Have a crack at this week's newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Sam Neve with 21, just ahead of Alan Geere on 19, Janet Boyle and Georgia Simcox on 18 and Toby Brown and Tom Savage on 17.  The top teams were Simon, Sue and Will Cole and The Penmans who both scored 23. Other good team scores were Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and The Roberts Family with 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 18 and Maura and Phil Parsons on 17. 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. Dame Vera Lynn, who died this week, was born in which year?

2. The Government made a U-turn and agreed to provide what for some of England’s poorest families after a campaign by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford?
3. What reason did Health Secretary Matt Hancock give to radio station LBC for mistakenly referring to Marcus Rashford as ‘Daniel’?
4. The number of UK workers on payrolls fell by around how many thousand between March and May, according to the Office for National Statistics?
5. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the 'biggest breakthrough yet' in the coronavirus fight was an inexpensive steroid that could save up to a third of critically-ill Covid-19 patients? What is the drug called?
6. EasyJet made its first flight in more than 11 weeks on Monday - the 7am EZY883 from Gatwick - to which city, the same destination as the first flight the airline flew when it launched in 1995? 
7. At Thursday’s Downing Street briefing Health Secretary Matt Hancock, talking about the tracing app, promised to put a cherry on whose cake?
8. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, when talking about taking the knee, said: 'Maybe it’s got a broader history but it seems to be taken from the ___ ___ ___. Feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination, rather than one of liberation and emancipation’. What are the missing three words?
9. The governing body of which Oxford University college said it wanted to remove the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes?
10. Premier League football returned with all players sporting what three words on the back of their shirts?
11. Why was Andrew Banks, 28, from Stansted jailed for two weeks by Westminster magistrates?
12. A white police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks, who was black, twice in the back faces 11 charges, including murder, in which US city?
13. Protective boarding around the statue of Sir Winston Churchill in London was removed, according to a spokesman for the Mayor of London, for a visit by whom?
14. Why was personal trainer and grandfather Patrick Hutchinson in the headlines?
15. Three former prime ministers - David Cameron, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair - criticised what move by the Government?
16. The pilot of a US air force fighter plane was found dead after crashing into the North Sea off which English county?
17. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and which other political party signed a historic coalition deal 18 weeks after the Irish general election, which could mean Micheál Martin becoming taoiseach (prime minister) by the end of June?
18. The White House is trying to prevent publication of a book, The Room Where It Happened written by an ex-National Security Adviser, saying it contains 'classified information’. What is the author’s name?
19. Who was the owner of Tactical which won the Windsor Castle Stakes at a deserted Royal Ascot on Wednesday?
20. What make of car, carrying Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was dented during a collision when a protester ran towards a convoy outside parliament?
21. The author of a 2011 autobiography, Taking a Punt on My Life (2011), in which he said 'gambling had been my downfall’, died age 66 this week. What was his name?
22. Actress Lysette Anthony quit Twitter after being branded 'actual trash' by Rachel Adedeji who left which TV soap following accusations of 'behind-the-scenes’ racism?
23. Who crashed a £250,000 Lamborghini Diablo while filming for the BBC show Top Gear in North Yorkshire?

24. Sir Ian Holm, who died age 88, played which character in Peter Jackson’s film Lord Of The Rings?

25. A former stray cat that was the central character of a best-selling book and had a 2016 film named after him died this week aged 14. What was his name?

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