There were some high scores in last week’s newsquiz. Dora Allday was the top solo scorer with a record-breaking 23.5. The top team - Simon, Sue and Will Cole - posted the same score. Other impressive scores came in from Janet Boyle with 20.5, Toby Brown 20, Liz Gerard 19 and Gavin Devine 18. There were also good team scores from Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 22, Maura and Phil Parsons, 21.5, The Roberts Family and Mr and Mrs Penman, 21 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 18.5. I did the quiz in a tapas bar on Friday with Les and Nicky Castell and Ian and Gill McCulloch who scored an above par 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
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1. The Government announced this week that, after a surge of Covid-19 cases, travellers arriving in the UK from Belgium and which other two countries will be forced to quarantine for two weeks? Half a point for each.
2. After Government measures to protect businesses and jobs from Covid-19, the Bank of England predicted that GDP would shrink by what percentage this year … an improvement on the 14 per cent drop it forecast in May?
3. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said all pubs and restaurants had to close from 5pm on Wednesday, barred people from visiting other households indoors and urged residents to avoid non-essential journeys greater than five miles … in which city?
4. Which chain said it was considering closing 67 of its 449 UK restaurants, with the possible loss of 1,100 jobs?
5. A fight between passengers over the wearing of face masks on a KLM flight resulted in two arrests at the plane’s destination on which island?
6. Lebanon’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the cause of an explosion that devastated Beirut, killing more than 130 people, was 2,750 tonnes of what substance?
7. Which banker, a senior executive at Capital Group, was awarded a knighthood for 'political service’?
8. What did Labour shadow minister Jess Phillips say sent 'a terrible message from Westminster’ and public servants union leader Amy Leversidge call 'an astonishing decision’?
9. Douglas Ross, 37, said it was 'the honour and privilege of a lifetime’ to be appointed as what?
10. Which politician, who died this week age 83, is the only person to have received three major peace awards - the Nobel Peace Prize, the Gandhi Peace Prize and the Martin Luther King Award?
11. In Saturday’s 2-1 victory over Chelsea in the FA Cup final who scored both of Arsenal’s goals?
12. What linked Ian Botham, Ruth Davidson, Philip Hammond, former Daily Telegraph editor Charles Moore and the Prime Minister’s brother Jo Johnson this week?
13. Who said she was suffering from 'low-grade depression' because of the pandemic, racial injustice and the hypocrisy of the Trump administration?
14. Who disappeared after writing a letter which said he was leaving 'in the face of the public repercussions that certain past events in my private life are generating' and in the hope of allowing his son to carry out his functions with ‘tranquillity’?
15. Children's book writer James Nash was shot by a gunman, who then died when his motorbike crashed during a police chase, in a remote village in which English county?
16. US President Donald Trump said Microsoft could buy what as long as the sale was completed by September 15 and the treasury received a portion of the deal as payment?
17. The Premier League’s current longest-serving manager left which club by mutual consent?
18. Whose mother accused a police officer of being responsible for her daughter's death during an emotional confrontation at an inquest?
19. Bells tolled, there was a minute's silence at 8.15am on Thursday but other memorial events, including one in Peace Park, were scaled back because of the pandemic? The memorial was to mark the 75th anniversary of what event?
20. F1 driver Lewis Hamilton broke his own record for the number of British Grand Prix victories at Silverstone on Sunday. How many has he won?
21. German carmaker Audi apologised for an advert showing a little girl leaning on the front of a high-performance car while eating what?
22. Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has had his role in helping feed vulnerable children recognised with an appearance on the front cover of which magazine?
23. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge played games at an arcade which was a setting in which TV series … although Prince William admitted he had never seen it?
24. Whose fortune passed $100billion (£76billion) making him only the third person in the world to become a centibillionaire?
25. Due to restrictions in global travel which TV programme will now be filmed in a rural castle in the UK instead of its usual location?
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