Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Sam Neve with 21, closely followed by Janet Boyle on 20.5, Jayme Bryla on 19 and Blaise Tapp on 17. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with another impressive 24. The Roberts Family scored 22, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 21.5, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20.5, Maura and Phil Parsons 20, Andy and Amanda Kitson, 18.5 and Peter and Stacey 16. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages

1. Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens appeared at the Old Bailey, via a video link from Belmarsh Prison, charged with murder of Sarah Everard and what other offence?
2. Why did a photograph of 28-year-old Patsy Stevenson go viral?
3. Government plans to beef up police powers to deal with protests came a step closer to becoming law when the second reading of the Police, Crime, ___ and Courts Bill was passed by MPs with a majority of 96. What is the missing word?
4. Health Secretary Matt Hancock admitted a delayed shipment of five million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute in which country was behind the shortage about to hit the UK?
5. The European Medicines Agency reviewed the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after 13 EU states suspended its use over fears of blood clots. But which of these countries did not stop using the vaccine? a) Italy b) Belgium c) Germany d) Spain
6. Former Downing Street advisor Dominic Cummings, giving evidence to the Science and Technology Committee, described what as 'a smoking ruin' at the start of the pandemic?
7. At a Downing Street Press briefing this week deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam weighed in to defend the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, saying that the jabs 'don't save lives if they're in the ___'. What is the missing word?
8. A Government Integrated Review of security, defence, development and foreign policy recommended that a cap on what should increase from 180 to 260?
9. The first photographs of Downing Street’s new £2.6 million White House-style media briefing room were released with what household item inadvertently nestled in a corner?
10. Which retailer announced plans to permanently close its 61 stores, affecting 603 employees?
11. Which Conservative MP used parliamentary privilege to reveal messages indicating aides knew about harassment complaints against Alex Salmond two months before Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says she was told about them?
12. Which company announced its first annual loss, of £13.7 million, since floating on the stock market 37 years ago but said it would make a comeback by opening 100 new shops?
13. Detectives, investigating the murder of Stuart Lubbock at whose house 20 years ago, arrested a 50-year-old man?
14. Which sports investment platform collapsed into administration and had its gambling licence suspended, triggering losses for tens of thousands of savers?
15. The operators of which theme park were fined £1 million over safety failings which led to the death of an 11-year-old girl on a water rapids ride?
16. Eight people were killed in mass shootings at three massage parlours in which US city?
17. Formula 1 commentator Murray Walker, who died aged 97, was famous for many quotes including this one which features on a Silverstone greeting card: 'There's nothing wrong with the car, except it's ___ ___.' What are the two missing words?
18. Former undisputed world middleweight champion Marvin Hagler, who died aged 66, changed his first name to what in 1982?
19. Which programme attracted a record number of complaints, 57,121, to Ofcom … 12,600 more than the previous highest in 2007?
20. Sabine Schmitz, who died aged 51, was the only woman to win the Nurburgring 24 Hours and a former presenter of which BBC television programme?
21. Former EastEnders actress Patsy Palmer shut down an interview with Good Morning Britain after a headline described her as: 'Patsy Palmer: ___ to a wellness guru'. What is the missing word?
22. Rachael Blackmore, 31, made history when she became the first woman to do what?
23. Chris Wilder became the third Premier League manager to lose his job this season when he parted company with which club?
24. Which Netflix film received the most 'nods' with ten Oscar nominations?
25. Who became only the fourth artist, after Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, to win the album of the year prize three times at The Grammys?

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Two teams, the Roberts Family and Simon, Sue and Will Cole, scored a record-equalling 24 in last week’s newsquiz. Other good team efforts included Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Rob Lawrence and Robert Rea who both scored 21. Next came Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 20 and Stacey and Peter with 19. The top solo scorer was Blaise Tapp with 21, followed by Liz Gerard and Phil Lambell both on 20, Janet Boyle and Alan Geere 19, Nicola Lawrence, Gavin Devine, Toby Brown and Nick Turner who all scored 18. Amanda Kitson, smashing the Udimore village record, and Jayme Bryla both scored 17. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

