The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

Congratulations to Oliver Milne who scored an astonishing 23 in last week's newsquiz, the joint top score of all time. Well played also to Janet Boyle who, on any other week, would have been the winner with 20.5. Other good scores were Liz Gerard with 19. Toby Brown 17 and Gavin Devine 16.5. Andy Drinkwater recorded a PB of 16, the same score as Dan Williams. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 17.5. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages - before the PM's resignation announcement

1. Theresa May announced today (Friday) that she will resign from the position Conservative party leader on what date?

2. In her resignation speech Theresa May said humanitarian Sir Nicholas Winton told her: 'Never forget that ____ is not a dirty word. Life depends on ____.’ What is the missing word?

3. Bookmakers have made Boris Johnson the favourite to succeed Theresa May as Tory party leader but who, with odds ranging from 7/2 to 5/1, is second favourite?

4. In her letter to the Prime Minister, resigning as leader of the Commons, Andreas Leadsom said: ‘I no longer believe that our approach will deliver on the referendum result, for the following reasons’. How many reasons did she then list?

5. Tory peers Lord Heseltine and Lord Cooper had the party whip suspended after saying they would do what on Thursday (yesterday)?

6. Who claimed that Nigel Farage's Brexit Party was a private company, made up of shareholders, adding: 'You can pay to this party in Russian roubles, American dollars, Malaysian ringgit and, of course, probably to his disdain, euros as well’?

7. What two flavours were in the milkshake thrown over Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage in Newcastle? Half a point for each flavour.

8. What is the name of the private equity group that owns British Steel which has been put into complusory liquidation?

9. Royal Mail announced it is launching 1,400 what in 32 towns and cities across the UK?

10. Why did Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham close at noon today?

11. Which company reported a £1.5billion loss for the half-year, saying there is 'little doubt that the Brexit process has led many UK customers to delay' their plans for this summer?

12. Former Formula 1 champion Niki Lauda, who died age 70, was read the last rites after a crash in 1976 while competing in which country’s Grand Prix?

13. How many of Jamie Oliver’s 25 UK restaurants closed, with the loss of 1,000 jobs, this week?

14. Nurse Sarah Kuteh lost her appeal against dismissal from Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford, Kent, for gross misconduct. What was the misconduct?

15. Steve Clarke, 55, was appointed to which job?

16. Sir Rod Stewart said he was donating £10,000 to what?

17. Manchester City became the first team since Bury in 1903 to do what?

18. Nan Winton, who died age 93, was the first woman to do what?

19. The Queen visited Sainsbury’s in Covent Garden, London, and when introduced to self-service check-outs said to the manager 'You can’t ____ then?’ What is the missing word?

20. A Unesco report, called I’d Blush if I Could, said that what is enforcing gender stereotypes?

21. Which group launched a rescue plan which includes closing 23 UK stores and halving the annual payments to the company's pension scheme?

22. Writer and illustrator Judith Kerr, who died age 95, was well-known for her book The Tiger Who Came to Tea and another series about the cats which started with which 1970 book?

23. More than a million people signed a petition started by a 30-year-old analyst from Texas calling for what?
24. Why was former care worker Jordan Adlard Rogers, 31, in the headlines? 

25. Michael Rice's song Bigger Than Us came last in Eurovision with 16 points but later this was revised to what score?

Answers here