Archie wins the newsquiz again

The Daily Mail trainees had another busy week in London. They rewrote articles from the wire and pitched news stories and travel ideas. They enjoyed sessions by assistant editor (politics) Simon Walters, consultant editor Andrew Pierce, executive news-editor Amy Iggulden and chief reporter Sam Greenhill. The subs went through the art of features sub-editing with Felix Duckworth and the reporters were taught the tricks of the reporting trade by Christian Gysin. There was a day with the Mail’s legal team and editor emeritus Peter Wright went through the Editor’s Code in detail. We finished the week as always with the newsquiz. The winner (again) this week was Archie Mitchell with 21, narrowly ahead of Sam Merriman on 20 and Elliot Mulligan and Henry Jones on 19.5. Alex Jennings and Harry Jones both scored 19. The top online solo score last week was Janet Boyle with 18 and the top team was the Roberts Family with 21. Nobody online scored higher than Archie’s 22. 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 how you get on. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. Doctors said Donald Trump was more at risk from coronavirus than wife Melania because he is male, overweight and because of their ages. What is the age difference? 
2. What is the name of the aide that was in the presidential debate conference room with Donald Trump, and travelled with him on Air Force One, who tested positive for Covid-19 before the First Couple?
3. Why did the Scottish National Party suspend MP Margaret Ferrier?
4. Who said the Government was treating Parliament with ‘contempt' by rushing through powers to tackle coronavirus without debate and that he was 'now looking to the Government to rebuild trust with the House’?
5. After giving a garbled response, when asked whether people in the North-East would be able to meet other households outside in a pub garden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: 'Apologies, I ___ today.’ What is the missing word?
6. Video footage showed at least 200 students breaching lockdown rules by climbing on top of ping pong tables and raving at Arundel House, an accommodation block, at which university?
7. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced this week that which two countries were being added to the Government's travel quarantine 'red list’? Half a point each.
8. Which town’s mayor vowed to defy the Government's lockdown to protect the 'jobs and mental health' of residents?

9. Why was Amy Coney Barrett in the headlines?

10. Sergeant Matt Ratana, who was shot dead in a police station in Croydon, was described by the rugby club where he was head coach as 'an irreplaceable figure’. Name the club.
11. What is the name of the MP for Leicester East who was suspended from the Labour party after being charged with harassment of a woman for nearly two years?
12. Former Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre and former editor of the Daily Telegraph Charles Moore were reported to have been asked by Boris Johnson to take over as the chairmen of which two organisations? Half point for each.
13. Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced each other in the first presidential debate on Tuesday night which was held in which American city? 
14. What is the name of the white supremacist group that Donald Trump said, during the presidential debate, should 'stand back and stand by’?
15. According to a report in the New York Times how much, in dollars, did President Donald Trump pay in income taxes in both 2016 and 2017?
16. Ireland's Supreme Court ruled that the rolls used in which company’s hot sandwiches contained too much sugar to be considered bread?
17. What is the name of the storm that is bringing gales and lashing rain to Britain this weekend?
18. Football manager Steve Bruce said ‘we have lost the plot’, Roy Hodgson said it was ‘nonsense’ and pundit Jamie Carragher said it was 'an absolute joke’. What were they talking about?
19. Which country backed down after initially demanding the return of a fossilised giant shark's tooth given to Prince George by Sir David Attenborough?
20. What did inventor Richard Browning put through its paces on the Langdale Pikes in the Lake District?
21. A survey by Perspectus Global listed 20 words that were unfamiliar to 18-30 year olds. Top of the list was which word, originally meaning to pickle in a liquid, that 40 per cent of those surveyed did not know?

22. Which musician topped the Forbes World's Highest Paid Celebs of 2020 list with earnings of £131million?

23. Dame Jenni Murray finished her final shift on Woman’s Hour, after 33 years, by playing a song called I Am Woman by which singer who died this week?
24. Why were grey parrots Billy, Elsie, Eric, Jade and Tyson separated at Lincolnshire Wildlife Park’s colony?
25. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow posted a naked picture on Instagram saying she was ‘in nothing but my birthday suit today’ to celebrate her birthday? How old is she?

Answers here