Friday 2 July 2021

Andrea and Alastair win the US newsquiz

The DailyMail.com trainees from America finished their isolation last weekend and were allowed into the Kensington offices from Monday. They pitched news stories  to Amy Maas on the New York newsdesk and came up with video ideas for assistant video editor Talya Varga. They had sessions with travel editor Ted Thornhill and Femail deputy editor Steph Linning and next week will pitch ideas for both sections. They also had a legal day with the Mail’s lawyers and talks from acting showbiz editor Rebecca Davison, Natalie Johnson from the SEO team, Mail Plus news-editor Rod Ardehali and met Nick Enoch, who will be training them in the content system. They wrote a breaking story, created headlines and captions on pictures and developed stories from the wires. Tommy Taylor and Alastair Talbot won the awards for best picture headlines of the week. We finished, as usual, with the US newsquiz. The joint top scorers this week were Andrea Blanco and Alastair Talbot with 15. See if you can do better. If you are looking for the usual UK news quiz, it is here.


1. US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm suggested that what could have contributed to the tower block collapse in Miami's Surfside?
2. Who accused New York prosecutors of acting like Vladimir Putin and running a banana republic after the Trump Organisation chief financial officer was indicted on charges of tax fraud?
3. Election officials in New York City admitted that how many test ballots in the race for mayor had been mistakenly counted as real ones?
4. Dozens of people died in Canada as an unprecedented heatwave led to the country breaking its temperature record for three days in a row. What was the highest temperature (in F or C)?
5. The House of Representatives voted to remove statues of which group of people from the Capitol Building?
6. Financial firm the Bessemer Trust asked to withdraw from what role this week?
7. Gunman Nathan Allen stole a box truck and crashed it into a building, before shooting David Green, 58, and Ramona Cooper, 60, in a suburb of which city?
8. Derek Chauvin was sentenced by a Minnesota state court to how many years in prison for George Floyd's murder?
9. The last US troops left Bagram Air Base, marking the end of the American presence at the place which had been the centre of military power, in which country?
10. The US National Security Agency (NSA) denied allegations that it had been spying on who for political reasons?
11. Which electronic cigarette company is to pay $40million to North Carolina in a legal settlement, following accusations it had fuelled a rise in teen vaping?
12. President Joe Biden promised that the federal government would pay all the costs for at least the first 30 days of what?
13. What was the name of the Team USA Olympian hammer thrower who turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem?
14. Statues of Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth were damaged during protests in which country in protests over its colonial past after the bodies of 1,000 indigenous children were found buried in mass graves?
15. Students at Howard University in Washington DC called on their dean to be sacked after she tweeted in support of who?
16. Donald Rumsfeld, who served as secretary of defence for President Gerald Ford and President George W Bush, died this week. How old was he?
17. Who said: ‘I was heartbroken to have to withdraw’ and praised 'the extraordinary warmth and support of the crowd’?
18. Sprinting sensation Sha'Carri Richardson is set to miss the Tokyo Olympics after she reportedly tested positive for what drug?
19. Schoolboy Abhimanyu Mishra from New Jersey became the youngest ever what at 12 years, four months and 25 days old?
20. England reached the last eight of Euro 2020 and will play Ukraine in which city tomorrow?
21. At what event did a sign saying 'Allez opi-omi' cause chaos?
22. Which organisation reached a $850billion settlement with more than 60,000 men in the US whose claims of child sex abuse span six decades?
23. What did Ian Rank-Broadley create that was in the UK headlines this week?
24. Which 70-year-old appeared on the cover of the August issue of Vogue magazine, with a 6,000-word profile and images of her shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz inside?
25. ITV condemned 
'wholly unacceptable’ death threats sent to Chloe Burrows who was appearing on which show?

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