The Chronicle (South Tyneside and Durham)
MASTERMINDS
1. Which high street cosmetics and skincare retailer tumbled into administration on Tuesday?
2. Who is to host BBC daytime quiz show The Answer Run later this year?
3. A light-up C-3PO head from Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi is expected to fetch up to how much at auction next month?
4. Which homeless charity is celebrating its 200th anniversary?
5. Medals at the Paris 2024 Olympics will be inlaid with pieces of what landmark?
6. Courier firm Yodel was snapped up in a last-minute rescue deal by a consortium led by which rival operator?
7. National Highways is urging drivers to stop littering roads with what in order to cut deadly wildlife collisions?
8. Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep from the Oscar-winning animation company Aardman feature on what new merchandise for Red Nose Day?
9. When have British ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean said they will be retiring from skating together?
10. What is the name of French chef Raymond Blanc’s new ITV show?
11. Japan postponed the launch of what this week because of bad weather?
12. Grease star Stockard Channing, who played Rizzo in the 1978 movie, marked which milestone birthday this week?
13. The Prince of Wales’s 2024 Earthshot Prize awards ceremony will be held in which South African city?
14. Who has become Argentina’s first female saint?
15. Blackpink star Lisa is joining the cast of what award-winning TV series?
16. Who was unmasked as Eiffel Tower on ITV’s The Masked Singer?
17. Runner Alex Rigby visited every stop on Merseyrail’s Northern line in a 12-hour challenge to raise money for a domestic abuse charity. How many stops are there?
18. Global pop star Shania Twain is to make her debut performance at which English music festival later this year?
19. The numbers of which UK coastal bird were down by 76% last year because of avian flu?
20. Who is playing Emily Maitlis in the Netflix drama, Scoop, about her explosive Newsnight interview with the Duke of York?
21. How many passengers used Heathrow airport last month?
22. Who left ITV’s Dancing on Ice in a double elimination?
23. Standing at 30ft tall and weighing more than six tonnes, the world’s largest what was unveiled in Windsor this week?
24. King Charles attended which church in Sandringham, Norfolk, last on Sunday morning in his first public outing since the announcement of his cancer diagnosis?
25. The family of which late radio DJ have agreed that his voice can be rebroadcast by Boom Rock, to promote the station between songs, using artificial intelligence?
26. British indie outfit The Last Dinner Party have claimed their first number one album. What is the title of their debut?
27. Who performed a medley of hits beside special guests at the American Super Bowl half-time show last weekend?
28. Barclays has agreed a £600 million deal to buy the consumer bank of which UK supermarket?
29. How many people watched the final of the Traitors on BBC1 last month?
30. Which two broadcasters are fronting new podcast The Sports Agents?