The Sussex's dominate Tuesday's front pages

1. Following Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Buckingham Palace issued a statement that said ‘while some ___ may vary, they are taken very seriously.’ What is the missing word?
2. In the interview Meghan said she and Harry had a secret marriage ceremony, three days before their royal wedding, with who in their ‘backyard’?
3. Who was the first member of the Royal family to personally comment on the Oprah Winfrey interview by insisting: 'We're very much not a racist family’? 
4. In the two-hour documentary, Oprah Winfrey went on a tour of Meghan and Harry’s garden and visited a hen coop called what?
5. Piers Morgan stormed off the set of Good Morning Britain after which co-presenter criticised the way he continued to 'trash' the Duchess of Sussex?
6. Ian Murray resigned his position as executive director of which organisation after issuing a defence against claims made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex that the British Press was systematically racist?
7. Thomas Markle, talking about his relationship with daughter Meghan, said 'we all make mistakes’ but that he had never done two things that Harry had. What were they? Half a point for each.
8. Police have objected to a vigil called Reclaim These Streets, planned after Sarah Everard went missing, which is due be held tomorrow (Saturday) evening at a bandstand in which London park?
9. Green Party peer Baroness Jones suggested in the House of Lords, during a debate on violence against women, that what should be banned each day from 6pm?
10. Countries, including Italy, Denmark and Norway, suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine following reports that a small number of people had developed what?
11. Which European country announced it was to ease travel restrictions, because of the improving health situation, to and from seven countries including the UK?
12. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that what group of people will be prioritised in the next tranche of Covid vaccines, alongside those aged between 16 and 65 with underlying health conditions?
13. Which world-famous London site opened as a vaccination centre this week, with broadcaster Stephen Fry among the first people to get a jab there?
14. Why was 61-year-old doctor Richard Freeman in the headlines?
15. Winston Marshall, the banjo player from which band, announced he was 'taking time away' to 'examine my blindspots' after a backlash on social media for praising a controversial right-wing writer?
16. Who announced his resignation, in a video message to his followers, saying: 'We've done it, we've achieved it. For me, I feel my political career, in the sense of actively leading a political party, fighting election campaigns. I think now's the moment to say I have done it’?
17. On Sunday the Pope prayed at ruined churches in which city, a former ISIS stronghold, in northern Iraq?
18. What is the name of leader of the Reclaim Party who announced he was standing for election as Mayor of London and, if elected, would lift lockdown the next day?
19. High Court judge Mr Justice Swift ruled that the online guidance on how to answer a question relating to what in this year’s census should be altered?
20. Robin Olsen, whose family were attacked by machete-wielding raiders, is a goalkeeper for which football team?
21. What was removed from the White House and sent back to the Biden family home in Delaware?
22. Steve Gerrard steered Glasgow Rangers to their first Scottish Premier League title in how many years?
23. Trevor Peacock, who died aged 89, was best known for playing the bumbling Jim Trott in which television programme?
24. A 4.6 billion-year-old lump of space rock crashed into the driveway of a house in which Gloucestershire town?
25. Why has tennis player Andy Murray reportedly pulled out of next week's ATP Tour event in Dubai?

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The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Kieran Corcoran with 20 followed by Janet Boyle on 19, Sam Ormiston and Gavin Devine 17 and Pam Pearce 16. The top teams were Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 22 followed by Peter and Stacey 21, Maura and Phil Parsons and the Roberts Family both on 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Paul Hindle, Lynne Swift and team with 18. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Thursday's pages dominated by the Budget (with a bit of Meghan)

1. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in the Budget there would be a rise in Corporation Tax in 2023, the first since 1974, from 19 per cent to what?
2. The Chancellor announced in the Budget that hundreds of jobs would be moved to a Treasury campus in which town?
3. It was also announced in the Budget that the contactless card limit is to rise from £45 to what amount?
4. The Government’s proposed pay rise of what per cent for nurses was described as 'pitiful' by the Royal College of Nursing?
5. Buckingham Palace said it was to investigate claims in which newspaper that the Duchess of Sussex had bullied royal staff?
6. The Duchess of Sussex said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was 'perpetuating ___ about us'. What is the missing word?
7. Italy imposed the first EU-sanctioned export ban on vaccines when it blocked 250,000 AstraZeneca doses from going to which country?
8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that what had narrowed to 379 households in south-east England?
9. Which country announced it will open its borders to Britons who had two vaccinations from May 1 - even though UK Government travel restrictions will still be in force?
10. For how many hours on Wednesday did Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon give evidence to a Holyrood committee looking at the investigation into harassment complaints against her predecessor Alex Salmond?
11. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Holyrood committee: 'I would never have wanted to ___ Alex Salmond - I would never, ever have wanted any of this to happen. I had no motive, intention or desire to ___ Alex Salmond.' What is the missing word?
12. Amazon opened a till-less grocery store in London - its first 'just walk out' shop outside the US. What is the shop called?
13. Where did a Second World War C-47 Dakota perform a flypast?
14. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was given a three-year prison sentence for what offence?
15. An article by former Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade on his support for the IRA prompted him to resign his post as an honorary professor at which university?
16. Footballer Ian St John, who died aged 82, signed for Liverpool from his home town club in 1961 and, once his playing career was over in 1973, returned to the same club as manager. Name the club.
17. Which company was revealed to have 40 names, including Boyle, Gallagher, O'Donnell, McGuinness, Murphy and O’Reilly, on an 'undesirables' list?
18. Hundreds of students were evacuated after a World War Two bomb was found at which university?
19. Why was the 9pm Avanti West Coast train from London Euston to Manchester on Tuesday delayed and then taken out of service?
20. The estate of which author announced six books will no longer be published because of racially insensitive imagery?
21. Irish amateur jockey Rob James and trainer Gordon Elliott apologised and were put under investigation after being filmed doing what?
22. Actor Johnny Briggs, who died aged 85, played which character in Coronation Street for 30 years?
23. Which television programme collected the best actor, best actress, best supporting actress and best series awards at the Golden Globes?
24. Ant Middleton said on Instagram 'don't employ a lion if you want a kitten' after he was sacked from which Channel 4 show?
25. Who accused the Netflix show Ginny and Georgia of degrading women for featuring a joke about her which she branded 'deeply sexist'?

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Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Sam Neve with 21, just ahead of Hannah Tomes with a personal best of 20 and Liz Gerard, Janet Boyle and Dominic Hurst who all scored 18. The top team, Simon, Sue and Will Cole, also scored 21. Other good team efforts were submitted by Phil and Maura Parsons with 20, Rob and Nicola Lawrence with 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 17 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 how you get on.

A selection of today's front pages

1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a staggered plan to ease England's lockdown with the third step, when pubs will be allowed to reopen indoors, scheduled for what date?

2. Boris Johnson said a review would be led by Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove into the possibility of introducing what?

3. The UK's coronavirus alert was lowered to what level in all four nations as the risk that the NHS could be overwhelmed receded?
4. Judge Mr Justice Chamberlain ruled that who had 'breached his legal obligation to publish contract award notices within 30 days of the award of contracts'?
5. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, updating the Commons on school exams, said: 'I can confirm that no ___ will be used for this process. Grades will be awarded on the basis of teachers’ judgment and will only ever be changed by human intervention.' What is the missing word?
6. Who told NHS officials that: 'It is obviously difficult for people if they’ve never had a vaccine … but they ought to think about other people rather than themselves'?
7. Which supermarket announced it was consulting employees over a restructuring which could put about 5,000 jobs at risk?
8. James Corden interviewed Prince Harry on an open-top bus in Los Angeles and went for a stroll around a mansion where what television series was filmed?
9. Who said he had 'documentary evidence' of a 'malicious and concerted' attempt to remove him from public life?
10. The Joe Biden administration carried out its first military action with an airstrike, reportedly killing 17 fighters, in which country?
11. In an unanimous ruling, the Supreme Court said the Government had not breached whose rights by refusing to allow her back in the country?
12. Which former Scotland, Manchester United and Leeds footballer was diagnosed with vascular dementia?
13. Golfer Tiger Woods had surgery for fractures of his right leg after a car crash in which American city?
14. Which 72-year-old actor was charged with rape and sexual assault, allegedly committed in 2018 against an actress in her 20s?
15. Which broadcaster had a police panic button installed by his bed after receiving death threats?

