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Hello, I am Andy Zoltzman and you are about to listen to the news quiz.

We recorded this show before the news broke that Donald Trump had tested positive for

COVID-19. We actually record these shows 12 months in advance and usually the BBC's

News This Time Next Year predicting mega-computer is incredibly accurate, but it did miss this

story by a few hours.

We hope that the president not only recovers, but also gets considerably better in general.

On with this week's news quiz.

Yes, those people you can hear there are online, live, audience joining us from the comfort

of their own homes and or castles via the pimp-top yoghurt pots and super tech string that

is the internet and what a clash they will be audience-ing.

Is that a verb? Yes, but there is nothing that cannot be verbbed these days.

What a clash this week. We have team shut up against team shut down and on team shut up

we have Jennifer Friedman and Simon Evans.

And lining up against team shut up we have team shut down Mark Nelson and Zoe Lyons.

Right, it's time for question one. I'm not expecting anyone on the panel to get any questions

right this week. This is the BBC. I'm just going to try and trick them into getting the answers wrong

with the classic BBC rules asking them questions to which they should obviously know the answers.

That kind of gotcha trap that ministers sell often for.

Question one. Our first question this week is to team shut up to Jenna and Simon.

And the question is this. Imagine that American democracy is a dog.

What is the state of health of that dog and B, what is the condition of the carpet it has been lying on?

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