Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 19.5, narrowly ahead of Dora Allday on 19. The top team was The Roberts Family with 20. Many of you said it was harder than usual and the top scores reflected that. Toby Brown scored 17, Liz Gerard posted a below-par 15, Hannah Tomes blamed a week’s holiday for her 14. The Penmans scored 17, Peter and Stacey from the Three Legs and Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 16, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 15.5 and Maura and Phil Parsons 15. Here is this week’s quiz, a little easier I hope. 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. From midnight on Thursday people from different households in the North were banned from meeting each other inside their homes following a spike in Covid cases. Three areas in West Yorkshire were covered by the ban including Calderdale and which other two council areas. Half a point for each.

2. Which Cabinet minister cut short his Spanish holiday and flew back to the UK for 14 days of quarantine?

3. What is the name of Spain's prime minister who found himself in a diplomatic row with Britain, saying that it made a mistake in slapping a quarantine on people travelling from his country?

4. Which other European country, apart from Spain, was taken off the UK’s quarantine-free list from today (Friday) with people arriving having to isolate for 14 days? 

5. John Holland-Kaye, the chief executive of what organisation, said the UK government must urgently introduce passenger testing or face playing a game of 'quarantine roulette’?

6. The Government website offering free vouchers for what crashed at its launch?

7. The Animal Plant Health Laboratory in Weybridge confirmed that what animal had been infected with Covid-19 - believed to be the first in the UK?

8. Which celebrity had a post about a coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory, which she shared with her 15 million followers, censured by Instagram?

9. Which company announced it was ramping up its online grocery service, aiming to serve millions of shoppers across the UK by the end of the year?

10. A consortium, led by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, pulled out of a £300million deal to buy which Premier League football club?
11. There was a political reaction in America after President Donald Trump suggested the November elections should be delayed because he doesn’t trust what?

12. A report by a Lancet Commission found that 12 factors including excessive drinking, air-pollution and head injuries could be responsible for what disease?

13. Hollywood actress Olivia De Havilland, star of Gone With The Wind among many other movies, died this week. How old was she?

14. In an open letter Lissie Harper asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel for what?

15. Why was British-Australian university lecturer Kylie Moore-Gilbert in the headlines?

16. Who was permanently banned from Twitter, following a 48-hour boycott by many users, for posting anti-Semitic remarks?

17. German police searched allotments on the outskirts of which city in connection with their investigation of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann?

18. Leeds United and West Bromich Albion will be joined in next season’s Premier League by one other team after next week’s Championship play off final between which two sides?

19. Henry Dimbleby, who is spearheading the National Food Strategy, said Marks & Spencer was being 'genuinely misleading' over which of its products?

20. Stuart Broad became the second English bowler to take how many Test wickets?
21. Peter Green, who died age 73, was the founding member of which 1960s blues band?

22. Domino's Pizza in New Zealand dropped a promotion offering free pizza to women named what after it was met with a criticism?

23. After 48 years which company’s 'laminated book of dreams' will no longer be printed and only be available online after January?

24. What is the name of the book by royal reporters Carolyn Durand and Omid Scobie that was in the headlines this week for its claims of a deepening rift between the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Buckingham Palace?

25. The Princess Royal said she hated fly-tipping, loved her Gloucester Old Spot pigs and has an HGV licence when she guest-edited which magazine to mark her 70th birthday?

Answers here