Friday 14 December 2018

Been keeping up with the news ... try the quiz

There were some high scores in last week's newsquiz. Toby Brown scored a 'storming' 22 - a personal best. On any other week Simon O'Neill with 20 would have been a worthy winner. The top teams were The Penmans with 19.5 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 18. Others worth a mention include Damon Wake on 18.5, Gavin Devine 18, Liz Gerard 18, Steve Silk 17.5, Hannah Tomes 16, Philip Hutchinson-May 15 and Matt Piper 15. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 


Thursday's front pages are dominated by
Theresa May winning the vote of no confidence  
1. Theresa May won the vote of no confidence by what majority?
2. What is the name of the 1922 Committee chairman who read out the vote of no confidence result?
3. Why was Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle escorted off the Parliamentary estate?
4. Tory MP Nadine Dorries said: 'The Prime Minister is in a bunker, she's starring in her own episode of ____, and we all know how that story ends.’ What is the missing film title?
5. Who, in a speech in Dublin, said: 'Whether you are a Remainer or Leaver, no one can welcome chaos. The clock must be stopped without delay. We need the most precious commodity of all - time’?
6. European spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said that British holidaymakers will be charged how many euros for a three-year visa if there is no Brexit deal?
7. Which fashion chain warned it could slip to a full-year loss of up to £4million saying ‘we believe that uncertainty surrounding Brexit is a significant factor‘?
8. A high-speed train crashed and hit a pedestrian overpass at a station killing nine people and injuring 40 in which city?
9. Why was 29-year-old Chérif Chekatt in the headlines?
10. Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, was sentenced to how many years in prison for crimes including lying to Congress and illegal payments to silence two women?
11. British couple Susan and Roger Clarke, 70 and 72, were arrested in Portugal on what charge?
12. Speaking about Raheem Sterling's racist abuse at Chelsea, ex-footballer John Barnes said invisible what were thrown at black players every day?
13. Harry Redknapp became the oldest ever winner of I’m A Celebrity. How old is he?
14. Sondra Locke, who died age 74, co-starred in six films with her one-time partner but later sued him for fraud? Who is he?
15. Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch announced that what would end in 2019?
16. Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay $5million in a copyright case over the song Blurred Lines that Marvin Gaye's family claimed copied which 1977 hit?
17. New Zealand's justice minister said which company could face prosecution for sending a mass email which included the name of the man accused of murdering backpacker Grace Millane?
18. A video went viral of a man running and jumping two-footed on a tent containing two homeless people in a shop doorway in which city?
19. Who said she was 'thrilled and not a little daunted' to be stepping into the shoes of one of her heroes?
20. What was been launched by Walkers Crisps after it was targeted by protesters? 
21. What group of people were named as Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year?
22. Why will westbound routes into Wales across the Severn Bridges be closed for the next three nights?
23. Police in London investigated a break-in at the £10million St John's Wood home of which musician?
24. Stars including Emily Blunt and Colin Firth graced what colour carpet at the premier of Mary Poppins Returns at the Royal Albert Hall?
25. A BBC project to replace and expand the external set of which television programme is £27million over budget?

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