Friday 25 June 2021

Time to tackle the newsquiz


Today's Sun exclusive (questions 1 & 2)

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Findus with an impressive 22 ahead of Janet Boyle on 20, Gavin Devine 18 and Robert Rea and Jayme Bryla on 17. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson with a personal best of 21, just ahead of The Three Legs team of Peter, Stacey, Bryan and Heather with 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe who both scored 17. 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. I have been working with American trainees this week so if you really fancy a challenge you will find their quiz … with a US focus here.

Today's front pages

1. Health Secretary Matt Hancock was accused of having an affair with senior aide Gina Coladangelo who is a director of the lobbyists Luther Pendragon and
communications director of which fashion firm?
2. Health secretary Matt Hancock reacted to the photograph of him kissing his aide by saying he had let people down and was very sorry for what?
3. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced 16 locations were being added to the UK's travel green list from next Wednesday. Which one of these was NOT on the list a) Madeira b) Menorca c) Sardinia d) Malta?
4. Who switched his political allegiance from Tory to Labour, saying he regarded today’s Conservative party as 'reactionary, populist, nationalistic and sometimes even xenophobic’?
5. Moscow's defence ministry said warning shots had been fired and bombs in the path of which British warship which was sailing near Crimea?
6. In a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who did The Queen refer to as a 'poor man’?
7. An undercover investigation by ITV News showed Amazon destroying items of unsold stock including TVs and laptops, with an ex-employee alleging staff had a target ‘to generally destroy ___ items a week’. What is the missing number?
8. St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith said it was to axe what role because it was too ‘binary’?
9. Benjamin Monk became the first British police officer in 35 years to be convicted of what?
10. What is the name of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy paper which has announced its closure, after its offices were raided 
and its editor and five other executives were arrested, over allegations of breaking national security laws?
11. Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, 75, was found dead in a prison in which city after a court ruled he was to be extradited to the US for tax evasion?
12. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were reported to have rejected the proposal that their son Archie would be called the Earl of where because they feared he might be bullied?
13. A book by Kevin Cook said that the crew of a space shuttle, which crashed in 1986, would probably have survived the initial explosion. What was the space shuttle called?
14. Ebrahim Raisi, 60, won which country's presidential election and is due to take office in August?
15. England and Wales went through to the last 16 of Euro 2020 … but who do they play in their next games? Half a point for each.
16. What is the name of Scotland's midfielder who tested positive for Covid-19 and had to sit out the Euro 2020 match with Croatia?
17. President Joe Biden and his wife Jill announced the death of their ‘beloved' dog who had been with them for 13 years. What was it called?
18. Mobile operator EE announced it will reintroduce roaming charges from next month - so that new UK customers will have to pay how much extra a day to use their mobiles in Europe from January?
19. What is the name of the song, composed by children and their music teacher at a primary school in Bradford, which provoked ridicule and drew comparisons between Britain and Nazi Germany?
20. Singer Britney Spears called on a court in Los Angeles to end her abusive conservatorship and said those responsible for enforcing it, including her father, should be in jail? What is her father’s name?
21. The BBC received 6,417 complaints about the broadcast of what?
22. Who apologised for a video showing her mouthing an anti-Asian racist slur saying 'I am appalled and embarrassed and want to barf that I ever mouthed along to that word’?
23. New Zealand's Laurel Hubbard became the first ever transgender athlete picked to compete at an Olympics, when she was selected for which sport?
24. Winston Marshall quit which band after he was pilloried by a 'viral mob' for praising a book by US journalist Andy Ngo?
25. Who is to replace Bruno Tonioli as a judge on the next series of Strictly Come Dancing?

Answers here

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