Friday 8 March 2019

Been keeping up with the news? Here's the quiz

There were some first rate scores in last week's newsquiz with lots of you claiming personal bests and others saying it was easier than usual. Pick of the bunch was Gaby Mansell with a record-breaking 24. Toby Brown and Liz Gerard both scored 22, Damon Wake 21, Steve Silk 19.5 and Alan Geere 19. The best team score was the Roberts Family with 21. Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 19, as did Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe. A special mention goes to Ian McCulloch who religiously posts his score - usually single figures - who celebrated a PB of 16. Here is this week's quiz, as usual 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. It may be a bit trickier this week.

Today's front pages
1. What was the name of the 17-year-old girl who was stabbed to death in a park in east London?
2. A 17-year-old boy, Yousef Ghaleb Makki, was stabbed to death in Hale Barns, a village near which town?
3. Home Secretary Sayid Javid said knife crime should be treated ‘like a ____’. What is the missing word?
4. Who wrote an open letter to the Citizens of Europe saying: 'Never, since the Second World War, has Europe been as essential. Yet never has Europe been in so much danger?’
5. MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan said there would 'literally be rioting in the streets’ in her constituency if there was a second referendum on Brexit. Which town does she represent?
6. BMW warned that production of which car at Cowley in Oxfordshire may be at risk if there is a no-deal Brexit?
7. Paula Sherriff, the Labour MP for Dewsbury, was ticked off by the speaker for shouting what two words at Transport Secretary Chris Grayling?
8. Council tax bills in England will increase by an average of what per cent from April, according to the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy?
9. Andrew Hill, 54, whose Hawker Hunter jet ploughed into the A27 in West Sussex, was cleared of how many counts of manslaughter at the Old Bailey?
10. The US ambassador to Britain, Woody Johnson, said the American process of using what to wash chicken was the same as that used by EU farmers to treat fruit and vegetables?
11. John Murphy was charged with assault after hitting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn on the head with what during a visit to a north London mosque?
12. Northern Ireland secretary Karen Bradley faced calls to resign after saying those in the military and police who killed people during The Troubles were 'fulfilling their duty in a ____ and ____ way.’ What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
13. Keith Flint, who died age 49, led the Prodigy to their first UK Number One single in 1996. What was it called?
14. Counter-terror police investigated packages containing explosives found at Heathrow Airport, London City Airport and which London railway station?
15. Who was given a two-match touchline ban and fined £10,000 by the Football Association for confronting referee Mike Dean?
16. Crew and passengers were quarantined for four hours at Gatwick airport after a sickness outbreak on board a Virgin plane flying from where?
17. Luke Perry, best-known for his role in Beverly Hills, 90210, died after suffering a stroke. How old was he?
18. Ray Kelvin, chief executive of which fashion brand, agreed to resign over allegations of inappropriate behaviour?
19. Cycling champion Dr Rachel McKinnon said on Twitter: 'I guarantee that if we posted this photo and asked Do you think it's fair for this trans woman to compete in women's sport? a LOT of people would be screaming NO and calling her a man’. Who was the picture of?
20. Ralph and Jimmy Bulger lost a legal challenge at the High Court to overturn what?
21. Radio stations took Michael Jackson’s music from their playlists, a Simpsons' episode featuring the singer was pulled and a statue of him at a Manchester museum was removed after allegations were made in a documentary called what?
22. At least 23 people were killed when tornadoes struck which American state? 
23. How did Michael Prasek die in his backyard in the village of Zdechov in the Czech Republic?
24. Former BBC DJ Simon Mayo led the line-up on which classical music radio station which started this week?
25. According to Forbes who became the world's youngest self-made billionaire?

Answers here


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