Give the newsquiz a go

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 20. The highest scoring team was Simon, Will and Sue Cole with 22. Peter Gunthorpe and Stacey Pierson, Bruce and Sarah Hayward, Phil and Maura Parsons and The Roberts Family all scored 21. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and The Penmans clocked up 18. 

If you enjoy this weekly quiz you might be interested in joining me in the Journalists’ Charity’s Christmas newsquiz of the year next Thursday. There are prizes and, more importantly, you can join the hall of fame. There is no entry fee but if you fancy making a donation to the charity it would be appreciated. It should be fun. You can register here. Below is this week’s quiz, as usual 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

A range of today's front pages

1. Boris Johnson said of his efforts to secure a last-ditch Brexit deal with the EU: 'I will go to Brussels, I will go to ___, I will go to ___, I will go to wherever to try and get this home and get a deal’. What are the two missing cities? Half a point for each. 

2. Grandmother Margaret Keenan, 90, was the first person to be given a Covid-19 vaccine  … what was the name of the second person?
3. Sales of a University Hospitals charity T-shirt worn by Margaret Keenan, the first person to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, tripled since its moment in the spotlight. What creature featured on her top? 

4. UK's medical regulators, the MHRA, said people with a history of ‘significant’ what should not have the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid jab after two NHS workers had side effects?

5. The UK was the first country to approve Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, followed by Bahrain. Which country was third? 

6. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that from Saturday morning travellers returning to the UK from where must self-isolate for two weeks because of rising infection rates?

7. Broadcaster Kay Burley apologised for breaking Tier 2 lockdown restrictions when she celebrated what event with colleagues? 

8. Labour MP Chris Bryant is to escape action despite claims he mimed what two-word phrase at Speaker Lindsay Hoyle during Prime Minster’s Questions?

9. A report that looked at 250 cases of stillbirths, brain damage and deaths of babies and mothers at which hospital trust said 'urgent action' was needed to improve safety?

10. Asda joined M&S, Waitrose, John Lewis and Aldi to announce it would be doing what over the Christmas break?

11. What is the name of the rugby player who is taking legal action against the game's authorities after being diagnosed with dementia and saying he could not remember winning the World Cup with England in 2003?

12. How was Barbara Deeks from Shoreditch better known?

13. Which two people were named Time Magazine's Persons Of The Year? Half a point for each.

14. Joe Anderson, the mayor of which city, announced he was to step aside after he was arrested during investigations into allegations of bribery and witness intimidation?

15. American federal regulators and more than 45 state prosecutors are taking legal action aimed at breaking up which company, arguing that no firm 'should have this much unchecked power’?

16. After being booed by fans for taking the knee, Millwall FC instructed its players to do what instead before Tuesday’s Championship game against QPR?

17. Former Leeds Rhinos and England captain Kevin Sinfield raised more than £1.5million, to support his colleague Rob Burrow who has motor neurone disease, by doing what?

18. Street artist Banksy confirmed on his website that an image of a woman sprayed on a house in Bristol was his work and was called what?

19. Who announced his retirement by saying: 'As someone in his 77th year who will be in his 10th year hosting the great British institution ... I think it's time to smell the flowers and get a dog’?

20. Who revealed he had been taken to hospital with pancreatitis after losing nearly 30 pounds 'too fast' for his role in his latest film The Midnight Sky?

21. What was sent into space to celebrate the career of David Bowie?

22. What was officially announced to be 0.86 metres higher than it had been previously calculated?

23. Who sold his entire catalogue of 600 songs to Universal Music in a deal believed to be worth more than $300million (£225million)?
24. Mahalia, Headie One and Nines all collected what this week?

25. Coronation Street marked its 60th anniversary episode by having which of its characters fall to his death from the roof of a burning house?

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