The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Gavin Devine with 20, followed by Toby Brown 19, Janet Boyle 18.5, Liz Gerard 18, Dominic Hurst 17.5 and Jaymes Bryla 16. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 23. The Roberts Family scored 21, Maura and Phil Parsons 20.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 20 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. 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
2. What did Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describe as an 'empty threat’, former Attorney-General Dominic Grieve say was 'disproportionate’ and ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption say showed a lost 'connection with reality’?
3. Public Health England said there was a 'high degree of confidence' that vaccines would work against two new variants of Covid found in which UK cities? Half a point for each.
4. Office for National Statistics data released this week showed that nearly six out of every ten people who died with coronavirus, 30,296 of 50,888, in England last year were what?
5. The vaccination of a 76-year-old man caused an angry reaction including from West Yorkshire's police chairman, who said it was 'a kick in the teeth’, and TV personality Nicola McLean who said 'I'd give him a lethal injection’ instead. Who were they referring to?
6. The Office for National Statistics announced that the UK economy shrank by a record amount last year as coronavirus restrictions hit output. By what per cent did it fall?
7. Jamie Raskin, the lead manager in the US impeachment trial, said: 'Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander-in-chief and became the ___ in-chief.' What is the missing word?
8. Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of which sports retailer, said red tape in shipping goods to Europe after Brexit was costing 'double-digit millions’ and it will probably move 1,000 UK-based jobs to the continent?
9. Butcher Pawel Relowicz, who prowled the streets looking for victims in which city, was found guilty of murdering and raping student Libby Squire?
10. The Met Office said what temperature, in Braemar in Scotland on Wednesday night, was the coldest recorded in the UK since 1995?
11. Which Canadian actor, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor in 2012 for the film Beginners, died aged 91 after falling and hitting his head?
12. Who became the first Arab nation to put a spaceship, called Hope, in orbit around Mars?
13. A High Court judge granted a summary judgment in favour of the Duchess of Sussex over which newspaper’s publication of extracts of a letter to her father?
14. The news that which company had bought $1.5billion (£1.1billion) Bitcoins caused the price of the cryptocurrency to jump 17 per cent to a record high?
15. A legal fight headed back to a Los Angeles court yesterday, days after a New York Times-produced documentary called Framing ___ ___ questioned a previous judgment. What is the missing name?
16. Tom Brady, known as the NFL GOAT, won his seventh Super Bowl when Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. What does GOAT stand for?
17. Which media outlet was banned by China, who claimed it was not 'truthful and fair’ and had harmed Chinese interests and undermined national unity?
18. Which former world heavyweight champion, who beat Muhammad Ali in his eighth professional fight, died aged 67?
19. Mary Wilson, who died aged 76, was a founding member of The Supremes who had 12 Number Ones in the US but only one in Britain. Name it.
20. What was accidentally leaked when Downing Street shared pictures of Dilyn the dog on Flickr?
21. A study by Zhejiang University in China suggested that eating what every day increased the risk of dying by 14 per cent?
22. Princess Eugenie's baby son, born on Tuesday, is 11th in line to the throne, nudging which royal down to 12?
23. Scotland’s rugby team beat England at Twickenham for the first time since what year? (Clue: Michael Jackson was at No 1 with Billie Jean, CDs went on sale for the first time and a call for a miners' strike was rejected by NUM members).
24. Texas lawyer Rod Ponton went viral after telling a judge during a Zoom meeting 'I'm here live, I'm not a ___.’ What is the missing word?
25. Samira Ahmed, Richard Osman and Naga Munchetty were listed by bookmakers as the favourites to take over which role?
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