Friday 15 November 2019

The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

There were some cracking scores in last week’s newsquiz. Tom Savage scored a highly impressive 22, narrowly ahead of Damon Wake on 21. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with a personal best of 22.5. The Roberts Family scored 21.5 and Miles Dilworth and Ben Wilkinson 21. Here’s this week’s quiz. 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. Nigel Farage declared his Brexit party would not field candidates in the General Election in how many Conservative-held seats?
2. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage accused 10 Downing Street of sabotaging his candidates saying: 'There are lots of peerages being offered. This is full-on ____ style corruption. Today has been an industrial scale attempt to stop free and open politics happening in our country.’ What is the missing word?
3. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Labour Party would introduce a working week of how many hours, which would apply to all employees and be implemented over a decade?
4. Who said it was 'completely bizarre' that he was trying to overturn his own majority in Marlow, Buckinghamshire?

5. Why are the Liberal Democrats considering court action against the BBC and ITV?
6. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said that 'the right thing to do’ would have been to arrest who?
7. Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has announced that he will publish his memoirs in February. What will the book be called?
8. The Health Secretary who oversaw a huge hospital building programme, abolished the internal NHS market and introduced the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) died this week. What was his name?
9. The BBC apologised after using Remembrance Sunday footage of Boris Johnson paying his respects at the Cenotaph from which year?
10. NHS figures revealed October was the worst ever month for A&E waiting times with just 
83.6 per cent of patients seen within the target time of how many hours?
11. How was the former High Sheriff of Derbyshire, 69-year-old Annie Hall, killed?
12. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said he had seen a 'double sunrise' after stepping off a non-stop 19-hour 19-minute flight between which two cities. Half point for each. 

13. Lord Bramall, the former head of the British armed forces who served in nearly all major UK military campaigns between the second world war and 1985, died this week. How old was he?
14. What did Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte describe as 'a blow to the heart of our country’?
15. Who said: 'I am leaving my beloved Bluebirds after over three years of which have been some of the best days in my long football career’?
16. Roula Khalaf was announced as the first female editor of which newspaper?
17. Four people died and at least 300 homes were destroyed or damaged by fires in which Australian state?
18. China's 11:11 Day on November 11 has become bigger for online sales than Black Friday and Cyber Monday. What is it better known as?
19. Workers at which company went on strike demanding wages of £15 an hour, an end to youth rates, the choice of guaranteed hours of up to 40 hours a week and notice of shifts four weeks in advance?
20. Raheem Sterling was dropped from the England versus Montenegro Euro 2020 qualifier after a bust up with which team member?
21. British inventor Richard Browning reached 85mph, breaking his own record of 32 mph for the fastest flight in a jet suit, and said flying beside which 'iconic landmark' made the event really special’?
22. John Lewis launched its 2019 Christmas advert with a fire-breathing dragon with what name?
23. As part of this year's Children In Need, which celebrity raised more than £1million in a 24-hour karaoke challenge?
24. Irish actor Niall Tóibín, who died aged 89, was best known for playing Father MacAnally in which hit BBC series which ran from 1996 until 2001?
25. Who tweeted to say her performance at the American music awards was in doubt as a music management company were preventing her from singing her own songs?


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