MASTERMINDS
1. Who has announced he is leaving Strictly Come Dancing after nine years on the BBC show?
2. The Only Way Is Essex TV personality Gemma Collins is making her stage debut in which musical?
3. Who threw the Oscars into chaos by storming the stage in an altercation with Chris Rock?
4. Which company has reduced the size of its Dairy Milk chocolate bars by 10% blaming inflation?
5. The cast of which 1997 hit British comedy film are reuniting for a new TV series?
6. What is the name of the £38m superyacht owned by a Russian businessman that was detained in London this week as part of sanctions against Russia?
7. Whch fitness guru received an MBE at Windsor Castle on Wednesday?
8. Purifying headphones to protect from air and noise pollution have been unveiled by which company?
9. What is the name of the new radio channel launched by the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
10. Australian tennis player Ash Barty won how many grand slam singles titles?
11. Who is the winner of this year’s Dancing On Ice?
12. Which Hollywood couple have announced they are expecting their seventh child together?
13. What is the name of racing driver Lewis Hamilton’s bulldog that often accompanies him?
14. Who has been announced as the new permanent presenter of the BBC’s Sunday
morning politics show?
15. Which Labour MP has revealed she is taking time off to recover after being diagnosed with breast cancer?
16. The public is being encouraged to record sightings of which critically endangered fish to UK waters?
17. Who claimed their first UK Number One album with Crash?
18. What is the nickname of Argentina’s national rugby union team?
19. How many fines did the Metropolitan Police announce on Tuesday it is referring to the ACRO Criminal Records Office for issue in relation to allegations of lockdown-busting events in Downing Street and Whitehall?
20. Who escorted the Queen into Westminster Abbey for the Duke of Edinburgh’s memorial service?
21. How much did a rare Star Wars poster fetch at an auction in aid of the Ukraine?
22. Which retail giant has appointed Shirine Khoury-Haq as its first female chief executive since it was founded in 1863?
23. Which former Strictly Come Dancing champ has announced he and his wife and expecting twin boys?
24. How many balls are on a snooker table before any have been sunk?
25. The late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins will appear on whose re-mastered second solo album, Another World Revisited?
26. What nickname has been given to Chancellor Rishi Sunak by shadow work and pensions secretary Jon Ashworth?
27. Gatwick Airport has re-opened which terminal to meet what is expected to be strong demand for air travel this summer?
28. Computer scientist Stephen Wilhite, who has died aged 74, was famous for inventing what in 1987?
29. Which media executive and Conservative peer has been announced as the next chairman of the broadcasting and telecommunications watchdog Ofcom?
30. In which year did Dame Ellen MacArthur smash the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the world?