Quiz of The Week: 23 - 29 October

The fishing row between the UK and France has been making waves again this week, after a British trawler was seized off Le Havre.

The crackdown by the French authorities came as Paris pledged to ban all British seafood imports in retaliation for the decision not to grant more fishing licences to French trawlers in UK waters.

In further headaches for Downing Street, leaked documents revealed the hefty predicted cost of implementing Boris Johnson’s “Plan B” for tackling Covid-19 if infections rise over the coming months. And Rishi Sunak’s long-trailed “high tax, high spend” Budget divided Conservative MPs.

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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:

Need a reminder of some of the other headlines over the past seven days?

• Lockdown restrictions were reintroduced in the Chinese city of Lanzhou, in a fresh signal that Beijing has no plans to abandon its net-zero Covid plan.
• Jacinda Ardern admitted that New Zealand’s new Covid vaccination policy will result in the creation of a “two-tier society”.
• The UN World Food Programme warned that Afghanistan is facing a humanitarian “catastrophe” that could soon “eclipse crises in Yemen and Syria”.
• Japan’s Princess Mako, niece of Emperor Naruhito, renounced her royal status to marry her commoner boyfriend.
• Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen gave evidence to a joint committee of MPs following her testimony earlier this month to the US Congress.
• And civilian leaders were arrested in Sudan, in an apparent military coup.