Test your current events knowledge with this quiz about everything that has happened this week. From presidential inaugurations, to UK snowfall, storms and flooding, to people hiding in airports, what do you remember about events in the news?
QUIZ OF THE WEEK
QUESTIONS
1. What is the name of the James Bond film that has been delayed release until at least October 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
2. What is the name given to the storm that has been battering Britain this week causing major flooding in some areas?
3. Google has threatened to shut down search engines in which country after it proposed a News Media and Digital Mandatory Bargaining Code, which could see social media platforms having to pay for any news information posted on their websites?
4. Which singer helped close the presidential inauguration as fireworks spectacularly exploded over Washington DC?
5. Which 73 year old celebrity urged people to ‘Come with me if you want to live’ as he received his Covid-19 vaccine jab?
6. A button that was installed on the Oval Office’s desk by Donald Trump has been removed by President Joe Biden, what did the button reportedly order to be brought to Trump’s desk?
7. What is the name of the 22 year old woman who read out the poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ at the presidential inauguration?
8. A man lived secretly for three months at which US airport after the fear of Covid made him too scared to fly home?
9. Why was Monday 18th January 2021 a day to forget according to ‘experts’? (Hint it was first recognised in 2005 by travel company ‘Sky Travel’)
10. Which artist has become the first ever to have 50 billion Spotify streams, ahead of his new album, ‘Certified Lover’?
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ANSWERS
QUIZ OF THE WEEK
1. What is the name of the James Bond film that has been delayed release until at least October 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
NO TIME TO DIE
2. What is the name given to the storm that has been battering Britain this week causing major flooding in some areas?
STORM CHRISTOPH
3. Google has threatened to shut down search engines in which country after it proposed a News Media and Digital Mandatory Bargaining Code, which could see social media platforms having to pay for any news information posted on their websites?
AUSTRALIA
4. Which singer helped close the presidential inauguration as fireworks spectacularly exploded over Washington DC?
KATY PERRY – Singing ‘Firework, of course
5. Which 73 year old celebrity urged people to ‘Come with me if you want to live’ as he received his Covid-19 vaccine jab?
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
6. A button that was installed on the Oval Office’s desk by Donald Trump has been removed by President Joe Biden, what did the button reportedly order to be brought to Trump’s desk?
DIET COKE
7. What is the name of the 22 year old woman who read out the poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ at the presidential inauguration?
AMANDA GORMAN
8. A man lived secretly for three months at which US airport after the fear of Covid made him too scared to fly home?
CHICAGO (He hid in a secure area of O’Hare airport from 19 October 2020 to 16 January 2021)
9. Why was Monday 18th January 2021 a day to forget according to ‘experts’? (Hint it was first recognised in 2005 by travel company ‘Sky Travel’)
IT WAS BLUE MONDAY – The most depressing day of the year apparently
10. Which artist has become the first ever to have 50 billion Spotify streams, ahead of his new album, ‘Certified Lover’?
DRAKE