It's time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Hannah Tomes with 17, just ahead of Katie Jenkins on 16. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with an impressive 22. Simon, Sue and Will Cole scored 20, Maura and Phil Parsons 19.5 and Three Legs drinkers Peter and Stacey 19. 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. 

The US election dominates today's front pages

1. What is the minimum number of electoral votes required by the two US presidential candidates to secure the seat in the White House?
2. US President Donald Trump's legal team asked for a recount in Wisconsin and threatened to take legal action in Pennsylvania, Michigan and which other two states? Half a point for each.
3. Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani gave a press conference in Philadelphia about election fraud, saying that Joe Biden could have voted 5,000 times and adding ‘we’re going to have a look at how many ___ people have voted here, too’. What is the missing word?
4. Who reacted to Donald Trump's ’Stop the Count’ tweet by saying: 'So ridiculous. Donald must work on his Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Donald, Chill!’?

5. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the Government will extend the furlough scheme until the end of which month?
6. Chief scientific advisor Sir Patrick Vallance told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee that he had 'regrets' over frightening people with a forecast that there could be how many Covid-19 deaths a day over the winter?
7. Parliament backed the four-week lockdown in England with a majority of 478 but how many MPs voted against it?
8. Boris Johnson walked out of the Commons just as his predecessor Theresa May gave a speech saying: ‘I hate the term circuit breaker. It is a euphemism that is appalling. It is not a circuit breaker, it is a ___ breaker’. What is the missing word?
9. People in which city are to be offered regular Covid-19 tests whether or not they have symptoms?
10. Which two European countries were added to the UK's travel quarantine 'red list’ this week? Half a point for each.
11. Which retailer recorded its first loss in its 94 years as a publicly-listed company, recording a deficit of £87.6million in the six months to September 26?
12. Who reportedly did not tell anyone about his positive coronavirus test result because 'there were important things going on and I didn't want to worry anyone’?
13. Sainsbury's said it was to cut 3,500 jobs with the closure of 420 standalone stores that it bought in 2016. What are the standalone stores called?
14. Four people were killed and 23 others wounded in a gun attack in which European city?
15. Following recent killings in Europe, the UK's terrorism threat level was upgraded from ‘substantial' to what category, meaning security chiefs believe an attack is highly likely?
16. The Brexit Party formally applied to the Electoral Commission to change its name to what?
17. A High Court judge, who dismissed Johnny Depp’s defamation case against The Sun, ruled that the actor had beaten his ex-wife Amber Heard how many times?
18. Nobby Stiles died aged 76 and Sir Bobby Charlton was diagnosed with dementia. Along with hat-trick scorer Geoff Hurst, Charlton is one of only four players from England’s World Cup winning team of 1966 who are still alive. Name the other two. Half a point for each.
19. Denmark said that up to 17 million of what animals are to be culled after finding a mutated version of coronavirus that can spread to humans?
20. Why was three-year-old Ayda Gezgin in the headlines?
21. Why was 73-year-old retired nurse Ylenia Angeli arrested, and later 'de-arrested’, by Humberside police?
22. Sean Connery, who died aged 90, was best known as James Bond but won an Oscar for best Supporting Actor in 1988 for which film?
23. England won the Six Nations Championship at the weekend despite losing their first game back in February to which country?
24. Beverley Callard, 63, who played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street for 31 years, will be the oldest person to be doing what later this month?
25. Who was the first celebrity to be voted off the current series of Strictly Come Dancing?

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