The top scorer in last week's newsquiz was Jo Wadsworth with an impressive 22. The best of the rest were Liz Gerard and Ed Mortimer who scored 20 (a PB for Ed), Cormac Connelly-Smith and Tom Savage on 19 and Alan Geere with 17. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 22 followed by the Roberts Family and the Penmans who scored 20. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. What better way to mark Brexit day by giving it a go? Let me know how you get on.
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1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was due hold a Cabinet meeting today (Friday) in which city?
2. What song did MEPs sing immediately after the withdrawal agreement was ratified in the European parliament?
3. The author of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman, said the Brexit 50p coin should be boycotted for what reason?
4. British nationals returned home from Wuhan to RAF Brize Norton and are to be quarantined at a centre where?
5. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that anyone who returns from Wuhan will be 'safely isolated for ___ days, with all necessary medical attention’. What is the missing number?
6. How many people died in the helicopter crash that killed American basketball star Kobe Bryant?
7. Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash, played his entire 20-year career for which basketball team?
8. The BBC announced it is to cut how many jobs from its news operation as part of an effort to save £80million?
9. Rail franchise Northern will be put into public ownership and the Government-controlled OLR will take over the running of its services.What does OLR stand for?
10. The presidents of which two countries laid wreaths together at the Death Wall to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz? Half a point for each.
11. Newsreader Alastair Stewart stepped down from ITV News following 'errors of judgement' on social media in which he quoted which Shakespearean play?
12. The Government told BBC’s Panorama that 38 people had been killed on what in the last five years?
13. Who flew into London to meet Boris Johnson and discuss the UK’s proposed relationship with Hauwei and warned that ‘the Chinese Communist Party presents the central threat of our times’?
14. Which famous 122-year-old British brand, that appeared in the James Bond film Spectre, went into administration threatening 100 jobs at its Castle Donington factory?
15. Former stock market trader Navinder Sarao, who was sentenced to a year of home detention for helping trigger a brief £770billion stock market crash, became known by what nickname?
16. Tate Britain defended its decision to advertise for a head of what on wages of almost £40,000 a year?
17. What was the name of the former deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, one of the key architects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, who died aged 83?
18. US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said his lawyers and the FBI had asked to interview the Duke of York as part of their Jeffrey Epstein's inquiry but 'to date, Prince Andrew has provided ___ ___’. What are the two missing words?
19. Companies that carried out what were accused by lawyers of killing people 'as sure as if they had taken careful aim with a gun and pulled the trigger’?
20. Chartered Management Institute head Ann Francke called for what to be ‘moderated’ in the workplace?
21. Which two football teams will play in the Carabao Cup final? Half a point for each.
22. Whose Cheshire home was attacked by a group wearing balaclavas and chanting that he was 'going to die’?
23. Nicholas Parsons, who died age 96, presented Radio 4’s longest running programme fom 1967 to 2019. What was it called?
24. Billie Eilish swept the board at the Grammys, winning how many awards, including best new artist and song of the year?
25. Who won the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards?
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