Try the newsquiz - 25 questions about the week

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Steve Silk with 18, narrowly ahead of Andy Drinkwater, Dave Bromage and Liz Gerard on 17. Toby Brown and Gavin Devine scored 16, the same score as the best team which was Bruce and Sarah Hayward. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

The same photo by Jane Barlow of the Press Association graces most of today's front pages (Questions 1-4)

1. Soldiers marched across which bridge, the site of the first liberation in Nazi-occupied France, as part of the commemorations for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings?

2. What role did David Williams-Ellis have in the 75th D-Day commemorations?

3. What was the name of the cruise liner which was chartered by the British Legion to take 300 veterans from Portsmouth to Normandy to commemorate D-Day?
4. What did Tom Rice, Harry Read and John ‘Jock' Hutton, all in their 90s, do again this week?

5. After discussing climate change with Prince Charles, Donald Trump said the US was ‘clean’ but named three countries that 'have not very good air, not very good water, and the sense of pollution’. Name the countries. Half a point for two, one point for all three.

6. Donald Trump tweeted about London mayor Sadiq Khan, saying: 'He is a ___ ___ loser who should focus on crime in London, not me’. What are the two missing words?

7. Piers Morgan presented Donald Trump with what at the end of his exclusive interview on Good Morning Britain?

8. Protestor Amy Beth Dallamura was arrested in Parliament Square after she live-streamed herself doing what?

9. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told a protest rally in Whitehall that 'we will fight with every last breath of our body to defend the principle' of what?

10. Who were the first two candidates to withdraw from the Tory leadership contest? Half a point for each.
11. Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe caused a stir by suggesting that science may yet produce an answer to what?
12. Britain will have a new Prime Minister in the week starting on what date after the Conservatives tightened the rules for electing new leaders?

13. Where did Lisa Forbes marginally beat Mike Greene?

14. Liverpool beat Spurs 2-0 to win the Champions League and become the third most successful club in the competition’s history. How many times have they won the Champions League and its forerunner, the European Cup?

15. Ex-MP and broadcaster George Galloway was sacked by talkRADIO after he tweeted his congratulations to Liverpool on their Champions League victory and added 'No ___ ___ on the cup.’ What are the two missing words?

16. What is the name of the cruise liner that crashed on the Giudecca Canal in Venice, injuring four people?

17. Which company announced it was closing 270 of its 300 offices across the UK in a drive to cut £1.5billion in costs?

18. Ford confirmed it will close its engine plant in September 2020, with the loss of 1,700 jobs, in which town?

19. What, kept in a drawer by an Edinburgh family, turned out to be an object missing for 200 years that could fetch £1million at auction?

20. Johanna Konta became the first British woman since 1983 to do what?

21. Which fund manager apologised to investors after suspending trading in his largest fund - saying the decision to block investors from withdrawing cash was in their best interests?

22. Mac Rebennack, who won multiple Grammys and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, died age 77. How is he better known?

23. The Women’s World Cup starts today (Friday) and England’s first game in on Sunday. Who are they playing?

24. Which TV series won Best Soap at the British Soap Awards 2019?

25. Colin Thackery won this year’s Britain’s Got Talent, with more than a quarter of the public vote, with a rendition of which song?

Answers here