MASTERMINDS
1. Which EastEnders star is leaving the show at the end of the year?
2. The Duchess of Cambridge marked her 40th birthday by releasing photos of her wearing dresses from which famous fashion house?
3. Where were the fossilised remains of prehistoric “sea dragon” ichthyosaur discovered in the UK?
4. Which British rock group is to feature on new Royal Mail stamps?
5. How much has Death In Paradise star Ralf Little raised to help stray dogs in the Caribbean where the BBC show is filmed?
6. Which former Strictly Come Dancing champion has started a new life in the country on a farm in the Peak District?
7. Which Oscar-winning British film star is selling mementos from his film career and paintings from his personal collection as he downsizes to a new home?
8. When will BBC Three return as a broadcast channel?
9. Which country is currently hosting the Africa Cup of Nations?
10. Who is joining the judging panel when Dancing On Ice returns on Sunday?
11. When was the last time England won the Ashes in Australia?
12. How many passengers cancelled flights from Heathrow last month?
13. Which actress, who starred in A Fish Called Wanda, was the only celebrity to make an appearance at the 2022 Golden Globes ceremony?
14. Which Premier League football manager was Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared to by Michael Gove?
15. What children’s TV series about a London comprehensive school is getting a reboot as a film?
16. Which famous British singing star is to be immortalised in a new waxwork by Madame Tussauds ?
17. When is the Platinum Party at the Palace to mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne take place?
18. Who is to direct an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Ralph Fiennes?
19. Which retailer announced on Monday plans to close 15 stores in the UK?
20. In which year did tennis player Sir Andy Murray win his first grand slam title?
21. How many babies did Pope Francis baptise in the Sistine Chapel last weekend, resuming a decades-old Vatican tradition which was interrupted last year by the pandemic?
22. US actor and comedian Bob Saget has died in the US aged 65 – on which popular comedy show did he play (via voiceover) the future version of lovelorn New Yorker Ted Mosby?
23. What anniversary of the Falklands War was marked this week?
24. Which golfer was nicknamed The Golden Bear?
25. Who opened the Born Free exhibition at Waterloo Millennium Green in London?
26. What is the name given to the so-called ‘tearless onions’ that are to go on sale in UK supermarkets?
27. How did Transformers star Josh Duhamel propose to model girlfriend Audra Mari?
28. Who has been announced as the BBC’s new chief executive of news and current affairs?
29. Which supermarket has announced it will remove “use by” dates from milk packaging to save millions of pints from being thrown away unnecessarily every year?
30. Who is the only British man to have won 100m gold medals at the Olympics, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games?
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