IE Quiz 5/12

Cork actress Siobhán McSweeney (above) is to star alongside fellow Leesider Máiréad Tyers in a new superhero show, Extraordinary, which began filming this week, for which US streaming giant?

Which figure, most associated with Christmas and the winter, has been given a special exemption from international travel restrictions on the weekend of December 25, according to Tánaiste Leo Varadkar in the Dáil this week?

Which Italian soccer boss this week emerged as an unlikely favourite to take the gaffer's chair at English Premiership giants Manchester United?

Irish broadcaster Rick O'Shea's online book club is on its way to raising €30,000 in donations for its annual charity appeal - this year benefiting the DSPCA and Peter McVerry Trust. Which Hollywood actor mucked in to the tune of a grand?

Angela Merkel, former German chancellor (above), was given her military farewell ceremony this week, ending her term after 16 years. But a song by which punk-rock icon was specially arranged for the occasion?

Another Christmas tradition is set to kick off again in venues around the city next week, after some uncertainty about whether it might happen in the current circumstance. Is it...?

The UK's business competition watchdog has instructed social media panopticon Meta (fka Facebook), to divest itself of which of its subsidiaries, over its effective stranglehold on display advertising?

Which State business this week was able to announce it had eliminated the gender gap in pay among its staff?

Four-time All-Ireland winner Seánie O'Leary (above) passed away this week, hailed by team-mates and opponents alike as one of the greatest goalscorers of all time in hurling. While he's best remembered for being part of Cork hurling's seventies golden age, what club did he line out for?

Last but not least - this week the Irish Examiner won six NewsBrands Ireland Journalism Awards for 2021 - two of which went to our own Aoife Moore and Paul Hosford - but for which story?