Been paying attention? Here's the newsquiz

There were some impressive scores in last week's newsquiz. The Penmans were the top team with a career high 22. Toby Brown, Liz Gerard and Simon O'Neill were the best individual players, each scoring 20, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 19, Dave Bromage on 18.5 and Damon Wake on 18. It was either a little easier or everyone is paying more attention. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Thursday's front pages

1. What is the name of Theresa May’s third Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union?

2. After fewer ‘no-confidence’ letters than anticipated were sent to the 1922 committee, Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg admitted he had always admired which fictional character?

3. Which EU country accused the UK of ‘treachery', acting 'under the cover of darkness’ and threatened to ‘stop the clock’ on the Brexit negotiations?

4. The Food and Drink Federation told Environment Secretary Michael Gove that what could become unavailable within a fortnight if there is a no-deal Brexit?

5. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, speaking on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday, said what was 'an option for the future’ but 'not an option for today’?
6. Which television programme had to hastily rearrange its schedule after Theresa May pulled out of a live interview at the last-minute?

7. SNP MP Hannah Bardell said she would not apologise to the Speaker for doing what?

8. The co-founder of online gambling firm Bet365 Denise Coates was revealed as the UK's best-paid boss in 2017. How much in total did she receive?

9. What will Wales and France’s rugby players wear this weekend to 'show support to former captain Gareth Thomas’ who was the victim of a homophobic attack in Cardiff?

10. A suicide bombing at a wedding hall in which city killed at least 55 people?

11. Which retailer announced it was to cut 7,500 office jobs worldwide, including 350 in the UK, to focus on its online operation and city centre stores?

12. According to an audit by the Gambling Commission how many youngsters age 11 to 16 have a gambling problem in the UK?

13. Why was 53-year-old Ray Weatherall from Kent in the headlines?

14. Who made an emotional denial on social media, saying he was crying his eyes out, after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman on a train from York to Durham?

15. What is the name of the newspaper group, owners of the i, The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, that went into administration on Saturday?

16. Matthew Hedges, 31, who was jailed for life in the United Arab Emirates for spying, is studying for a PhD at which university?

17. Which international football manager left his job this week after winning only one game - a friendly - in 2018?

18. The newsreader who introduced the first BBC TV news bulletin broadcast in July 1954 died age 93. What was his name?

19. A London council has removed a plaque from a bench in Wanstead High Street which read 'In Loving Memory of ____ ____, 1937-2006.’ Who was the plaque dedicated to?

20. The board of which company voted to sack its chairman, Carlos Ghosn, after his arrest for alleged financial misconduct? 

21. American John Allen Chau was killed by a volley of arrows soon after landing on which Indian island?

22. A 1,000ft-high glass skyscraper, which features outside gondolas, is set to become London's second tallest structure after The Shard? What is its nickname?

23. Animal rights group Peta is urging which Dorset village to change its name as it 'promotes sheep cruelty’?

24. Who denied being married to Jake Hester despite her Wikipedia page claiming she wed him in 2015?

25. Broadcaster Piers Morgan had an online spat with which pop group after accusing them of using sex to sell records?

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