16. The Earl of Strathmore, the Queen's first cousin twice removed, was jailed for ten months for what offence?
17. What breed of dogs were stolen after a gunman shot Lady Gaga's dog-walker in Hollywood?
18. Boeing recommended grounding some 777 aircraft after a plane’s engine failed and dropped pieces of metal on houses in which US city?
19. Which tennis player won his ninth Australian Open title?
20. Princess Eugenie and husband Jack Brooksbank gave their newborn son what first name, apparently after Queen Victoria’s husband?
21. The actor, who played the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown, Neville Chamberlain in the Darkest Hour and Norman Cousins in the Marigold Hotel films, died this week aged 80. What was his name?
22. Hasbro announced it was changing the name of which 70-year-old toy because it needed to 'promote gender equality and inclusion'?
23. India completed the quickest Test win since 1935 by bowling England out for what second innings score?
24. Which French band, responsible for influential dance tracks including the worldwide hit Get Lucky, announced they were splitting up after 28 years?
25. Why did Baarack, an Australian sheep, go viral?

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Last week’s newsquiz was clearly a little trickier for some, with quite a few scores coming in below average. There were still the usual top performances though. Liz Gerard was pick of the bunch with 23, followed by Toby Brown on 20.5, Gavin Devine on 18.5 and Jayme Bryla and Ed Mortimer who both scored 17. The top team was Rob and Nicola Lawrence with 21.5, just ahead of the Roberts Family with 21, Maureen and Phil Parsons 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17.5. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. How many more people are to be added to the shielding list in England after a new algorithm found them to be at potential serious risk from Covid-19?
2. Four people, who arrived at which airport on Monday, were fined £10,000 for failing to declare they had travelled to the UK from a 'red list' country?
3. How much are volunteers to be paid for taking part in a scientific trial and exposing themselves to the virus which causes Covid-19?
4. Which bank announced its annual profit fell by a third after setting aside £4.8billion to cover bad loans and finding itself in the 'eye of the pandemic’?
5. According to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service record numbers of people, up by 32 per cent, applied to study what during the pandemic?
6. The mayor of which town resigned and was fined £200 after breaching Covid restrictions by visiting a house to celebrate a wedding?
7. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer outlined proposals for a British ___ Bond scheme as the centrepiece of his alternative plan ahead of next month's Budget. What is the missing word?
8. Who said she would 'give up my vaccine in a heartbeat, if I could, for my sister and any of the residents in her house to have their vaccine’?
9. The Duke of Edinburgh was taken to which London hospital as a precaution because he was feeling unwell? 
10. How many Republican senators broke ranks and voted to convict former president Donald Trump at his impeachment trial?
11. The United Nations said it is to raise the detention of who with the United Arab Emirates?
12. The UK’s Supreme Court ruled that which company must classify its drivers as workers rather than self-employed, meaning they are entitled to minimum wage and holiday pay?
13. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government will not be intimidated by which company whose actions he described as arrogant and disappointing?
14. A black and white photograph by Misan Harriman was used by media all over the world. What did it show?
15. Why was football referee Darren Drysdale in the headlines?
16. Liverpool Echo journalist Liam Thorp, 32, was offered a Covid-19 vaccine early because his surgery recorded him as being how tall - meaning his BMI was 1,000 times higher than average?
17. The retailer Iceland sacked its PR chief after he described what as ‘incomprehensible’ and ‘gibberish’?
18. What is the name of Nasa's six-wheeled rover that landed on Mars to spend two years looking for evidence of past life?
19. Why did the Royal Mail suspend 51-year-old postman Thomas McCafferty in Falkirk?

20. Kyril Louis-Dreyfus became the youngest chairman in English football after his takeover of Sunderland was approved. How old is he?

