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News & Pics Quiz FirstNews Issue 727 22 –28 May 2020

All these questions are about stories in the news this week. Can you find the article and the information? Write the answer, the section of the paper and the page number where you found the information.

A1 Why is Bear in the news this week?

A2 What new scientific fact has been discovered about two species of endangered sea turtle?

A3 Where in the world is a boy pictured floating down the road on a chair, after heavy rains caused floods?

A4 Who opened the scoring in the first match for German football since the season was suspended in March, as a result of the coronavirus lockdown?

A5 What has been discovered by archaeologists on a hill near Rhynie in Aberdeenshire?

A6 What key worker jobs are Ruby Isaac’s parents employed in?

A7 How has Geary’s Bakery been showing its gratitude to key workers?

A8 By 2025 where in the UK plans to become the first ‘smoke-free’ county?

A9 What are the following numbers about in this week’s news: Ten children since February, compared with 19 children in the past five years?

A10 What does the British Library want you to do during lockdown?

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Issue 727 £1.99 22 – 28 May 2020

First News readership is 2,235,888. Source: Opinion Matters 2016. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publications audited in the UK. First News supports children’s charities – see page 20

TRUSTEDNEWS FOR KIDS,

WITH MORETHAN 2 MILLION

READERS*

Maybe! Trials are taking place to see if specially-trained ‘COVID dogs’ can tell whether people have the coronavirus, even before they show any symptoms.

The dogs can already detect certain cancers, so the Government is spending half a million pounds to see if they can help spot people with COVID-19, too.

World-leading researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are working with the charity Medical Detecti on Dogs and Durham University for the trial.

Medical Detecti on Dogs has already successfully trained dogs to detect the odour of many diff erent diseases in

humans, such as cancer, malaria and Parkinson’s disease. The clever canines can detect the odour of disease at the same diluti on of one teaspoon of sugar in two Olympic-sized swimming pools of water.

This new trial will look at whether the dogs, a mixture of Labradors and cocker spaniels, can be trained to detect coronavirus in people, too. If they can do it, each dog could screen up to 250 people an hour.

Dr Claire Guest, co-founder of Medical Detecti on Dogs, said: “We are incredibly proud that a dog’s nose couldonce again save many lives.”

CAN dogs sniff out coronavirus?Maybe! Trials are taking place to see

if specially-trained ‘COVID dogs’ can tell whether people have the coronavirus, even before they show any symptoms.

The dogs can already detect certain cancers, so the Government is spending


CAN dogs sniff out coronavirus?

COVID-K9 TO SCHOOL OR NOT TO SCHOOL?WHILE politi cians, scienti sts and teachers try to work out when it’s okay for kids to return to school, we hear from a girl who’s already there.

Ruby, 12, is the daughter of key workers, so has been at school the whole ti me during lockdown. Read her story on page 25.

by editor in chief Nicky Cox

THE BIG PICTURE

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TINYBOOKS!

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SUCCESSFOR SPACE SEEDS P9

BEARRESCUE P12

PICTURE Part A: Words


These pictures are about stories in the news this week. Can you find the article and information? Write the answer, the section of the paper and the page number where you found the information.

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NEWS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT INTERVIEWS PUZZLES COMPETITIONS AND MORE

Issue 727 £1.99 22 – 28 May 2020

First News readership is 2,235,888. Source: Opinion Matters 2016. First News is the widest-read of all children’s publications audited in the UK. First News supports children’s charities – see page 20

TRUSTEDNEWS FOR KIDS,

WITH MORETHAN 2 MILLION

READERS*

Maybe! Trials are taking place to see if specially-trained ‘COVID dogs’ can tell whether people have the coronavirus, even before they show any symptoms.

The dogs can already detect certain cancers, so the Government is spending half a million pounds to see if they can help spot people with COVID-19, too.

World-leading researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine are working with the charity Medical Detecti on Dogs and Durham University for the trial.

Medical Detecti on Dogs has already successfully trained dogs to detect the odour of many diff erent diseases in


This new trial will look at whether the dogs, a mixture of Labradors and cocker spaniels, can be trained to detect coronavirus in people, too. If they can do it, each dog could screen up to 250 people an hour.

