MASTERMINDS
1. What song by Pharrell Williams topped the list of the most played track of the last decade in the UK?
2. What did 99-year-old army veteran Tom Moore do to raise millions for the NHS?
3. Which boy band has sparked rumours of a reunion for their 10th anniversary?
4. How many subscribers signed up to Disney’s new streaming service following its launch?
5. Which Harry Potter star turned 30 this week?
6. Which ill-fated spacecraft returned to Earth 50 years ago after the mission to the Moon had to be aborted?
7. American president Donald Trump announced he was cutting funding for which international organisation?
8. Which retail store’s website was overwhelmed within a few hours after it was re-opened this week?
9. Which bestselling crime writer claimed his Facebook account was suspended after a report that it was fake?
10. What did American gecko owner Jill Young create for her pet?
11. Which former football star dropped by to pay a surprise visit to a cancer sufferer in Oxfordshire?
12. How many races did Sir
Stirling Moss win during his career?
13. Name the London hospital where Prime Minister Boris Johnson was treated.
14. Which sport has been deemed “essential business” in Florida?
15. What has Sir Paul McCartney called for a ban on in China?
16. Tim Brooke-Taylor, who recently died at the age of 79, was president of which famous university club?
17. How old was golfer Tiger Wood when he became the youngest winner of the US Masters in April, 1997?
18. What European trees are under threat from a new bug?
19. Which celebrity fitness trainer has claimed a Guinness World Record after one of his online fitness classes was watched by nearly a million people?
20. Working ventilators from which BBC drama have been donated to the NHS?
21. What famous French cathedral was nearly destroyed by fire a year ago?
22. What have Strictly Come Dancing presenters Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman asked people to do?
23. The centenary of which Scottish-born poet has been celebrated online with the help of ex-UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, actor Alan Cumming and singer Eddi Reader?
24. Which fast food chain was rapped by the advertising watchdog over plant-based burger claims?
25. What date will MPs return to Parliament?
26. Which concentration camp did British troops liberate in 1945?
27. Who ran into trouble with his coronovirus 5G comments?
28. Rosie the Humboldt penguin, one of the UK’s oldest penguin, celebrated what birthday milestone this week?
29. Who has been singing Sir Ken Dodd’s signature tune Happiness in the bath to help the NHS?
30. Which Peaky Blinders actor is returning to CBeebies with his dog Blue for a week of bedtime stories?