21. Plans for statues of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, to be erected at Burgh Island in Devon, were rejected by Bigbury Parish Council. How were the two women famous?
22. A Banksy artwork of a girl doing what was removed from the side of a building in Nottingham and sold to a collector?
23. Who asked for plans to erect a statue of her to be put on hold, saying: 'Given all that is going on in the world, I don't think putting me on a pedestal is appropriate at this time’?
24. Who was the last contestant standing in the Masked Singer?
25. Former presenter of the Weakest Link, Anne Robinson, was announced as the new host of what TV show?

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The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Gavin Devine with 20, followed by Toby Brown 19, Janet Boyle 18.5, Liz Gerard 18, Dominic Hurst 17.5 and Jaymes Bryla 16. The top team was Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 23. The Roberts Family scored 21, Maura and Phil Parsons 20.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 20 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17. 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 how you get on.

A selection of today's front pages

1. Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that travellers having to stay in quarantine hotels in England will be charged how much?

2. What did Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describe as an 'empty threat’, former Attorney-General Dominic Grieve say was 'disproportionate’ and ex-Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption say showed a lost 'connection with reality’?

3. Public Health England said there was a 'high degree of confidence' that vaccines would work against two new variants of Covid found in which UK cities? Half a point for each.

4. Office for National Statistics data released this week showed that nearly six out of every ten people who died with coronavirus, 30,296 of 50,888, in England last year were what?

5. The vaccination of a 76-year-old man caused an angry reaction including from West Yorkshire's police chairman, who said it was 'a kick in the teeth’, and TV personality Nicola McLean who said 'I'd give him a lethal injection’ instead. Who were they referring to?

6. The Office for National Statistics announced that the UK economy shrank by a record amount last year as coronavirus restrictions hit output. By what per cent did it fall?

7. Jamie Raskin, the lead manager in the US impeachment trial, said: 'Donald Trump surrendered his role as commander-in-chief and became the ___ in-chief.' What is the missing word?

8. Peter Cowgill, executive chairman of which sports retailer, said red tape in shipping goods to Europe after Brexit was costing 'double-digit millions’ and it will probably move 1,000 UK-based jobs to the continent?

9. Butcher Pawel Relowicz, who prowled the streets looking for victims in which city, was found guilty of murdering and raping student Libby Squire?

10. The Met Office said what temperature, in Braemar in Scotland on Wednesday night, was the coldest recorded in the UK since 1995?

11. Which Canadian actor, who won an Oscar for best supporting actor in 2012 for the film Beginners, died aged 91 after falling and hitting his head?

12. Who became the first Arab nation to put a spaceship, called Hope, in orbit around Mars?

13. A High Court judge granted a summary judgment in favour of the Duchess of Sussex over which newspaper’s publication of extracts of a letter to her father?

14. The news that which company had bought $1.5billion (£1.1billion) Bitcoins caused the price of the cryptocurrency to jump 17 per cent to a record high?

15. A legal fight headed back to a Los Angeles court yesterday, days after a New York Times-produced documentary called Framing ___ ___ questioned a previous judgment. What is the missing name?

16. Tom Brady, known as the NFL GOAT, won his seventh Super Bowl when Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday. What does GOAT stand for?

17. Which media outlet was banned by China, who claimed it was not 'truthful and fair’ and had harmed Chinese interests and undermined national unity?

18. Which former world heavyweight champion, who beat Muhammad Ali in his eighth professional fight, died aged 67?

19. Mary Wilson, who died aged 76, was a founding member of The Supremes who had 12 Number Ones in the US but only one in Britain. Name it.

20. What was accidentally leaked when Downing Street shared pictures of Dilyn the dog on Flickr? 

21. A study by Zhejiang University in China suggested that eating what every day increased the risk of dying by 14 per cent?

22. Princess Eugenie's baby son, born on Tuesday, is 11th in line to the throne, nudging which royal down to 12?

23. Scotland’s rugby team beat England at Twickenham for the first time since what year? (Clue: Michael Jackson was at No 1 with Billie Jean, CDs went on sale for the first time and a call for a miners' strike was rejected by NUM members).

24. Texas lawyer Rod Ponton went viral after telling a judge during a Zoom meeting 'I'm here live, I'm not a ___.’ What is the missing word?

