Friday 15 February 2019

Tackle this week's newsquiz

The top solo score in last week's newsquiz was Liz Gerard with 18, ahead of Janet Boyle on 16. The top team score was by the Roberts family also with 18. Here is this week's quiz - 25 questions about the week. Let me know how you get on. 

Friday's front pages
1. The Government's motion endorsing Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans was rejected by what majority?
2. Business minister Richard Harrington accused members of which Tory group of ‘treachery’ over Brexit?
3. Downing Street blamed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for the motion defeat, saying he had 'yet again put ___ considerations ahead of the national interest’. What is the missing word?
4. Defence secretary Gavin Williamson announced a plan to convert two passenger ferries or cargo vessels into what?
5. Inflation dropped to what per cent last month - its lowest level in two years - as wholesale energy prices tumbled. 
6. The shadow chancellor John McDonnell said that Winston Churchill was a villain rather than a hero, because of his role in what?
7. Shamima Begum, the pregnant 19-year-old who fled to Syria to marry an Islamic State fighter and is seeking to come home, was brought up in which London district?
8. England cricketer Joe Root responding to a question from West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel by saying: 'Don’t use it as an insult. Nothing wrong with being gay’? What was Gabriel’s question?
9. He became famous in 1960 with the lead role in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his last film was Skyfall in which he played a gamekeeper from James Bond’s childhood. Who is he?
10. Which BBC current affairs programme is to finish after its presenter announced he was stepping down after 16 years?
11. Which bank reported profits of £1.62bn for 2018, more than double the £752m it made in 2017?
12. A fire swept through the Arpit Palace Hotel, killing at least 17 people, in which city?
13. What is the name of the rover which has been on Mars for 15 years that has been declared dead by NASA?
14. Whose hand-written letter said: 'Please stop lying, please stop creating so much pain, please stop exploiting my relationship with my husband’?
15. Buckingham Palace released a statement, saying that after 'careful consideration' the Duke of Edinburgh had taken what decision?
16. Which football team suffered its biggest ever Premier League defeat and its biggest in any competition since they lost 7-0 to Nottingham Forest in 1971?
17. A man was arrested on suspicion of triple murder after the bodies of three elderly men, including twins, were found within 24 hours of each other in which city?
18. What was officially made illegal, with a maximum sentence of two years in jail, after a Bill received Royal Assent in the House of Lords?
19. How many caps did Gordon Banks, who died this week age 81, win for England?
20. The hashtag, #FakeTrump____, was among the top trending topics in the United States on Twitter today (Friday). What is the missing word?
21. Who went topless on Sky news programme The Pledge as a tribute to Dr Victoria Bateman?
22. The FBI is investigating whether which musician committed a crime by engaging in sexually explicit communications with an underage fan?
23. How many awards did The Favourite win at the BAFTAs?
24. Michael Rice was chosen to represent the UK in what?
25.  Former squadron leader and prisoner of war Dick Churchill, who died age 99, was the last surviving member of a team immortalised in which Hollywood movie?

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