Friday 13 May 2022

Have a crack at this week's newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz, all with 22, were Gavin Devine, Jayme Bryla and Tom Savage. Janet Boyle scored 21.5, Graham Dudman a personal best of 21, Marion Fountayne and Liz Gerard both 20, Robert Rea 19, Stuart Bagnall 18 and Jo Wadsworth 17. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with Joe and Lou Williams who scored 22 while on the top of Table Mountain in Wales. Marc Beyeler’s team scored 21.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 21, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20, Three Legs drinkers Jim and Stacey 18.5 and Our Peter, Joe and Sarah a PB of 17.5. 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.

A selection of today's front pages

1. The Queen’s speech, delivered by Prince Charles, included how many bills and draft bills?
2. The Queen missed the State Opening of Parliament for the first time since 1963. This time was due to 'mobility issues' but what was the reason 59 years ago?
3. In response to the Queen’s Speech Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs: 'However great our compassion and commitment, we cannot simply ___ our way out of problems.’ What is the missing word?
4. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reportedly demanded his cabinet comes up with a plan which could cut up to how many civil service jobs?
5. Vladimir Putin told Russian troops at his victory day parade that 'the defence of the ___, when its fate was being decided, has always been sacred.' What is the missing word?
6. The president and prime minister of which country said it must apply to join Nato 'without delay' and as 'a matter of urgency'?
7. Russian ambassador Sergei Andreev was doused with what as he tried to lay a wreath at a military cemetery in Poland?
8. The Metropolitan Police said it had issued 50 more fines this week for breaches of Covid lockdown regulations at Whitehall, bringing the total number of fixed-penalty notices to how many?
9. 
Sinn Féin became the first nationalist party to be the largest at the Northern Ireland Assembly after it won how many seats?
10. Journalist Shireen Abu Aqla, who was shot and killed while covering a raid by Israeli forces in the West Bank, was working for which news outlet?
11. Who was accused of being 'childish' by management at PwC for saying its staff were 'lazy gits' after the accountancy giant said workers could take Friday afternoons off?
12. Entertainer Peter Andre said there would be outrage if a man had made a similar slur about a woman's anatomy, after solicitors said that Rebekah Vardy had compared his manhood to what in the Wagatha Christie court case?
13. The Prime Minister of which country resigned after pro and anti-government protesters took to the streets over the economic crisis?
14. The UK Health Security Agency confirmed that a patient was being treated at a specialist unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust in London after being diagnosed with what rare viral infection?
15. Who lost its position as the world's most valuable company to Saudi Arabian oil and gas producer Aramco?
16. What was podcaster Deborah James referring to when she said she had been 'blown away’?
17. The Taliban in Afghanistan decreed that all women would have to do what or run the risk of their father or closest male relative being imprisoned or fired from government jobs?
18. An employment tribunal in Sheffield ruled that calling a man what was sexual harassment?
19. Electronic Arts confirmed it will stop making which popular video game series next year?
20. Actor Dennis Waterman, who died aged 74, was best known for playing George Carter, Terry McCann and Gerry Standing in which three television shows? Half a point for two, one point for all three.
21. A painting of Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol, called Shot Sage ___ Marilyn, was auctioned for $195m (£158.17m) in New York. What is the missing colour?
22. Manchester City confirmed an agreement to sign 21-year-old striker Erling Haaland for £51million from which club?
23. Which singer put money behind the bar of 60 pubs throughout the UK, urging fans to quench their thirst with a toast to mark his 60th birthday?
24. Ncuti Gatwa, 29, said he was 'deeply honoured, beyond excited and of course a little bit scared' to be taking which role?
25. What won the Virgin Media's Must-See Moment at the BAFTA awards?

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