Friday 3 December 2021

Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 22, just ahead of Rob Lawrence on 21. Marguerite Turner and Stuart Bagnall scored 20, Chris Matthews and Toby Brown 19, Jayme Bryla 18 and Gavin Devine and Robert Rea 17. Maura and Phil Parsons were the top team with 23. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe scored 21, Simon, Sue and Will Cole and Three Legs drinkers Bryan Heather and Peter 19 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 16. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. Omicron, the Covid-19 variant that emerged in South Africa, was named after what number letter of the Greek alphabet?
2. At Prime Minister's Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused Boris Johnson of 'taking the public for fools' in a clash over allegations of what?
3. Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey said that people should enjoy Christmas but added she didn’t think there should be much 'snogging' where?
4. Which European country ruled that unvaccinated people would not be allowed in restaurants, cinemas, leisure facilities and non-essential shops in a bid to fend off a fourth wave of Covid?
5. In Sir Keir Starmer's reshuffle who became shadow Home Secretary, returning to a role she held from 2011-2015?
6. A trial of seven different vaccinations led by the University of Southampton and published in the Lancet, concluded that Pfizer and which other booster were the most effective at raising immunity?
7. Relatives of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, whose father and stepmother were convicted of killing him, blamed which town’s social services for missing a raft of opportunities to save the boy's life?
8. Emma Tustin, 32, was sentenced to life for the murder of her six-year-old stepson Arthur Labinjo-Hughes with a minimum term of how many years.
9. Conservative Louie French won which by-election with 11,189 votes but with a reduced majority?
10. Three victims of Storm Arwen, in Antrim, Cumbria and Aberdeenshire, were all killed by what?
11. What is the name of Britain’s highest pub where 61 guests were stranded by heavy snow from Storm Arwen?
12. Who told ITV political editor Robert Peston that he 'had blown up every part of my life'?
13. Stephen Sondheim, who died aged 91, was a leading figure in musical theatre for more than six decades after becoming famous in 1957 as the lyricist for which Broadway production that became a film in 1961?
14. At the Court of Appeal, the Duchess of Sussex won the latest stage in her legal fight against which newspaper over a letter she sent to her father?
15. Prosecutors in a New York trial produced a 58-page booklet that instructed staff working for who 'to see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, except to answer a question directed at you'?
16. Pub chef John Croucher was given a suspended four-month jail sentence at Reading Crown Court after admitting serving an undercooked what at a church harvest supper which killed one person and poisoned 31 others?
17. Former Arsenal and Liverpool footballer Ray Kennedy, who died aged 70, became the public-face of a charity spreading awareness of which disease, a condition he was diagnosed with when he was 33?
18. Jack Dorsey stepped down as chief executive of which company, saying 'it's finally time for me to leave' and that the company was 'ready to move on'?
19. Which South Shields born man, who lost the use of all four limbs in a car crash in 1986, was knighted in 1999 for services to his sport?
20. The Weston family agreed terms to sell which department store to Central Group, a Thai conglomerate, for around £4billion?
21. Who did president Sandra Mason replace as her country’s head of state?
22. Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player in football history to reach which goalscoring milestone?
23. Ellen White became the Lionesses's record goalscorer as England beat which team 20-0 to record their biggest-ever competitive victory?
24. Which two musicians unveiled a song, called Merry Christmas, which they hope will become the Christmas number one, describing it as a bittersweet track that remembers 'the ones who have gone' in a painful year? Half a point for each.
25. How many nights did the 
camp-mates in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! spend in solo quarantine away from Gwrych Castle because of the damage caused by Storm Arwen?

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