In a week where the shocking events in Afghanistan have rightly dominated the news headlines, the inaugural Hundred competition reached its conclusion at Lord’s last night, Morrisons accepted a £7bn takeover bid from Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (albeit there may yet be another round of bidding) and one of Britain's finest comedians, Sean Lock, sadly passed away, The Weekly has again done its upmost to condense the news from the last seven days into five short quiz questions to brighten your Sunday morning. Good luck!
With out-of-office responses flying in as usual during August, The Weekly commends those who are in the office and propping up the property market (or more likely just haven’t been on their holidays yet!). As usual, The Weekly has prepared five short questions collated from the goings-on in the news this week. Good luck!
In a week when the British & Irish Lions won the first test against South Africa, “pinging” has dominated the news agenda, a YouGov study found that one in five Americans believe Covid-19 vaccines are ‘microchipped’ and many popular websites fell offline in a widespread global outage of service, The Weekly has again done its upmost to condense the news from the last seven days into five short quiz questions to brighten your Sunday morning.
In a week which has seen England prepare to lift COVID restrictions, Hammerson announce the end of rental concessions for their tenants and the world's top golfers compete at Royal St George's in the 149th Open, The Weekly has done its best to condense the news from the last seven days into five quick fire questions to test you over your Sunday morning breakfast.
Sporting events of this magnitude don't come around very often. Especially those that involve the English football team! England have waited 55 years since their last major tournament final and the team will step onto the Wembley turf tonight knowing that victory will make them national heroes. With apologies to all our readers who won't be draped in the St George's flag at 8pm tonight, this week's quiz has a rather shameless Three Lions theme....
In a week when England beat Germany and then thrashed Ukraine to reach their first European Championships semi-final since 1996, Andy Murray proved he still knows how to use a tennis racket, Love Island returned to our TV screens (apparently), the Chinese Communist Party turned 100 years’ old and details of a new savings product which will fund the Government's environmental projects were revealed, The Weekly has again done its upmost to condense the news from the last seven days into five short quiz questions to brighten your Sunday morning.
This week's headlines across the economic, political and sporting spheres included The Bank of England keeping interest rates at 0.1% (but warning that inflation will likely rise to 3.0% later this year); Angela Merkel demanding that EU countries introduce mandatory quarantine for Brits travelling abroad and the British & Irish Lions finally taking to the field against Japan at BT Murrayfield yesterday afternoon... not to mention the Euros.
In a week when Portugal was demoted to the amber list leaving thousands of British holidaymakers in limbo, the UK recorded zero COVID deaths for the first time in 453 days, the RICS’ COO resigned, Donald Trump’s communication platform was permanently shut down just a month after its launch and a former GB Olympic silver medal winning gymnast won a dancing TV programme dressed as a car wash, The Weekly has again done its upmost to condense the news from the last seven days into five short quiz questions to brighten your Sunday morning.
