Test yourself with this week's newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Gavin Devine with 19 followed by Phil Lambell with 18, Janet Boyle and Liz Gerard 17, Toby Brown 16 and Nick Turner 15. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 23, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons 21, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and the Roberts Family who both scored 19, Sarah and Bruce Hayward 17 and Peter and Stacey 16. 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

1. On Wednesday the UK announced how many Covid-19 deaths - the highest since the pandemic began?

2. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that arrivals from South America and which European country would be banned from 4am today (Friday) over concerns about the Brazilian coronavirus variant?

3. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was criticised after being spotted cycling where, seven miles from Downing Street, during lockdown?

4. Which police force rescinded £200 fines and apologised to Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore after earlier describing their walk as 'not in the spirit of the national effort’ to reduce travel?

5. Buckingham Palace confirmed that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh received Covid-19 vaccinations at which location?

6. Why was the Priory Campus coronavirus vaccination centre in Barnsley closed?

7. Royal Mail published a list of how many places across the UK that were no longer receiving regular post because staff had contracted coronavirus or were self-isolating?

8. Which airline axed its long-haul routes, and said it would operate with a 'simplified business structure’, resulting in the loss of 1,100 pilot and cabin crew jobs at Gatwick Airport?
9. Whose plans to fly to Melbourne were thrown into disarray after testing positive for coronavirus and having to isolate at home?

10. Premier League chief executive Richard Masters wrote to remind clubs that Covid rules must be adhered to and that 'handshakes, high fives and ___ must be avoided’. What is the missing word?

11. Home Secretary Priti Patel described the free schools food package from which company as an 'appalling display' that was 'totally unacceptable’?

12. In a new scheme, people at risk of domestic abuse during lockdown will be able to seek help discreetly by giving what code word to pharmacists?

13. How many Republicans joined the Democrats in the House of Representatives and voted for impeachment, charging outgoing US President Donald Trump with 'incitement of insurrection’?

14. The Leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg, commenting on hold-ups in the seafood industry caused by Brexit, told Parliament: ‘They’re now ___ fish and they’re better and happier fish for it.’ What is the missing word?

15. A Sriwijaya Air jetliner carrying 62 people crashed shortly after taking off from which city’s airport?

16. Richard Leonard resigned from which political position saying that constant attacks were undermining his party's ability to 'get its message across’?
17. Sir David Barclay, who died aged 86, co-owned which newspaper group with his identical twin brother Frederick?

18. Why was American Lisa Montgomery, 52, in the headlines?
19. James Howells asked Newport council to let him search a landfill site after he threw away a laptop hard drive which he claimed contained what?

20. The true-story of serial killer John Cooper, and how he was identified after appearing on which television game show, was told in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders?

21. Which magazine defended its 'body-positive’ front cover after critics accused it of promoting obesity?

22. There were fears that Queen Merlina may have died after she went missing from where?

23. Which League 2 football team beat Premier League side Leeds United to line-up a fourth round game against Championship team Bournemouth?

24. The Duchess of York’s debut novel, Her Heart for a Compass, is to be published by which company?

25. The television programme Sex And The City is being revived, with the name And Just Like That, but without which of its original leading actresses?

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