Here's this week's newsquiz ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Liz Gerard with 20. There was then a host of people on 19 including Janet Boyle, Hannah Tomes, Sam Neve, Etan Smallman, Andy Bounds and Dora Allday. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 23, narrowly ahead of Simon, Sue and Will Cole on 22, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 21 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Wednesday's front pages

1. The Government announced that face coverings will need to be worn inside shops in England by customers from what date?
2. Two cabinet ministers, one wearing a mask and the other not, were photographed in Pret A Manger on Tuesday and prompted accusations that the Government was in a 'complete muddle’ over compulsory face coverings. Name the two ministers.

3. A report by doctors and scientists, convened by the Academy of Medical Sciences, said Britain must start 'intense preparations' for a second wave of coronavirus that has the potential to kill up to how many people in a worst case scenario?

4. Which town brought in extra restrictions on Tuesday, in a bid to avoid a Leicester-style lockdown, following a spike in coronavirus infections?

5. Why was fast bowler Jofra Archer excluded from England's second Test against the West Indies in Manchester?

6. British Airways announced it was to immediately retire its entire fleet of what type of plane as a result of the pandemic causing a downturn in global travel?

7. MP Julian Lewis was kicked out of the parliamentary Conservative Party and accused of ‘duplicitous behaviour’ after he was appointed to chair what committee?
8. Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the Commons that mobile providers were to be banned from buying new Huawei 5G equipment and must remove all the Chinese firm's 5G kit from their networks by what year?

9. England World Cup winning footballer Jack Charlton, who died age 85, was born in which Northumberland town?
10. Where did Jen Reid appear - only to disappear 24 hours later?
11. A Ryanair flight from where to Dublin was forced to land at Stansted Airport after a note was discovered in a toilet claiming there were explosives on board?

12. Benjamin Keough, 27, who was found dead from shotgun wounds in California was the only grandson of whom?

13. Manchester City’s two-year ban from the Champions League for breaching financial fair play rules was overturned by the court of arbitration for sport, which also reduced the club’s fine from €30million to how much?

14. A 12-year-old boy from Solihul was arrested, and later released, over racist messages sent to which Premier League footballer?

15. Who tweeted this morning (Friday): 'Good Morning! Ready and raring to go for what is a very special day. Thank you for all the well wishes, as ever, overwhelmed by your support. #todaywillbeagoodday'?

16. Socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was denied bail, while waiting trial for her alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking, following arguments in which prosecutors said she was an 'extreme risk of ___’. What is the missing word?

17. The hacked twitter accounts of US figures including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West and Bill Gates asked people to send $1,000 Bitcoins and get what in return?

18. How did Tony Holmes, 49, from Newcastle and Antonio Gonzalez, 43, of Marbella die?

19. What was the name of the 57-year-old actress, who appeared in the films Jerry Maguire and Twins and was married to John Travolta, who died this week?

20. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre said hackers 'almost certainly part of Russian intelligence services’ were targeting organisations that were doing what in the UK, US and Canada?

21. The Court of Appeal said this week that ‘fairness and justice must outweigh national security concerns’ and ruled that who had been denied a fair hearing and should be allowed to return to the UK?

22. The BBC announced 520 job cuts and said that which eponymous show would not be returning to the screen?
23. A gravestone for a black labrador belonging to which war hero was removed from a base at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire because of its racist name? 

24. The Queen – the nation’s longest serving monarch – will celebrate being on the throne for how many days tomorrow (Saturday)?

25. The Duchess of Cambridge, at the launch of which BBC initiative for children aged four and under, said there was 'a massive gap’ in support given to parents after the first few months of a child's life? 

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