Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with a personal best of 22, just ahead of Liz Gerard on 21. Gavin Devine, Nick Turner and Janet Boyle all scored 20, Dominic Hurst 19, Robert Rea and Tom Savage 18, after a stewards’ inquiry into the name of a Kent village, controversially beating Giles Borg's 17 and Jayme Bryla on 16. The top teams were the Roberts Family and Simon, Sue and Will Cole both with a hugely impressive 24, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 22, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Nicola and Rob Lawrence on 21, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18, Team Swindle on 17 and Peter and Stacey on 16. 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 your score.

Today's front pages

1. What is the name of the new MP for Hartlepool - the first Conservative to have represented the town since 1964?
2. Which former Hartlepool MP said he felt 'fairly gutted' 'sad disappointment' and 'a mild fury' over the town’s by-election result?
3. In Scotland and Wales's elections which group of people, who can’t go to the polls in any other European places except the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Austria, were allowed to vote?
4. Police said the Labour candidate for the mayor of West Yorkshire, MP Tracy Brabin, did not break electoral law after the Conservatives reported her for a potential breach of the rules by doing what on the campaign trail?
5. France’s minister for maritime affairs threatened Jersey with what over a lack of access for the country's fishing fleet?
6. A flotilla of French fishing boats, that headed to Jersey to protest about fishing rights, were met by two Royal Navy ships. Name either of them.
7. The Events Research Programme held large-crowd experiments including a music festival, two club nights and a business conference with no masks or social distancing in which English city?
8. The UK's medicines safety regulator announced that most adults under what age will be given an alternative to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine due to a link with blood clots?
9. The body of Mayra Zulfiqar, 24, a law graduate living in London, was found murdered in a flat in which city?
10. Manchester United’s Premier League game with Liverpool at Old Trafford was postponed after a protest by fans who were angry with which family?
11. Seven people were hurt, two of them seriously, when a house exploded in which English town?
12. PC Benjamin Monk was on trial at Birmingham Crown Court charged with murdering which former Aston Villa footballer?
13. Which company announced it was recalling 125,000 of its products in the US after the death of a six-year-old child?
14. UEFA confirmed that the Champions League final, between Chelsea and Manchester City on May 29, will not be moved to the UK and will still take place in which city?
15. A metro overpass collapsed killing at least 24 people in which city?
16. The fourth wealthiest person in the world, Bill Gates, and his wife announced their divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage. What is her name?
17. Mark Selby said he would not chase records set by snooker's all-time greats after beating Shaun Murphy to win the World Championship. How many times has Selby now won it?
18. What is the title of the Duchess of Sussex's first children's book, a story about the special bond between father and son, due to be published on June 8?
19. The Government announced that all stores in England, including corner shops, must charge how much for single-use carrier bags from May 21?
20. Nick Kamen, who died aged 59, became famous for appearing in an advert for which company where he stripped to his boxer shorts in a launderette?

21. Why did a revamped ride at Disneyland in California, which reopened after being closed for a year due to the pandemic, receive a backlash on social media?

22. Which comic actor said the fire brigade 'didn’t snigger too much as they rescued me' after trapping himself on a ledge while cleaning his windows?
23. Line of Duty’s Martin Compston revealed that he, the other two main actors and creator Jed Mercurio had made a pact do what should viewing figures reach 12 million?
24. Singer Ed Sheeran was named as the new shirt sponsor for which football club?
25. Celebrities supported Captain Tom Moore's charity challenge, with David Beckham doing 100 keepy-uppies, Mary Berry baking 100 cakes and Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill bouncing on a pogo stick 100 times. But what did Dame Judi Dench do?

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