ahead of Gavin Devine on 18 and Danny Hussain and Liz Gerrard on 17. Top team was the Roberts Family with 23. Simon, Sue and Will Cole scored 22, The Penmans 21, Lou and Joe Williams and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages

1. Figures from the Office for National Statistics this week showed the number of excess deaths in the UK since the coronavirus outbreak began had passed what figure? 

2. Under new Government guidelines which of these will we not be able to do from July 4? a) visit a theme park b) watch a film at a cinema c) get a haircut d) go for a swim at a pool.

3. Wedding ceremonies for up to how many people are allowed to go ahead from July 4?

4. Which town’s council declared ‘a major incident’ saying it was forced to instigate a multi-agency emergency response to tackle issues ranging from overcrowding on the beaches, traffic gridlock and violence. 

5. Who tested positive for Covid-19 and then apologised, saying: 'I am so deeply sorry our tournament has caused harm’?

6. Care Minister Helen Whately found herself in the headlines for saying which group of people 'are not deemed to be providing a service’?

7. Khairi Saadallah, 25, who was arrested following the stabbing to death of three men in a park in Reading, is a national of which country?
8. What was the name of the park in Reading where three men were stabbed to death?

9. Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions on Thursday night - their first top-flight title since what year?
10. Why was 24-year-old Jake Hepple dismissed from his role as a welder at Lancashire-based Paradigm Precision?

11. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick came under pressure to resign after for his role in a controversial £1billion development that was proposed by which Conservative Party donor?

12. A father and his two children was killed after being hit by a car while out for a Father’s Day walk with their dog in which county?
13. Why was the Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield stripped of its licence? 
14. What was the name of the 34-year-old jockey, who rode 100-1 shot Mon Mome to win the 2009 Grand National, who died this week?
15. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from which shadow cabinet position, saying she shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy?

16. Which Conservative MP issued a personal statement saying: 'Unfortunately I have been diagnosed with breast cancer’?

17. What is the name of the company, that owns shopping centres including Manchester's Trafford Centre and Lakeside in Essex, which said it was likely to call in administrators after failing to agree a financial restructuring plan?

18. Rose Paterson, who died aged 63, was married to Conservative MP Owen Paterson and was chairman of which racecourse?

19. Thursday was officially the hottest day of the year with the Met Office saying temperatures exceeded how many degrees at Heathrow Airport?

20. Film producer Steve Bing, 55, who was found dead in Los Angeles, was the father to which actress’s 18-year-old son?

21. Which song, believed to have been written by Wallace Willis who was a slave in southern America, is under review at sporting stadiums?

22. Which vehicle, that launched in 2001 and promised to revolutionise personal transport, will come to the end of the road when production stops on July 15?

23. Manchester United became the first team in the Premier League to do what in their game against Sheffield United?

24. Hospital consultant Clare Bradley collected what title this week?
25. Netflix tweeted to say that 'exactly 20 years to the day since the original was released’ there would be a sequel to what animated film, with production beginning in 2021?

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