QUICK QUIZ

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF TRIVIA AND CURRENT EVENTS

1. What reserve price has an auction house placed on a teapot-like Chinese jug found during a lockdown sort-out in a garage and a loft in Derbyshire? 2. Which couple has been accused of “interfering in the US election” after urging people in the country to “reject hate speech”? 3. Production has been halted on which Sky comedy – starring Joe Gilgun and Michelle Keegan – due to a crew member testing positive for Coronavirus? 4. Which famous world landmark was cordoned off on Wednesday due to a bomb threat? 5. Which hospitality firm, which owns Premier Inn and Brewers Fayre, has announced it will axe up to 6,000 jobs due to the pandemic? 6. An old television being switched on each morning caused an entire village in Wales to be left with poor broadband for 18 months. What is the name of the village? 7. How many opposite-sex civil partnerships were formed on December 31 – the first day they were legal – according to the Office for National Statistics? 8. Which New Jersey-born rock star known as “The Boss” celebrated his 71st birthday on Wednesday? 9. Who became the youngest person to win the award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series at last weekend’s Emmys? 10. Where was Prime Minister Boris Johnson while his Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a multibillionpound package of support for the economy in the House of Commons? 11. Which retired sports superstar denied a string of criminal charges over his bankruptcy when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court? 12. Why has DUP MP Sammy Wilson admitted he was “offering no excuses” and forced his party leader to say that everyone is “equally subject to the law”? 13. Who has won the 2020 Mercury Prize with their third album?