The newsquiz - 25 questions about the week

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Hannah Tomes and Janet Boyle who both scored 18. Toby Brown on 16.5 came next. The top team was the Roberts Family with 22. Phil and Maura Parsons, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Peter and Stacey all clocked up a score of 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As always there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.  

A selection of today's front pages

1. Labour suspended former leader Jeremy Corbyn after a damning report on anti-Semitism from the EHRC. What does EHRC stand for?

2. Labour said Jeremy Corbyn was suspended because of his reaction to the EHRC report, saying 'the scale of the problem was also dramatically ___ for political reasons'. What is the missing word?

3. As of today (Friday), which one of these cities is not in the Government’s Tier-3 Covid alert level: Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham?

4. Which two European countries announced lockdowns for November, closing bars, gyms, cinemas and theatres? Half a point for each.

5. Boots announced plans for coronavirus swab tests which will cost £120 and which the company claimed would deliver results in how many minutes?

6. Which chain announced it will cut another 1,300 jobs, two months after it revealed plans to axe 1,100 roles and close 73 of its restaurants, because of coronavirus restrictions?

7. Friends claimed that the Kurdish-Iranian family, who drowned in the English Channel, paid smugglers how much to get them to the UK? Answer can be given in pounds or euros.

8. President Emmanuel Macron said France would not give in to terror after a knifeman killed two women and a man in which city?

9. What was the name of the tanker which was boarded by the Special Boat Service after a suspected hijacking involving stowaways off the Isle of Wight?

10. Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage appeared at an election campaign rally in Arizona and told the crowd that President Donald Trump 'is the single most resilient and ___ person I have ever met in my life.' What is the missing word?

11. What was the name of the 27-year-old who was shot dead by police in Philadelphia, causing hundreds to take to the streets in protest?

12. Why was Chris Noden refused entry to Tesco in Newport, South Wales?

13. Two British teenagers were killed and another injured in a parasailing accident on which island?

14. BBC presenter Victoria Derbyshire apologised for what, saying 'it was hypothetical - however I was totally wrong to say it and I'm sorry'?

15. Police arrested a 38-year-old man after the bodies of a mother and son were found in separate homes in which English city?
16. Frank Bough, who died aged 87, presented which sports programme for 15 years from 1967?

17. Police started an investigation into a crash in north London between a Deliveroo cyclist and which politician?

18. At the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday, Lewis Hamilton broke Michael Schumacher's 14-year record of how many Formula One race victories?
19. Data collected by a modified Boeing 747 carrying a telescope helped NASA scientists to confirm the existence of what?

20. Who announced that she had been diagnosed with cancer and had surgery to remove her bladder, uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, part of her colon, urethra and part of her vagina?

21. Who responded to the death of comedian Bobby Ball, at the age of 76, with a statement saying: 'Rock on, my good friend, I can’t believe this, I’m devastated'?

22. Joan Hocquard, Britain’s oldest person, died in a care home in Dorset. How old was she?

23. Broadcaster Piers Morgan called her a 'tone-deaf imbecile', musician Peter Frampton said she was 'so insensitive' and actor Tom Payne called her tweets 'unbelievably awful'. Who were they talking about?

24. John Bream, 34, was taken to hospital after breaking what world record?

25. Kazakhstan's tourism board, in its new advertising campaign, adopted which two-word catchphrase used by the film character Borat?

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