Two teams, the Roberts Family and Simon, Sue and Will Cole, scored a record-equalling 24 in last week’s newsquiz. Other good team efforts included Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Rob Lawrence and Robert Rea who both scored 21. Next came Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 20 and Stacey and Peter with 19. The top solo scorer was Blaise Tapp with 21, followed by Liz Gerard and Phil Lambell both on 20, Janet Boyle and Alan Geere 19, Nicola Lawrence, Gavin Devine, Toby Brown and Nick Turner who all scored 18. Amanda Kitson, smashing the Udimore village record, and Jayme Bryla both scored 17. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
The Sussex's dominate Tuesday's front pages
1. Following Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Buckingham Palace issued a statement that said ‘while some ___ may vary, they are taken very seriously.’ What is the missing word?
2. In the interview Meghan said she and Harry had a secret marriage ceremony, three days before their royal wedding, with who in their ‘backyard’?
3. Who was the first member of the Royal family to personally comment on the Oprah Winfrey interview by insisting: 'We're very much not a racist family’?
4. In the two-hour documentary, Oprah Winfrey went on a tour of Meghan and Harry’s garden and visited a hen coop called what?
5. Piers Morgan stormed off the set of Good Morning Britain after which co-presenter criticised the way he continued to 'trash' the Duchess of Sussex?
6. Ian Murray resigned his position as executive director of which organisation after issuing a defence against claims made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that the British Press was systematically racist?
7. Thomas Markle, talking about his relationship with daughter Meghan, said 'we all make mistakes’ but that he had never done two things that Harry had. What were they? Half a point for each.
8. Police have objected to a vigil called Reclaim These Streets, planned after Sarah Everard went missing, which is due be held tomorrow (Saturday) evening at a bandstand in which London park?
9. Green Party peer Baroness Jones suggested in the House of Lords, during a debate on violence against women, that what should be banned each day from 6pm?
10. Countries, including Italy, Denmark and Norway, suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine following reports that a small number of people had developed what?
11. Which European country announced it was to ease travel restrictions, because of the improving health situation, to and from seven countries including the UK?
12. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that what group of people will be prioritised in the next tranche of Covid vaccines, alongside those aged between 16 and 65 with underlying health conditions?
13. Which world-famous London site opened as a vaccination centre this week, with broadcaster Stephen Fry among the first people to get a jab there?
14. Why was 61-year-old doctor Richard Freeman in the headlines?
15. Winston Marshall, the banjo player from which band, announced he was 'taking time away' to 'examine my blindspots' after a backlash on social media for praising a controversial right-wing writer?
16. Who announced his resignation, in a video message to his followers, saying: 'We've done it, we've achieved it. For me, I feel my political career, in the sense of actively leading a political party, fighting election campaigns. I think now's the moment to say I have done it’?
17. On Sunday the Pope prayed at ruined churches in which city, a former ISIS stronghold, in northern Iraq?
18. What is the name of leader of the Reclaim Party who announced he was standing for election as Mayor of London and, if elected, would lift lockdown the next day?
19. High Court judge Mr Justice Swift ruled that the online guidance on how to answer a question relating to what in this year’s census should be altered?
20. Robin Olsen, whose family were attacked by machete-wielding raiders, is a goalkeeper for which football team?
21. What was removed from the White House and sent back to the Biden family home in Delaware?
22. Steve Gerrard steered Glasgow Rangers to their first Scottish Premier League title in how many years?
23. Trevor Peacock, who died aged 89, was best known for playing the bumbling Jim Trott in which television programme?
24. A 4.6 billion-year-old lump of space rock crashed into the driveway of a house in which Gloucestershire town?
25. Why has tennis player Andy Murray reportedly pulled out of next week's ATP Tour event in Dubai?
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