Friday, 9 April 2021

Can you join the newsquiz record breakers?

Congratulations to the Roberts Family who scored a maximum 25 points in last week’s newsquiz. Great news knowledge. I had thought it was a record that had never been achieved before but it turns out two teams have previously scored the maximum. They were Sam, Harry, Shannon and Thom and, would you believe, the Roberts Family - both on April 17 last year. Other good team scores last week included Simon, Sue and Will Cole with an impressive 23, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and Peter and Stacey and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17.5. The top solo scorers were Gavin Devine and Jayme Bryla with 19, Giles Borg on 18.5, Toby Brown and Dominic Hurst on 18 and Ed Mortimer on 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. And you could become the all-time record-breaker as there are 26 points up for grabs (there’s a bonus on question 23). Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Today's front pages

1. Prince Philip, who died today (Friday), married Princess Elizabeth five years before she became Queen and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history. How many years were the couple married?
2. Prince Philip, who died today, was born in 1921 on which Greek island?
3. People under what age are to be offered Pfizer or Moderna vaccines rather than the Oxford/AstraZeneca due to concerns over a risk of blood clots?
4. Deputy chief medical officer Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, at the Downing Street Press briefing, explained changes to the vaccination programme by saying: 'If you sail a massive liner across the ___ then it’s not really reasonable that you aren’t going to have to make at least one course correction during that voyage.' What is the missing word?
5. In the Government’s next roadmap stage on Monday, April 12, which of these will not be allowed to open a) libraries b) zoos c) community centres d) bowling alleys?
6. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Downing Street Press briefing that on April 12 he would be 'cautiously but irreversibly' doing what?
7. Elle Taylor, 24, from Ammanford in Wales, became the first person in the UK to do what?
8. The Treasury released two text messages sent by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to former Prime Minister David Cameron concerning his request for help for which finance firm, where he was an adviser?
9. What was the name of the Conservative MP for Chesham and Amersham and former Welsh Secretary who died aged 68?
10. Why did Kyaw Zwar Minn spend a night in his car in London this week?
11. What did police in Belfast use for the first time in six years on Thursday night after nine nights of disturbances?
12. The body of missing student 19-year-old Richard Okorogheye was found by police in a lake in which woodland area?
13. Why was 83-year-old hotelier Sir Richard Lexington Sutton in the headlines?
14. Four people were arrested during confrontations with HS2 contractors over the felling of trees in Jones' Hill Wood in the Chilterns, an area said to have inspired which writer?
15. Who came under fire from human rights groups and was criticised by two former wives, one of whom described him as a 'rape apologist'?
16. A High Court judge ruled that Andy Green, from Lincolnshire, was entitled to the £1.7million he won from Betfred by playing what game on his phone?
17. The actor who played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter, power plant worker Anatoly Dyatlov in Chernobyl and Martin Goodman in Friday Night Dinner died aged 54. What was he called?
18. Princes William and Harry reportedly reunited this week to sign off a final design for what?
19. Models arrested for posing naked in a high-rise balcony photo shoot in which city were deported?
20. What happened for the first time in the English Football League when Harrogate Town played Port Vale on Monday?
21. Singer Jane Macdonald's partner Eddie Rothe, who died aged 68, was the drummer in which 1960s pop group?
22. Who said she had tears as she laid four places at the dinner table?
23. The Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been held on the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake since 1845 but this year’s race was held 90 miles away on what river? And for a bonus point, who won?
24. Towie’s Tommy Mallet was named on Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list of influential entrepreneurs after his company that sells what product was valued at £2.5million?
25. Brian Robson, 75, is looking for two Irishmen who helped him return home from Australia in 1965 by doing what?

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