Friday 11 October 2019

It's newsquiz time: 25 questions about the week

Becca McAuley continued her run of form, which saw her win the Champagne for being the top news-quizzing trainee two weeks ago, by coming top in last week’s newsquiz with a personal best of 21. She was narrowly ahead of Toby Brown on 20. Other good scorers were Dominic Hurst 18.5, Liz Gerard 18 and Lydia Willgress 17. Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe were the top teams with 18. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Today's front pages
1. What happened at the outbreak of war in 1939, during the Suez crisis in 1956 and after the invasion of the Falklands in 1982 … and is set to happen again next week?
2. EU president Donald Tusk this week tweeted: 'Boris Johnson, what’s at stake is not winning some stupid ___ ___. At stake is the future of Europe and the UK as well as the security and interests of our people.’ What are the two missing words?
3. What is the name of the Grade II listed 19th Century country house on the Wirral in Merseyside where Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar?
4. Former Conservative MP Heidi Allen became the seventh MP this year to do what?
5. A Leave.EU poster of German chancellor Angela Merkel with the words 'we didn’t win two world wars to be pushed around by a ___' was condemned by MPs and deleted. What is the missing word?
6. US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri confirmed to ITV's Good Morning Britain that she had what 'codename' for Boris Johnson on her phone?
7. Paralympian James Brown climbed on top of a British Airways plane at which airport as part of the Extinction Rebellion protest?
8. Who told a crowd at Extinction Rebellion’s London demonstrations that he backed their methods and was proud to call himself an 'uncooperative crusty’?
9. US President Donald Trump threatened which country that if it does anything ’off limits’ he would 'destroy and obliterate' its economy?
10. Whose report into Scotland Yard’s handling of the VIP paedophile scandal, published in full for the first time this week, identified 43 separate mistakes by the police?
11. Outgoing chief medical officer Sally Davies called for a ban on all eating and drinking, except for water and for medical conditions, to be banned where?
12. Why was 42-year-old Anne Sacoolas in the headlines?
13. What is the name of the super typhoon that caused England's Rugby World Cup game with France to be called off?
14. An eco-friendly council estate in which UK city was said to be 'the future of council housing' after winning the prestigious Stirling Prize by the Royal Institute Of British Architects?
15. What was the real first name of legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker who died this week age 80?
16. A gunman killed a man and woman, threw a grenade into a Jewish cemetery and left explosives near a synagogue in which German city?
17. The prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, was awarded what?
18. What was found dead in the River Thames near the Dartford Crossing after being hit by a ship?
19. Technology company Dyson scrapped a project to build what because they were not 'commercially viable’?
20. The five-year-old daughter of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been living with grandparents in Tehran and visiting her mother in prison, flew to the UK so she can start school. What is her name?
21. In the WAG row over leaked Instagram posts, Rebekah Vardy, when asked if she had argued with Coleen Rooney, said: 'That would be like arguing with a ___. You can tell it that you are right and it is wrong, but it's still going to shit in your hair.’ What is the missing word?
22. Who pledged to fund the tuition fees and living costs of two black students at Cambridge University each year?
23. Prince George was photographed punching the air as he watched Aston Villa beat which football team 5-1?
24. Elton John revealed his brush with death, his stormy relationship with his mother and his drug-use in his official autobiography which has what title?
25. Steps singer Ian ‘H' Watkins and Matt Evers are to become the first what?


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