Quiz of The Week: 1 - 8 October

The release of the Pandora Papers threatened to overshadow the Conservative Party conference this week after major Tory donors found themselves implicated in the massive leak of financial data.

Some of the most serious revelations concerned Mohamed Amersi, who has donated more than £500,000 to the Tories since 2018.

Revelations in the documents link Amersi to a deal between Swedish telecoms company Telia and an offshore company owned by the daughter of Uzbekistan’s former president, a deal later described by US authorities as a “$220m (£161.3m) bribe”. Amersi has denied any wrongdoing.

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Johnson’s first in-person conference speech since his 2019 election victory was met with mixed reactions.

He pushed his vision for a new post-Brexit economic model, promising that his government would oversee the introduction of “high-wage and high-skill employment”. But business leaders were quick to attack the speech, with one Conservative thinktank describing it as “vacuous”.

To find out how closely you’ve been paying attention to the latest developments in the pandemic, and other global events, put your knowledge to the test with our Quiz of The Week:

• A whistle-blower who alleged Facebook is aware its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm in leaks to The Wall Street Journal revealed her identity in a televised interview.
• Leaked documents showed that a team of scientists from Wuhan and the US outlined plans to create new coronaviruses just over 18 months before the first Covid-19 outbreak was reported in China.
• A Saudi-backed £305m takeover of Newcastle United Football Club was completed, raising questions over the state’s human rights record.
• And tensions continued to rise between China and Taiwan, prompting the revelation that US troops have been covertly training Taiwanese forces in case of an invasion attempt by Beijing.