Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Dora Allday with an impressive 20, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 19. Andy Reed and Andy Drinkwater both scored 17. The top teams were the Marie Stopes international comms team and the Roberts Family who both scored 20, followed by Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19. Perhaps understandably, those posting their scores from exotic holiday locations did less well than usual. Here is this week's quiz. As always there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.  

There was only one story dominating Thursday's front pages

1. After announcing the prorogation of Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a Queen's Speech would take place on what date to outline his 'very exciting agenda’?

2. Who issued a statement, while on holiday, saying: 'I have had no contact from the government, but if the reports that it is seeking to prorogue parliament are confirmed, this move represents a constitutional outrage’?

3. In her resignation statement, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson said of her time in politics that which achievement 'was - without doubt - the most important contribution of my working life and, I believe, will remain so’?

4. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, reacting to the prorogation of Parliament, said: 'We will be back in Parliament on Tuesday to challenge Boris Johnson on what I think is a ___ ___ ___ raid against our democracy.’ What are the three missing words?

5. Who said he would consider chairing a proposed citizens' forum on Brexit after being asked by MPs including Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper, Frank Field and Caroline Spelman?

6. Who did the Brexit Party select as its candidate in the London seat of Kensington for the next General Election?

7. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was at the centre of an unlikely political dispute when he said which product was exported to Thailand and Iceland but not to the US due to red tape?

8. The Met Office said it was the hottest late August Bank Holiday Monday ever with a top temperature recorded at Heathrow, beating the previous record of 28.2C set two years ago. To the nearest degree in celsius what was the temperature?

9. Why were teenage sisters Isla and Eilidh Noble in the headlines?

10. Cricketer Ben Stokes led England to victory in the third Ashes test with an unbeaten second innings score of how many runs?

11. Speaking outside a New York court, Virginia Giuffre said: 'He knows exactly what he's done - and I hope he comes clean about it.’ Who was she referring to?
12. Services were held on a clifftop in County Sligo to mark the 40th anniversary of what?

13. What is the name of the company that pulled out of a plan to take over doomed football club Bury at the last minute, saying the 'challenges were insurmountable’?

14. A fire engulfed about 40 lorry trailers at which company's factory in Peterborough?

15. French president Emmanuel Macron accused Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro of being 'very disrespectful' to who?

16. US President Donald Trump said a report by website Axios that he had suggested tackling hurricanes heading to America by doing what to them was ‘fake news’?
17. Which company was fined $572million by an Oklahoma court for running a 'false and dangerous' sales campaign that caused addiction and death through a drug epidemic?

18. Seven people, including a German family of four, were killed when a helicopter and a microlight plane collided mid-air over which island?

19. A teenage boy was charged after more than 80 firefighters battled a ‘suspicious' blaze at Woodmill high school in which town?

20. The identity of a graffiti artist, who daubed a 60ft tag on a viaduct near Windsor Castle and angered the Queen, was revealed as Michael Purdy. What pseudonym did he paint on the bridge?

21. A comic actress who appeared in television shows the Frost Report, Not Only But Also and How’s Your Father before becoming a successful stage performer, died this week age 84. Who was she?

22. Former Wales footballer Dean Saunders was jailed for how long by Chester magistrates for failing to provide a breath specimen after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving?

23. Who was promised free spectacles for life by Specsavers?

24. Sir Bradley Wiggins, Olympic gold medalist and Tour de France winner, revealed he is taking a degree to pursue a new career as what?
25. Who caused a Twitter stir by recording her days out in Highgate, Brixton, Shoreditch, Hackney, Soho and Camden?

Answers here