Friday 20 September 2019

Becca wins this week's newsquiz

The trainees with some of the pages they created this week
The Daily Mail's trainee sub-editors and sports journalists had a change of pace this week. They spent three days developing their InDesign, Photoshop and layout skills with Mike Brough. And yesterday and today the sports journalists worked on the sports desk. Isaan Khan went to the Tottenham Hotspur press conference and his article was published online. You can read it here

Lewis Steele was at Manuel Pellegrini's press conference today ahead of West Ham's game against Manchester United on Sunday. The sub-editors spent the last two days doing features with Fiona Webster. As usual we finished the week with the newsquiz and the top score was Becca McAuley with an impressive 20. 
The top solo scorer in last week's quiz was Carson Black, narrowly ahead of trainees Lewis and Kumail Jaffer on 17.5. The top team was Adam Batstone and his Lake District walking pals with 18. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Becca's score. 

Today's front pages

1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would ignore the Commons vote ordering him to delay the UK's EU departure and added: 'The madder ___ gets, the stronger___ gets.’ What is the missing word?
2. How many Supreme Court judges have been hearing challenges arguing that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks is unlawful?
3. Former Prime Minister Sir John Major, in his submission to the Supreme Court, said that Boris Johnson acted like a dishonest what when he prorogued Parliament?
4. Former PM David Cameron was rebuked by Buckingham Palace after revealing he asked The Queen to intervene in the Scottish referendum, telling her that even raising what would make a difference? 

5. In his autobiography For The Record former Prime Minister David Cameron said of which colleague that ‘one quality shone through: disloyalty.’
6. What did David Cameron say in his book was 'one of the proudest moments' of his premiership, although he had ‘wobbled’ over it and faced heated opposition in the Conservative party?
7. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage tweeted: 'The ___ prime minister of Luxembourg set out to ritually humiliate Boris Johnson and mock our country. We want no part in their EU empire.’ What is the missing word?
8. Which former minister quit the Conservatives to join the Liberal Democrats, saying the Government had a 'scorched earth approach' to delivering Brexit?
9. British Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng said the voices of children taking part in the global climate strike today were 'being heard’ but that he 'could not endorse' what?
10. Paedophile Vanessa George, who was released from prison after serving ten years, is to be banned from which two counties? Half a point for each.
11. Former Rangers and Netherlands footballer Fernando Ricksen died at the age of 43, six years after revealing that he had what disease?
12. Why was new father Omar Salem in the headlines? 
13. An 18-carat solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and estimated to be worth £4.8 million, was stolen from where?
14. Saudi Arabia displayed drone and missile fragments which it said showed that an air strike on two oil installations was 'unquestionably sponsored’ by one country and 'did not originate’ from another country. Name the two countries. Half a point for each.
15. Newspapers were making the news this week. Cricketer Ben Stokes described one as ‘despicable', rugby’s Gareth Thomas said another was the 'paper I trust’ and another apologised after saying David Cameron had 'privileged pain' over his son’s death. Name the three newspapers. Half a point for two, one point for all three.
16. Grandmother Mavis Eccleston, 80, was cleared of what at Staffordshire Crown Court?
17. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologised after a photograph emerged of him with a brown face at a school gala in 2001. Which character was he dressed as?
18. England and Scotland play their first Rugby World cup games in Japan on Sunday. Who are their opponents? Half a point for each.
19. Why, according to BBC director general Lord Hall, was there a 'collective sigh of relief issued by leaders and public figures all over the country’ on Thursday?
20. Shares in which company, that has 550 high street stores and employs 22,000 staff, dropped by 20 per cent when markets opened this morning (Friday) following news of its possible collapse?
21. Nine-year-old Ella McEwan and her seven-year-old sister Caitlin, from Southampton, campaigned to stop what? 
22. Who said this week: 'Guys, you’ve got to really go to the doctor … finger up the bum, no harm done’?
23. American musician Ric Ocasek, who died aged 75, fronted which new wave band who had hits with My Best Friend’s Girl and Drive?
24. The songs American Idiot by Green Day. Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus and Mr Brightside by The Killers were in the top five of which list published this week?
25. Streatham rapper Dave was named as the winner of this year's Mercury Prize for his debut album. What is the album called?

Answers here

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