There were some cracking scores in last week’s newsquiz. Marc Beyeler’s team (apparently including his wife and their dog Millie) and Maura and Phil Parsons both scored a record-equalling 24. Other good team efforts were Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 22, Simon, Sue and Will Cole 21, the Roberts Family 20, Peter and Stacey and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19. The top solo scorers were Dominic Hurst and Liz Gerard who both posted 21, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 20, Gavin Devine 19, Ed Mortimer 18.5 and Alan Geere 18. 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 your score.
Today's front pages
2. The UK became the fifth country to pass 100,000 Covid-19 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil and which other two countries? Half a point for each.
3. The British Medical Association said that what was ‘difficult to justify’ and should be halved to six weeks?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street news conference that what date was 'the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back’?
5. What did Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon say she was ‘not ecstatic' about?
6. Which one of these countries is NOT on the Government’s newly-announced 'red list’ where returning UK nationals will have to quarantine in Government-provided accommodation?
a) Brazil b) South Africa c) South Korea d) Namibia
7. Thirty-one police officers were each fined £200 after they hired someone to do what at Bethnal Green police station?
8. Germany's vaccine committee, citing insufficient data, said AstraZeneca's Covid jab should only be given to people under what age?
9. Two men who organised what at Woodhouse Moor, Leeds, were fined £10,000 each for a 'blatant breach' of lockdown rules?
10. The Pasteur Institute, in which country, announced it was abandoning its main coronavirus vaccine after disappointing test results?
11. Why did the Government withdraw a social media advert, which featured a drawing of four houses, that urged people to 'Stay Home. Save Lives”
12. More than 180 people were arrested in ten cities in which country as Covid curfew protesters clashed with riot police?
13. Russian police detained more than 3,000 people during protests in support of who?
14. He was estimated to have conducted 50,000 interviews in a six-decade career and was married eight times to seven women. Who was he?
15. US President Joe Biden repealed Donald Trump's ban on who joining the military?
16. Activists, in a tunnel near Euston station protesting against the HS2 rail project, included Dan Hooper who is better known by what nickname?
17. Shares in which failing company soared by more than 700 per cent as the result of a battle between Wall Street and amateur investors?
18. Which online fashion retailer was reported to be in talks to buy the Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Burton brands?
19. The Financial Conduct Authority announced that it was looking at increasing the payment limit for contactless cards from £45 to what amount?
20. During a video chat with a headteacher and parents, what word did the Duchess of Cambridge hold up when asked what described parenting during the pandemic?
21. A video of 21-year-old Nia Dennis doing what racked up more than ten million views and earned praise from celebrities including Michelle Obama and Janet Jackson?
22. What role did 47-year-old German Thomas Tuchel take over this week?
23. Facebook apologised for removing posts that named which area in a UK city that it wrongly identified as an offensive term?
24. Who was forced to withdraw from Dancing On Ice with a fractured shoulder?
25. Netflix announced that what show had become its 'biggest series ever’ with 82 million households tuned-in and becoming Number One in 83 countries?
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