Friday 9 July 2021

Time to tackle the newsquiz ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Gavin Devine with 21 ahead of Liz Gerard and Robert Rea on 19, Jayme Bryla and Ed Mortimer on 17 and Jo Wadsworth on 16. The top team score was 20 by the Roberts Family. Bruce and Sarah Hayward and the Three Legs drinker Stacey, Les and Nicky scored 19, Phil and Maura Parsons 18.5 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 18. 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 your score. If you are feeling confident there is also a US version of the newsquiz here.

Thursday's front pages go football crazy

1. UEFA opened proceedings against England after the semi-final with Denmark on three issues. One was the lighting of fireworks by supporters, what were the other two? Half a point for each.
2. Which American singer sent a message to the England squad saying ‘I am wishing you the best for the semi-finals’ and adding 'I'll be watching from the mountains of Colorado’?
3. In Wednesday’s semi-final Jack Grealish became only the third English player, joining Jamie Redknapp and Aaron Lennon, to do what in a major tournament?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announcing the wholesale lifting of Covid restrictions from July 19, said: 'I don’t want people to feel that this is, as it were, the moment to get ___ ___, this is the end of Covid. It is very far from the end of dealing with this virus.’ What are the two missing words?
5. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that, once Covid restrictions were lifted on July 19, he would continue to do what ‘as a matter of courtesy’?
6. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that from July 19 holidaymakers returning to England from amber list countries will not have to quarantine on what two conditions. Half a point for each.
7. The National Health Service was awarded what honour, accompanied by a hand-written letter, by The Queen?
8. What strain of Covid, thought to have originated in Peru and detected in at least 30 countries including Britain, has now arrived in Australia?
9. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was cleared of breaching the rules but was criticised by the MPs standards watchdog for failing to promptly explain how a trip to which island was funded?
10. The owners of Vauxhall announced plans to build electric vans which will safeguard more than 1,000 jobs at its factory in which town?
11. What is the name of the president of Haiti who was assassinated in his home?
12. Danyal Hussein, 19, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of the murder of two sisters in a London park after the jury heard he had signed a pact with the devil to 'sacrifice' six women every six months in order to try to do what?
13. A React study, which tested more than 47,000 volunteers across England, suggested what reason for Covid infections rising faster among men than women in the past two weeks?
14. Former US President Donald Trump announced he was launching a class action law suit against the CEOs of which three companies? Half a point for two, one point for all three.
15. Sainsbury's announced it had decided to gradually phase out the sale of what products due to a fall in sales?
16. Which UK supermarket accepted a takeover offer by an American group led by the owner of Majestic Wine?
17. Why was 37-year-old Nina Farooqi sacked from her job as a digital content producer in Leeds?
18. France has said that a new Russian law, which outlaws the use of which word, is ‘unacceptable'?
19. The BBC published the latest list of its highest-paid stars with Gary Lineker at the top, taking between £1,360,000-£1,364,999 a year. Who was the highest paid woman on £1,130,000-£1,134,999.
20. Which West End musical, starring Michael Ball and Les Dennis, scrapped all performances for ten days after a member of its production team tested positive for Covid?
21. Who faced a twitter backlash for suggesting that 'it got a bit too much' for 18-year-old Emma Raducanu after she was forced to retire during her Wimbledon match due to 'difficulty breathing’?
22. The fight between Tyson Fury and which boxer in Las Vegas on 24 July has been postponed after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.
23. Why has ten-year-old Belle McNally been in the headlines?
24. The Queen visited where for the first time since 1982 to celebrate a diamond jubilee
25. Who is to replace Sue Barker as host on the BBC programme A Question of Sport after 24 years?

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