MASTERMINDS
1. Which country music star has been presented with a $100 million award from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos?
2. King Charles celebrated his first birthday as monarch this week. How old is he?
3. Who has overtaken Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You as the most streamed UK song of all time?
4. The BBC has announced that which bestselling Booker Prize-winning novel set in 1980s Glasgow is being adapted into a television series?
5. Which singer has been forced to postpone a series of in-store signings for new album Faith In The Future after breaking his arm in a fall in New York?
6. Who defended comments telling gay fans not to protest and to comply with local laws while visiting Qatar for the World Cup, saying he just wanted them to be safe?
7. The UN says the world’s population hit which milestone this week?
8. A cruise ship with 800 Covid cases on board docked in which Australian city?
9. The Welsh Government, the Football Association of Wales and S4C have honoured which two Hollywood stars for promoting the country and its language?
10. Which venue is Strictly Come Dancing returning to this weekend?
11. London Library has announced which British actress as the first female president in its 181-year history?
12. Which bank is to start paying up to £2,000 to its mortgage holders to help them go green in their homes?
13. Downtown singer Petula Clark marked which milestone birthday this week?
14. Which Apprentice winner has sold the multi-million pound company he built with Lord Sugar?
15. Who sang a CBeebies Bedtime Story of True Colours, a book based on the hit 1986 song performed by Cyndi Lauper?
16. Where does the St Leger Stakes take place?
17. The UK economy shrank by how much between July and September according to official statisticians?
18. Which celebrity gave £17,000 to help pay life support fuel costs of 12-year-old girl?
19. How many trophies did Taylor Swift win at the 2022 MTV Europe Music Awards?
20. Which former world heavyweight boxing champion was known as The Manassa Mauler?
21. Who unveiled a mural of an Ukraine gymnast on a building shelled by Russia?
22. Olivia Attwood has revealed she was forced to withdraw from I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! after a routine blood test showed what?
23. Lance Stroll drives for which F1 team?
24. Which celebrity couple won the BBC’s recent
Unbreakable competition?
25. The number of migrants who have crossed the English Channel to the UK so far this year has passed which milestone, according to Government figures?
26. What West End show is to close after 33 years?
27. Who is the head judge on Dancing With The Stars who has announced his retirement after more than 15 years with the US show?
28. How many people in England have been waiting more than a year to start hospital treatment, according to new figures?
29. Who plays Charles – the then Prince of Wales, now the King – in the fifth season of The Crown?
30. At which cricket ground would you find the James Anderson End?