Time to tackle the newsquiz

There were some good scores in last week's newsquiz. Pick of the bunch was Janet Boyle with 20.5, just ahead of Liz Gerard on 20. Jamie Johnson was next on 16. The Roberts Family were the top team with 17, just pipping Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 16.5 and the Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey and Bryan on 16. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Today's front pages

1. Which former deputy chairman of the Conservative Party became the 11th MP to join the contest to succeed Theresa May as Tory party leader?

2. Tory leadership candidate Rory Stewart apologised for a 'very stupid mistake’ for doing what while travelling in Iran?

3. Boris Johnson was summoned to court to face accusations of misconduct in public office over claims that he lied by saying Britain gave how much a week to the European Union?

4. Labour deputy leader Tom Watson, commenting on the expulsion of Alastair Campbell for voting Lib Dem, said: 'It is ____ to resort to expulsions when the NEC should be listening to members’. What is the missing word? 

5. The Brexit Party won 31.6 per cent of the votes and how many seats in the European elections? 

6. Who said he was not quitting, adding: 'I do feel that now is a time in which momentous events are taking place and there are great issues to be resolved and in those circumstances, it doesn't seem to me sensible to vacate the chair.’?

7. Former MP Michael Spicer, who died age 76, was the founder of which political group?

8. Who was criticised by London mayor Sadiq Khan for tweeting that the UK capital was 'not really an English city any more’?

9. A Government-commissioned review recommended cutting annual fees for university courses from £9,250 to what figure from 2021?

10. At least seven people were killed when a pleasure boat collided with another boat on which river?

11. After viewers commented on technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on BBC Breakfast on Thursday, he tweeted that he had been diagnosed with what?

12. A seven-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after falling off the Twister rollercoaster at which amusement park?
13. An investigation by the website Pulse revealed that in the last six years 583 premises had closed … 138 of them last year. What are they?

14. Sarah Barrass appeared at which crown court accused of murdering her 14 and 13-year-old sons?

15. After special counsel Robert Mueller reiterated that his inquiry did not exonerate Donald Trump of obstruction of justice, the President tweeted that the inquiry was: 'The Greatest Presidential ____ in history. ‘ What is the missing word?

16. The inquest into the deaths of the victims of the London Bridge attacks heard that the terrorists used 12-inch pink kitchen knives which had been bought from which store?

17. Which chain store is reviewing its portfolio of nearly 2,500 shops in the UK as its US parent company attempts to cut $1billion (£790billion) in costs?

18. Where did Robin Haynes Fisher, 44, from Birmingham and 56-year-old Irishman Kevin Hynes die?

19. Arsenal forward Henrikh Mkyhitaryan chose not to play in the Europa League final in Baku because of fears for his safety due to his nationality. What country is he from?

20. A knifeman murdered a 12-year-old girl, a 39-year-old man and stabbed 18 people, mostly schoolgirls, on a school bus in which country?

21. England won the opening game of the Cricket World Cup by beating which country by 104 runs?

22. A jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court unaminously cleared singer Oritse Williams, formerly of which boyband, of rape?

23. It was revealed that who earned £7,768,448 in prize-money by winning 534 horse races from 3,205 runs over the last 31 years? 

24. What was the name of the Banksy artwork on a garage wall in Port Talbot that was moved by lorries to an art gallery?
25. Which act was withdrawn from the Britain's Got Talent live semi-finals for health and safety reasons after they refused to reveal the content of their act?

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