25. Samira Ahmed, Richard Osman and Naga Munchetty were listed by bookmakers as the favourites to take over which role?

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Regional newspapers in 2021

I was asked to write a piece on the opportunities and threats facing the regional Press in 2021 for InPublishing's Partners Guide. The threats bit was easy. The opportunities were harder to find ... but they are still there. Don't write-off regional papers yet. There may be challenges and a need for radical change but there is life in the old Posts, Mercurys, Mails and Chronicles yet. You can read it here. 

Newsquiz records tumbling

The newsquiz records keep tumbling. After several record-equalling scores of 24 being posted in the last few weeks, the Roberts Family were delighted with 24.5 in last week’s quiz. Rob Lawrence and Nicola Midge were narrowly behind with 24. Well done. Either everyone is news-obsessed during lockdown or the quiz is getting easier. Other good team scorers were Maura and Phil Parsons and Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 22, Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 20, Peter and Stacey on 18.5 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 17.5. The best solo score was by Toby Brown with a PB-equalling 22. Dominic Hurst scored 21.5, Liz Gerard 20, Janet Boyle 19.5, Ed Mortimer 18.5 and Gavin Devine 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Captain Sir Tom dominates Wednesday's front pages

1. The country paid tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore who died aged 100 in which hospital?
2. Captain Sir Tom Moore, who died this week, has two entries in the Guinness Book of Records … what are they? Half a point for each.
3. At Wednesday's Downing Street Press briefing, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: 'We have today passed the milestone of ___ vaccinations in the United Kingdom.' What is the missing figure?

4. The Government said that UK residents returning from coronavirus hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels from what date?

5. Chief executive Rob Paterson said the Government had announced a hotel quarantine programme but hadn’t planned it or spoken to the people involved, adding: 'I'm not sure I'd have a job if I did that in my company.' What is Paterson’s company?

6. The EU said that triggering Article ___ of the Northern Ireland Protocol, to block Covid vaccine exports, was an 'accident'. What is the missing number?

7. Which part of the UK saw bars, pubs, shops, restaurants, schools and businesses open their doors, with people no longer asked to stay at home or wear masks?

8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock revealed that which Hollywood film, starring Matt Damon, partly shaped his strategy of placing huge orders with vaccine makers as early as possible?

9. Which company was told to remove 'irresponsible' adverts depicting misleading claims about coronavirus vaccinations after the Advertising Standards Authority received 2,370 complaints - the third highest ever for a commercial? 

10. The mother of a 15-year-old boy, who called chief medical officer Chris Whitty a liar in the street, said she had punished her son by confiscating what?

11. The Office for National Statistics revealed that there were 5,460 deaths caused by what in England and Wales during the first nine months of 2020 - up by 16 per cent?

12. A hospital in which Scottish town was locked down by armed police after three people were killed?

13. Myanmar's military leaders overthrew the democratic government and then said access to what would be blocked until February 7 for 'the sake of stability'

14. The use of the Union flag and dressing smartly at the war memorial were among recommendations made by an agency for the rebranding of which organisation?

15. Which company became the new owner of Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge after a £330million deal?

16. Prince William took to Twitter to say that what was 'despicable and it must stop now'?

17. Andy Jassy is to take on the role as chief executive of which company?

18. Victoria's minister for sport announced that up to how many fans a day will be allowed to attend the Australian Open (tennis) which is due to start on Monday?

19. Why was 19-year-old Callum Woodhouse in trouble with Herefordshire Council?

20. Who was dropped by his record label following claims by actress Evan Rachel Wood that she was 'horrifically abused' by him?

21. Manchester United equalled the Premier League scoring record by beating which team 9-0?

22. Dr Alex George, who appeared on Love Island, was appointed to which role by Prime Minister Boris Johnson?

23. Which 94-year-old singer revealed he had been living with Alzheimer's disease for the last four years?

24. What is the name of the comedian and presenter who is replacing Rufus Hound, who withdrew after testing positive for coronavirus, on Dancing On Ice?

25. A Zoom recording of which parish council's planning and environment committee meeting went viral, becoming one of YouTube most-viewed videos?

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