Dr Claire Guest, co-founder of Medical Detecti on Dogs, said: “We are incredibly proud that a dog’s nose couldonce again save many lives.”

CAN dogs sniff out coronavirus?Maybe! Trials are taking place to see

if specially-trained ‘COVID dogs’ can tell whether people have the coronavirus, even before they show any symptoms.

The dogs can already detect certain cancers, so the Government is spending


CAN dogs sniff out coronavirus?

COVID-K9 TO SCHOOL OR NOT TO SCHOOL?WHILE politi cians, scienti sts and teachers try to work out when it’s okay for kids to return to school, we hear from a girl who’s already there.

Ruby, 12, is the daughter of key workers, so has been at school the whole ti me during lockdown. Read her story on page 25.

by editor in chief Nicky Cox

THE BIG PICTURE

P16

TINYBOOKS!

P5

SUCCESSFOR SPACE SEEDS P9

BEARRESCUE P12

PICTURE Part B: Pictures


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Part A: Words

A1 Bear is a rescue dog who has saved more than 100 koalas in Australia after wildfires put them in danger. ‘Hero hound’, Big News, page 9

A2 Hawksbill and leatherback turtles create extra trails in the sand and make decoy nests to try to lead predators away from their nests where they have buried their eggs. ‘Nesting secrets’, Animal News, page 12

A3 Banda Aceh in Indonesia. News in Pictures, page 7

A4 Robert Lewandowski for Bayern Munich. ‘Sport in Numbers’, Sport, page 26

A5 One of Britain’s largest ancient settlements, where 4,000 people lived in around 800 huts! ‘Ancient settlement unearthed’, Aberdeenshire, Home News, page 8

A6 Ruby’s mum works in a job centre and is helping people who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus, and who need to claim benefits to get money to buy food. Her dad is a store manager at a superstore that sells food and essential items, such as medicines. ‘Going to school’, Your News, page 25

A7 Each week they have been baking and delivering more than 9,000 loaves of bread to NHS staff working on the front line at hospitals in and around Leicester. ‘Loaves of love’, Home News, page 8

A8 Oxfordshire. ‘Smoke-free county’, Home News, page 8

A9 Since February, ten children in the Bergamo province of Italy have developed symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease (which experts think is related to COVID-19), compared with 19 children in the past five years. ‘Disorder link to COVID-19’, Science News, page 11

A10 Write a miniature book for the toy world. ‘Tiny tale writers required!’, Coronavirus News, page 5

Part B: Pictures

B1 Mr Trash Wheel has been cleaning up the Jones Fall River in America since 2014, and now he’s broken the record for the most debris removed by a trash receptor in a month – 57.4 tonnes! ‘Meet Mr Trash Wheel’, Crazy but True, page 24

B2 With his live YouTube event on 21 May, author and illustrator Rob Biddulph is aiming to break the record for the world’s largest online art lesson by getting 10,000 people to draw along with him! ‘“It’s a very positive, uplifting thing”’, Big Interview, page 20

B3 A sinkhole has opened up outside the Pantheon in Rome, revealing ancient Roman paving stones buried under the city! ‘Pantheon pit appears’, World News, page 10

B4 Eleven-year-old Arlo (pictured on the right next to his brother Henry) has been joining in with neighbourhood dance instructor Charlie’s Dancing in Driveways sessions! ‘Local heroes’, Coronavirus News, page 5

B5 This mini-beast hotel has been one of the activities in Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s live interactive shows. ‘Wildlife lessons’, Your News, page 25

B6 Maria Branyas, aged 113, is the oldest person known to have caught and recovered from coronavirus. ‘Wow!’, Coronavirus News, page 5

B7 A pair of Michael Jordan’s autographed trainers have sold for $560,000 (£463,000). ‘Good week for...’, Big News, page 9

B8 John Daugherty spent more than 300 hours recreating Disneyland using LEGO. ‘LEGO Disneyland’, Crazy but True, page 24

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