Friday 10 May 2019

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with a huge 21.5. Other good scores were Gavin Devine with 19.5, Janet Boyle 19, Jaymes Bryla 17.5, Liz Gerard and Steve Silk 17 and Ginger Elvis 16. The best teams were Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 20, the Roberts family with 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 18.5. 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. 



1. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex's son is called Archie Harrison ... and what other name?
2. What weight was the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s baby at birth?
3. Who said this week: ‘It was one of those moments when I wanted the ground to open and swallow me up. It was extremely embarrassing … it was a brain freeze, like for an actor on stage’?
4. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo urged the UK not to do a deal with Huawei, saying: 'Ask yourself, would the ___ ___ be silent when China violates the sovereignty of nations through corruption or coercion?’ What are the two missing words?
5. Lib Dem leader Vince Cable defended his party’s Euro-elections slogan, saying: 'There is also something called humour, okay maybe as a country we have lost our sense of humour but it is an attempt to put in a more pungent way, what an awful lot of people think’. What is the slogan?
6. At Prime Minister’s Question Time Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Theresa May to 'take some tips' from who 'on how to get a good result in Europe.’ 
7. Forty-one people were killed when a plane owned by which airline made an emergency landing at a Moscow airport after being struck by lightning?
8. An inquest into those killed in the London Bridge terror attacks heard that Spaniard Ignacio Echeverria was stabbed to death after hitting one of the three terrrorists with what?
9. According to research, published in the British Medical Journal, the 'sheer pace of modern life’ may be responsible for a fall in what?
10. What did 89-year-old Robert Phillips, who lives in Florida, send back to the UK after 60 years?
11. Rachael Warburton, 33, of Leigh, Greater Manchester, called for what Netflix drama to be banned after her 12-year-old daughter killed herself after watching it?
12. Israel said it will block activists, protesting against its treatment of the Palestinians, who plan to disrupt what event due to be held next weekend?
13. Guinness World Records apologised for an earlier decision and awarded Jessica Anderson with a world record for doing what?
14. Holland & Barrett is set to become the first UK high street retailer to stop selling what?
15. Why was ex-Atomic Kitten singer Kerry Katona fined almost £1,000, including costs, by Brighton Magistrates Court?
16. Spanish newspapers ran headlines that translate as ‘Embarrasing,’ ‘Historic failure’ and ‘The biggest farce in history’ this week. What event were they referring to?
17. He was born Frederick Leslie Fowell, was lead singer with Liverpool pop group the Midniters, had a television career after appearing on Opportunity Knocks and was the subject of one of the best-known tabloid newspaper headlines. Who was he?
18. Why was 14-year-old Oakley Cannonier hailed a hero in Liverpool?
19. Australia's latest 50 dollar note has an embarrassing typo. What word is misspelt?
20. The court crest from Westminster Magistrates was taken in an Argos carrier bag to where?
21. Which company was valued at $82billion (£63billion) ahead of its share listing in one of the biggest stock market flotations of the year?
22. Who described his sacking this week as 'a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity’?
23. Marks & Spencer introduced a controversial sandwich based on the traditional BLT - bacon, lettuce and tomato - called the LGBT. What does the G stand for? 
24. Who scored a hat-trick for Tottenham Hotspur to beat Ajax in the European Champions League semi-final?
25. Why did a takeaway cup from a coffee shop in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, go viral this week?

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