I have been working with five DailyMail.com trainees from New York this week. They flew into London last weekend and had to isolate so we have been training via Zoom. They have been learning about Mail style and have edited stories, written intros and headlines and carried out a detailed analysis of the Mail’s websites. The prize for the best intro of the week went to Shannon Thaler and for the best headline to Tommy Taylor. The trainees also had sessions with New York assistant news-editor Amy Maas, senior reporter Jen Smith and former trainee, Megan Sheets, who now works on the newsdesk. Once all the trainees' Covid tests are done and their isolation is over we hope to be in the Mail’s Kensington offices for the next few weeks. We finished the week with the American newsquiz. This week’s runaway winner was Alastair Talbot with 20 points. Give it a go and see if you can do better. If you are looking for the usual UK quiz, it is here.
2. In which New York park was a woman left bloodied and bruised after being trampled on by crowds fleeing a man armed with a large knife and a taser during a rave?
3. President Joe Biden announced that two parent families on a combined salary of up to what amount will be eligible for tax credit of $300 per child a month?
4. Senate Republicans blocked which bill with a filibuster, killing it before it could be debated with a party-line vote of 50-50?
5. Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, 75, was found dead in a prison in which city after a court ruled he was to be extradited to the US for tax evasion?
6. What is the name of the town, north of Miami, Florida, where a 12-storey building collapsed?
7. Singer Britney Spears called on a court in Los Angeles to end her abusive conservatorship and said those responsible for enforcing it, including her father, should be in jail. What is her father’s name?
8. Who had his law licence suspended in New York for making 'demonstrably false and misleading' claims around the 2020 US election?
9. Four people from the same family were killed in a tubing accident when they went over a dam on which river in North Carolina?
10. At least six people were injured after a pedestrian bridge collapsed on to truck on a highway in which American city?
11. A book by Kevin Cook said that the crew of a space shuttle, which crashed in 1986, would probably have survived the initial explosion. What was the space shuttle called?
12. Who apologised for a video, showing her mouthing an anti-Asian racist slur, saying 'I am appalled and embarrassed and want to barf that I ever mouthed along to that word’?
13. What is the name of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper which announced its closure after its offices were raided and its editor and five other executives were arrested over allegations of breaking national security laws?
14. Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to do what?
15. New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard became the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics, when she was selected for which sport?
16. Ebrahim Raisi, 60, won which country's presidential election and is due to take office in August?
17. Which clothing brand, known for its fur-trimmed parka jackets, announced it will stop buying fur by the end of this year and stop manufacturing products with it by the end of 2022?
18. Winston Marshall quit which band after he was pilloried by a 'viral mob' for praising a book by US journalist Andy Ngo?
19. Moscow's defence ministry said warning shots had been fired and bombs dropped in the path of which British warship, which was sailing near Crimea?
20. President Joe Biden and his wife Jill announced the death of their ‘beloved' dog who had been with them for 13 years. What was it called?
21. Singer Macy Gray said what should be ditched because it is 'tattered, dated, divisive and incorrect’?
22. American footballer Megan Rapinoe was signed up by which brand to work with the company on 'collaborations, business partnerships and cause-related initiatives’?
23. Which British newspaper broke the story that Health Secretary Matt Hancock was having an affair with one of his aides?
24. England went through to the last 16 of Euro 2020 … but who do they play in their next game?
25. Researchers from Columbia University have that found that stress causes what condition - and that reducing stress can reverse it?
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