MASTERMINDS

1. What is the name of Beyonce’s country-inspired album?

2. Which cookery show is celebrating its 20th series?

3. British Steel has won a multimillionpound contract to supply rail track for a landmark new route in which country?

4. When will voters across England and Wales head to the polls next month to choose new councillors, mayors and police commissioners?

5. Which Harry Potter film stars are among the line-up for the Queen’s Reading Room festival on June 8?

6. What has been voted Britain’s favourite piece of classical music for the second year running in the annual Classic FM Hall Of Fame poll?

7. When does the new series of Race Across the World return to BBC 1?

8. Which European country has became the latest to legalise cannabis for recreational use allowing people to grow and hold limited quantities of the drug?

9. The price of a first class stamp increased by 10p this week to how much?

10. Who is to present a new Sunday Love Songs show on BBC Radio 2, following the death of Steve Wright earlier this year?

11. Which health club chain has unveiled plans to open 13 new spa retreats this year?

12. What has the British Army lifted a ban on, after a review of its personnel appearance policy?

13. Andrew Scott stars as Tom Ripley in new Netflix drama Ripley. Who played the character in the 1999 blockbuster movie The Talented Mr Ripley?

14. What is the name of the new feed launched by TikTok to inspire young people?

15. A burial crypt close to the resting place of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and Playboy founder Hugh Hefner sold for how much at auction?

16. Which American pop star has entered the Forbes World’s Billionaires List for the first time?

17. Nationwide Building Society said the average UK house price fell by how much month on month in March?

18. Which Dr Kildare and Thorn Birds star is marking his 80th birthday?

19. Why have chickens been making the headlines this week?

20. Which member of Ultravox passed away this week at the age of 71?

21. Who plays the Duke of York in Netflix drama Scoop, a dramatisation of Prince Andrew’s infamous Newsnight interview?

22. What is the title of the new book by Pam Ayres aimed at young readers?

23. Actor Dev Patel is makes his feature directorial debut in which the brutal revenge thriller?

24. What has singer and TV presenter Fleur East named her new baby daughter?

25. Which TV personality has called for an “age limit” to stop young women from using dermal fillers?

26. Queen Camilla wore a hat by which milliner at the Easter Mattins Service in Windsor?

27. Who were the winners of BBC’s Gladiators?

28. X Factor singer Lucy Spraggan has said which TV talent show judge will walk her down the aisle?

29. Railway worker Dave Jones said he was pining for what after a six-week trip to visit all 2,580 railway stations in the UK?

30. The number of migrants to have crossed the English Channel this year passed what milestone over the Easter bank holiday weekend, according to provisional figures from the Home Office?

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