The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Alex Richman with 20, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle on 19 and Liz Gerard on 18. The top teams were Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 19 and the Roberts Family on 18. Here is 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.

Some of today's front pages

1. Boris Johnson was accused of deceit after the Conservative manifesto promise to deliver how many more nurses for the NHS?

2. The Tory manifesto promised to raise the threshold at which people start making National Insurance contributions to £9,500 in April next year with an 'ultimate ambition' to raise it to how much?

3. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn produced 451 pages of ‘uncensored’ Government documents which, he said, showed that what would be ‘on the table’ in talks with the Trump administration?

4. Which Conservative grandee made an appeal to people to choose 'the national interest’ and ignore traditional party loyalties to help elect Liberal Democrats through tactical voting?

5. The Chief Rabbi accused Jeremy Corbyn of allowing a '____ sanctioned from the top' to take root in Labour, saying Jews are anxious about the prospect of the party forming the next government? What is the missing word?

6. The Conservative Party complained to Ofcom, claiming Channel 4 had breached the broadcasting code with 'a provocative partisan stunt' when it replaced Boris Johnson with what during its climate change debate?

7. Who announced he was running for US president with a campaign video claiming he was a 'middle-class kid who made good’?

8. Which firm announced it was looking to cut up to 4,500 UK jobs, including offices at Houghton le Spring, Hull and Worcester, as part of a restructuring plan?

9. Why will BBC’s Panorama programme be double its normal length on Monday?

10. Which film was banned by Vue cinemas after a mass brawl in Birmingham and 25 other 'significant incidents’?

11. Which company, that prints the UK's banknotes and recently lost the passport printing contract, said it was at risk of collapse as it suspended its dividend and reported a half-year loss?

12. Uber was stripped of its London licence after Transport for London found that more than 14,000 trips were taken with drivers who had what?
13. Thirteen French soldiers, fighting Islamic militants, were killed when two helicopters collided in which country?

14. Who died this week, seven years after saying: 'I don't want to cast a gloom, an air of doom, over the programme but I'm a man who is approaching his terminus’?

15. CCTV footage was released by police of raiders using an axe to smash a display case and snatching priceless 18th-century jewellery in the Royal Palace in which city?

16. Why were Steve and Lenka Thomson from Selsey in West Sussex in the headlines?

17. Which football team sacked their manager after their worst run of form since 1992?

18. David Duckenfield, 75, the police officer in charge of Hillsborough when 96 people died in 1989, was cleared of what offence after a six-week trial at Preston Crown Court?

19. Celebrity chef Gary Rhodes died at the age of 59 in which city?

20. New Zealand Cricket is investigating after which English cricketer tweeted that he had been the target of a racial slur from a spectator?

21. ITV apologised after presenter Eamonn Holmes used what word to describe the Duchess of Sussex?

22. Football pundit Ian Wright is facing Ofcom complaints over the bullying of which fellow camp-mate on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here?

23. Who was reported to have thanked Jeffery Epstein and Prince Andrew for 'keeping her out of the headlines over the past few days'?

24. What was the name of the koala who was rescued from a bushfire by a grandmother but was put down after he failed to recover from his burns? 

25. What is 35-year-old Melody Thornton set to miss out on?

Answers here