Friday 28 June 2019

Time to tackle the newsquiz

Going by the results it was a tougher newsquiz than average last week. The top solo scorer was Janet Boyle with 17. Toby Brown scored 16 and Liz Gerard 15. The top team was The Penmans with 18 followed by Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 15. It might be a little easier this week (although it is always hard to judge). Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages
1. In an interview with talkRadio, Tory leadership candidate Boris Johnson said: 'We are getting ready to come out on 31 October. Come what may. ___ ___ ___. Come what may.’ What are the three missing word?
2. What did Tory leader contender Boris Johnson say he made out of wooden crates to relax?
3. What word, which was censored by the BBC, did Tory leadership contender Boris Johnson use to describe the French while being filmed for a documentary?
4. Tory leadership contender Boris Johnson said it wasn't 'a state secret’ but he refused to comment on how old it was? What was he referring to?
5. In a Twitter Q&A Tory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt said he wanted to: 'Deliver a Brexit that works for the 48 per cent not just the 52 per cent – a positive open and internationalist Brexit. Great Britain, not ___ ___’. What are the two missing words?
6. What did Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg describe as ‘pious’ and ‘hypocritical lefties’? 
7. Former deputy prime minister John Prescott was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary after suffering what?
8. Cory Booker, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Tulsi Gabbard and Jay Inslee were among the ten people who took part in what this week?
9. A shocking picture was used worldwide of the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria, lying face down in shallow water in which river?
10. Sir Jonathan Ive announced he was leaving which company, where he had been lead designer for more than two decades, to set up his own venture called LoveFrom?
11. There were searches held all week for 22-year-old holiday-camp worker Rosie Johnson who went missing where on Sunday evening?
12. At least 12 people died and 20 more were infected by the deadly strain of invasive Group A streptococcus in which county?
13. An Air India airliner was escorted by RAF Typhoon fighter jets as it made a 'precautionary landing' at which airport after a reported bomb threat?
14. Which author, who sold more than 85million copies worldwide of her ten novels - including Scruples and Princess Daisy - died this week?
15. On Wednesday Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic broke what record?
16. Who confirmed that the master tapes of her hit albums Tuesday Night Music Club and The Globe Sessions were among those destroyed in a fire at Universal Studios 11 years ago?
17. Why were Manchester City footballer Riyad Mahrez and his wife Rita ordered to pay more than £3,600 to Catalina Miraflores?
18. The case against 58-year-old Valerie Sanders was thrown out of Teesside Crown Court when she accepted a two-year restraining order. What was she originally accused of doing to her husband?
19. Who accused whom of blocking her for a plum TV role and then ignoring her attempt to patch things up with an 'olive branch coffee’? Half a point for both names.
20. Fifa announced this week that proceedings had been opened by its disciplinary committee for alleged breaches related to article 52 (team misconduct) and article 57 (offensive behaviour and fair play) of the Fifa Disciplinary Code by which football team?
21. Why were Tom Penn and Eve Leigh in the headlines?
22. Muhammed and Olivia were top of what?
23. Who tweeted, after being mocked over his grey hair by a border guard, that: ‘There’s a serious truth here. We are all massively conscious that we mustn’t behave or speak in ways that are sexist, or racist... but ageism is alive and well.’ 
24. TV presenters Ant and Dec called for who to quit - describing them as ‘disastrous’ and saying they ‘should be ashamed’?
25. Organisers of Glastonbury announced that what 'would not be available to purchase at this year’s Festival’ and 'will also no longer be supplied or available in any of the Festival’s backstage, production, catering and dressing room areas’?

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