Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Jake Hurfurt and Toby Brown who both scored 20, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 18. The Roberts Family were ’delirious’ after totting-up a record-equalling 23. A great score ... well done to them. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the events of the last seven days. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

1. Who became the 13th sitting Liberal Democrat MP after winning the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election?

2. Six parties stood in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election but which one came last with 242 votes?

3. Chancellor Sajid Javid announced how much in extra money 'to help the country prepare for a no-deal Brexit'?

4. On his visit to Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was told by Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald that 'he needs to ensure he is not the DUP's ____'. What is the missing animal?

5. Prime Minister Boris Johnson posed clutching what when he visited a farm in Newport?

6. Who wrote a letter to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn saying: 'I see no strategy in place that remotely meets the electoral or policy challenges ahead. On the contrary, in so far as I ascertain a strategy at all, it is one that looks more designed to lose’? 

7. The chief executive of which car company reported falling profits of 29 per cent, warned a no-deal Brexit would be a 'lose-lose' scenario and offered to travel to the UK to deliver the message to Boris Johnson in person?
8. Which Cabinet minister was told by 10 Downing Street that his views, expressed in The Times, that sex crime suspects should remain anonymous until charged were 'not Government policy’? 

9. Around 6,500 people were evacuated from which town after the Toddbrook Reservoir dam was damaged in heavy rains?

10. The Met Office revealed that the UK’s ten hottest years on record all happened since what year?
11. Three people were killed and 15 injured by a gunman at a festival in California which was celebrating what food?

12. Egan Bernal, 22, became the first cyclist from which country to win the Tour de France?

13. According to P&O a 'mass brawl' which broke out on the Britannia cruise ship returning to Southampton from Norway was not caused by what?

14. Grant Thornton quit as auditors of which company following concerns over the disclosure of a €674million tax bill from the Belgian government?

15. At least 57 inmates, including 16 who were decapitated, died in a prison riot that broke out in which country?

16. To the nearest million how many old round £1 coins, which were replaced by the 12-sided version in 2017, are still in circulation, according to the Royal Mint?

17. Where were New Zealand's prime minister Jacinda Ardern, Hollywood actress Jane Fonda and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg seen together?

18. Cambridge University student Alana Cutland fell to her death from a plane in which country?

19. How did 18-year-old jockey Khadijah Mellah make history at Goodwood?

20. According to research published in the British Medical Journal cases of which disease in the UK are forecast to be more than 8,000 ... three times higher than previous estimates?

21. Where did the phrase ‘not fit for purpose’ become not fit for purpose?

22. Why was 15-year-old Jaden Ashman from Hornchurch, London, in the headlines?

23. Which singer was ordered, by a US court, to pay gospel artist Flame $550,000 (£454,000) for copying one of his songs?

24. Former England goalkeeper David James said he was persuaded to do what by ex-swimmer Mark Foster?

25. The BBC revealed that which show had lost more than 780,000 listeners since January?

Answers here