Jemma wins 'toughie' newsquiz

The MailOnline trainees pitched stories to assistant Femail editor Steph Linning and travel editor Ted Thornhill this week. Some have been written and are awaiting publication. The trainees also had sessions with senior journalists Mark Duell and Chris Pleasance and recent trainee Tim Stickings. There was a run through the editor’s code and IPSO with Editor Emeritus Peter Wright. They also took a brief cake break to celebrate John Bennett's birthday. John had another reason to celebrate ... he won the video headline of the week.

Piece of cake: Trainee John Bennett celebrates his birthday with the other trainees

We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz. The trainees all reckoned it was a toughie and, for the first time this course, none of them reached double figures. The top scorer with 9.5 was Jemma Carr. 

Last week's top online scorer was Toby Brown with a score of 21, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 18. The top team was the Roberts family with 19. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and see if you think it's a tough one.  

Today's front pages

1. Which former Tory minister succeeded in getting the Commons to back his call for eight indicative votes on Brexit?

2. Three Government ministers resigned on Monday night so they could vote to give Parliament control over Brexit. Name any two of them. Half a point for each 

3. Which of the eight Brexit options that MPs voted for on Wednesday received 268 Yes votes, more than any of the others?

4. 160 MPs voted for No Deal in the eight options. How many voted against?

5. Writing in the Daily Mail, Jacob-Rees Mogg said he was willing to support Theresa May’s Brexit plan on one condition. What was the condition?

6. Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told Theresa May to 'channel the spirit' of which Biblical character as he argued she should embrace a no-deal scenario?

7. The Independent Group of defecting MPs, under the interim leadership of Heidi Allen, registered as a full-blown political party called what?

8. Uri Geller wrote to Theresa May saying: 'I love you very much but I will not allow you to lead Britain into Brexit. As much as I admire you, I will stop you ____ from doing this and believe me I am capable of executing it.’ What is the missing word?

9. All charges against The Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of arranging a fake racist and homophobic attack on himself, were dropped by a court in which US city?

10. What was the name of the cruise ship, carrying more than 1,300 passengers, that got into trouble in stormy seas off Norway?

11. Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti explained why Pope Francis discouraged people from kissing his ring, saying: 'The Holy Father told me that the motivation was very simple: ____’ What is the missing word?

12. A British Airways plane, which mistakenly flew passengers to Edinburgh instead of Düsseldorf, left from which airport?

13. Wow Air, which stopped all flights and stranded thousands of passengers, is an airline from which country?

14. Rockland County in New York state banned anyone under 18 from all public places if they did not have what?

15. England football manager Gareth Southgate said his players encountered ‘unacceptable’ racist abuse in their 5-1 win against which country?

16. Ranking Roger Charlery, who died age 56, was a vocalist with which 1980s band?

17. Florida Senator Rick Scott called for what to be cancelled, saying it 'provides unwarranted legitimacy to a dictatorship with a decades-long history of persecuting and imprisoning its defectors and repressing its people’? 

18. Following the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that neither Donald Trump nor his aides colluded with the Russians in the 2016 election, the president tweeted: 'No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total ____. Keep America Great!’ What is the missing word?

19. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was given the full-time job of managing Manchester United this week after winning how many of his 19 games in charge as caretaker?

20. Both members of which Liverpool band died while travelling to a gig in California?

21. Which department store chain agreed a £200million refinancing deal which offered 'reassurance for employees, pension holders, suppliers and lenders’?

22. Labour peer and fertility specialist Prof Robert Winston called for all bikes to have what after he was kicked and abused for challenging a woman cycling on the pavement?

23. Who said of whom this week: 'She's going to hate me for this because she's all posh in her country house with her husband?’ Half a point for each name?

24. Which television series received 14 Bafta nominations?

25. Why was opera singer Anna Patalong asked to change the dress she wore during her Royal Albert Hall concert?

Answers here