MASTERMINDS
1. Which Beatle sang the last line on the Abbey Road album?
2. Which former French president died last week?
3. What did McDonald’s rebrand French Fries as during the Iraq war?
4. Who was the last female Speaker of the House of Commons?
5. Which BBC reporter has been embroiled in a row over apparent bias against Donald Trump?
6. Who hit the headlines for describing climate change activist Greta Thunberg as a spoilt brat?
7. In which city was the Conservative Party conference held?
8. Phoebe Waller-Bridger cleaned up at the Emmy Awards with which TV show?
9. Which Liverpool-born TV newsreader died this week?
10. What was the name of the hurricane that hit the UK this week?
11. Dave Lewis is leaving his post as boss of which supermarket chain?
12. Thirteen tonnes of what was found stashed in a corrupt Chinese official’s home?
13. Which writer is currently in a public row with former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove?
14. Which fast food chain found itself in trouble for apparently encouraging people to throw milkshakes at Nigel Farage?
15. TripAdvisor has banned the sale of tickets to which popular US aquatic attraction?
16. The Royal Shakespeare Company has ended its sponsorship deal with which company after protests?
17. Which Royal has announced plans for legal action against a tabloid newspaper over publication of a private letter?
18. Adam Lambert sings with which band?
19. A computer game featuring which animal has become an unlikely download chart topper?
20. Which former reality star tweeted that she ‘wouldn’t have washed since’ if Boris Johnson had touched her thigh 20 years ago?
21. Which global tech company turned 21 this week?
22. Babies in the womb have been found to develop muscles similar to those of what animal?
23. Barrie Masters, who died this week, was lead singer with which band?
24. Paul Gascoigne took to Twitter to rib which rock and roll icon this week?
25. Which airline’s pilots are considering Christmas strike action? 26. David Pemsel is to become chief executive of which organisation? 27. Who is the current UK defence secretary?
28. Ryan Clark-Neal is the presenter of which rebooted daytime TV show? 29. Which couple are set to return as stand-in hosts of This Morning? 30. Emiliano Martinez is keeper for which club?