The 15 Daily Mail editorial trainees - news reporters, sports journalists and sub-editors - had a busy first week in Derry Street. They enjoyed sessions with executive editor Ben Taylor, managing editor Alex Bannister, investigative reporter Sian Boyle and former trainees Eleanor Sharples and Dora Allday. The reporters pitched stories to chief reporter Sam Greenhill and the sports journalists to consultant sports editor Jim Mansell. The subs had sessions with senior sub David Felstein. Amelia Clarke won a scratchcard for the best intro of the week and Kathryn Batte won one for the best headline. We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz ... 25 questions about the week’s events. The winner was Aloysius Atkinson with an impressive score of 20, narrowly beating Lewis Steele and Becca McAuley who both scored 18. In last week’s quiz there were three joint top solo scorers - Elly Rewcastle, Janet Boyle and Liz Gerard on 18. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 18.5. My drinking pals from the Three Legs Brewery - Peter, Stacey, Nicky, Les and Rosie - scored a commendable 16. Here is this week’s quiz. Can you beat Aloysius’s score of 20? Give it a go and let me know how you get on.
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1. Twenty-one Tories sided with the Opposition on Tuesday night, to back a Bill allowing MPs to take control of Commons Business, and defeat the Government by how many votes?
2. Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his Commons majority, while at the despatch box, when which former minister crossed the floor and joined the Liberal Democrats?
3. Who reacted to losing the Tory whip by saying of the party: 'It’s been taken over by a rather knockabout sort of character, who’s got this bizarre crash-it-through philosophy ... a Cabinet which is the most Rightwing Cabinet any Conservative party has ever produced’?
4. Asked if he could promise to never seek a Brexit delay from the EU, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: 'Yes, I can. I’d rather be ___ ___ ___ ___.' What are the four missing words.
5. What did Labour MP Anna Turley call the 'physical embodiment of arrogance, entitlement, disrespect and contempt for our parliament’ and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas say was 'contemptuous of this house and of the people’?
6. The Prime Minister’s brother Jo Johnson resigned as a junior minister and said he would also step down as a member of parliament for which constituency?
7. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was called ‘childish, ‘homophobic’ and ‘a mysoginist’ after mouthing what insult at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over his refusal to vote for a General Election?
8. What is the name of the rescued Jack Russell cross puppy who moved into 10 Downing Street? Correct spelling please.
9. Chancellor Sajid Javid announced 'the end of austerity' with the biggest increase in spending on public services for 15 years. How much did he promise?
10. What is the name of the hurricane that killed at least 20 people in the Bahamas before moving on to America’s east coast?
11. What was the name of the diving boat that caught fire off Santa Barbara in California killing 34 people?
12. Which company was demoted from the FTSE 100 for the first time in its history after its value fell below the threshold for inclusion?
13. What nationality was 22-year-old Anthoine Hubert who was killed in a Formula 2 race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium?
14. Princess Charlotte was pictured arriving on her first day at which private school?
15. A spat between former England strikers Alan Shearer and Michael Owen was rekindled with the publication of Owen’s autobiography. What is the book called?
16. Why was Pope Francis late for his public prayers in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Sunday?
17. What did Simon and Sally Fenton discover when they returned home to Newbury from their French holiday?
18. Robert Mugabe, whose brutal rule turned Zimbabwe into an international outcast, died at the age of 95 in which country?
19. Scientists from New Zealand’s Otago University, who analysed 3,000 species in Loch Ness, said they couldn’t rule out a theory that what creature may have grown to an extreme size?
20. TV and radio presenter Helen Skelton revealed that how much had been taken from her bank account by telephone scammers?
21. More than 100 parents and pupils gathered outside Priory School in Lewes, East Sussex, to protest about what new rule?
22. Australian cricket writer Peter Lalor was mistakenly charged £55,300 for what at the Malmaison Hotel in Manchester?
23. Dean Holland, 45, and his partner were fined more than £9,000 by magistrates and told by the council to leave their Bradford home after they flouted an order to stop doing what?
24. Who won the most stylish man prize at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards?
25. Pop stars, artists and royalty were among the guests at the wedding of singer Ellie Goulding and art dealer Caspar Jopling at which church?
2. Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his Commons majority, while at the despatch box, when which former minister crossed the floor and joined the Liberal Democrats?
3. Who reacted to losing the Tory whip by saying of the party: 'It’s been taken over by a rather knockabout sort of character, who’s got this bizarre crash-it-through philosophy ... a Cabinet which is the most Rightwing Cabinet any Conservative party has ever produced’?
4. Asked if he could promise to never seek a Brexit delay from the EU, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: 'Yes, I can. I’d rather be ___ ___ ___ ___.' What are the four missing words.
5. What did Labour MP Anna Turley call the 'physical embodiment of arrogance, entitlement, disrespect and contempt for our parliament’ and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas say was 'contemptuous of this house and of the people’?
6. The Prime Minister’s brother Jo Johnson resigned as a junior minister and said he would also step down as a member of parliament for which constituency?
7. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was called ‘childish, ‘homophobic’ and ‘a mysoginist’ after mouthing what insult at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over his refusal to vote for a General Election?
8. What is the name of the rescued Jack Russell cross puppy who moved into 10 Downing Street? Correct spelling please.
9. Chancellor Sajid Javid announced 'the end of austerity' with the biggest increase in spending on public services for 15 years. How much did he promise?
10. What is the name of the hurricane that killed at least 20 people in the Bahamas before moving on to America’s east coast?
11. What was the name of the diving boat that caught fire off Santa Barbara in California killing 34 people?
12. Which company was demoted from the FTSE 100 for the first time in its history after its value fell below the threshold for inclusion?
13. What nationality was 22-year-old Anthoine Hubert who was killed in a Formula 2 race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium?
14. Princess Charlotte was pictured arriving on her first day at which private school?
15. A spat between former England strikers Alan Shearer and Michael Owen was rekindled with the publication of Owen’s autobiography. What is the book called?
16. Why was Pope Francis late for his public prayers in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City, on Sunday?
17. What did Simon and Sally Fenton discover when they returned home to Newbury from their French holiday?
18. Robert Mugabe, whose brutal rule turned Zimbabwe into an international outcast, died at the age of 95 in which country?
19. Scientists from New Zealand’s Otago University, who analysed 3,000 species in Loch Ness, said they couldn’t rule out a theory that what creature may have grown to an extreme size?
20. TV and radio presenter Helen Skelton revealed that how much had been taken from her bank account by telephone scammers?
21. More than 100 parents and pupils gathered outside Priory School in Lewes, East Sussex, to protest about what new rule?
22. Australian cricket writer Peter Lalor was mistakenly charged £55,300 for what at the Malmaison Hotel in Manchester?
23. Dean Holland, 45, and his partner were fined more than £9,000 by magistrates and told by the council to leave their Bradford home after they flouted an order to stop doing what?
24. Who won the most stylish man prize at the GQ Men Of The Year Awards?
25. Pop stars, artists and royalty were among the guests at the wedding of singer Ellie Goulding and art dealer Caspar Jopling at which church?
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