Friday 5 July 2019

Have a crack at this week's newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week's newsquiz were Toby Brown and Gavin Devine who both notched up 19, just ahead of Liz Gerard and Janet Boyle who scored 18. The best team was the Roberts family on 20, ahead of the Penmans and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe who scored 18. Here's 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. 


A selection of today's front pages

1. What did Tory leadership candidate Jeremy Hunt describe as 'part of our heritage’, adding 'I'm happy for people to do it’?
2. Tory leadership candidate Boris Johnson said that: 'A new tax on ____ seems to me to clobber those who can least afford it.’ What is the missing word?
3. Which Tory grandee said he would not be voting for Boris Johnson because 'do and then die' could very easily be the outcome’?
4. Brexit party MEPs turned their backs while the EU anthem played at the opening of the European Parliament. The anthem is an instrumental arrangement from the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony known as what?

5. In her maiden speech to the European Parliament, Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdicombe mentioned three types of oppressed groups who had turned on their oppressors. Slaves against their owners was one. Name the other two oppressed groups. Half a point for each. 
6. In a row over Hong Kong, Chinese Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt 'seems to be fantasizing in the faded glory of ___ ___ and obsessed with the bad habit of criticising and lecturing on other countries’ affairs condescendingly’. What are the two missing words?
7. The Cabinet Office said it was to investigate briefings given by civil servants to The Times that said Jeremy Corbyn was too ____ to be PM. What is the missing word?
8. Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman to be nominated for what position?
9. Which company announced it could close 700 high street shops, putting 4,500 jobs at risk, blaming Government legislation that came into force in April?
10. At least one person was killed when a volcano erupted on which European island?
11. US footballer Alex Morgan, the scorer of the goal that put the Lionesses out of the World Cup, caused a stir by celebrating by pretending to do what?
12. A man was killed when he fell into a London garden from a plane heading to Heathrow from which city?
13. What was the name of the baby boy who was delivered by emergency services - after his mother, 26-year-old Kelly Mary Fauvrelle, was stabbed to death in London - but died days later?
14. What attracted the highest peak television audience of the year so far in the UK with 11.7 million viewers this week?
15. An anti-aircraft missile fired from Syria exploded in which country after missing its intended target?
16. How were 64-year-old Gareth Delbridge and 58-year-old Michael Lewis killed?
17. What is the name of the 15-year-old who beat five-time champion Venus Williams on the opening day of Wimbledon?

18. Which company announced it was to 'create a powerhouse of electrification in the Midlands’?
19. Members of a gang behind the biggest modern-day slavery network in the UK were jailed after Birmingham Crown Court heard they recruited more than 400 victims from which country?
20. Grieving father Lloyd Jones was denied permission by Disney to put whose image on the grave of his four-year-old son, Ollie, in Maidstone?
21. Who became the first-ever English cricketer to score two back-to-back hundreds in world cup history?
22. What did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex say 'will remain private’ following the Christening of their son Archie on Saturday?
23. How old was racing journalist and broadcaster John McCririck who died this week?
24. Which singer was denied entry to Iran, the last country she had to visit as part of a five-year, 200-stop 'total world tour’?
25. Alex Mann, 15, went viral after he was called up on stage by rapper Dave at Glastonbury to perform a track dedicated to which footballer?

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