Friday 6 May 2022

It's time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle and Rob Lawrence with 21, ahead of Marion Fountayne and Tony Smith on 20, Marguerite Turner on 19, Robert Rea, Stuart Bagnall and Toby Brown on 18 and Jayme Bryla on 16. The top team was the Three Legs Drinkers with 21. Others on the leaderboard were Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 17, Maura and Phil Parsons 16 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 15. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages

1. London Mayor Sadiq Khan declared 'history has been made tonight’ after Labour took control of which council, once regarded as Margaret Thatcher’s favourite, for the first time in 44 years?
2. Who accompanied Prime Minister Boris Johnson when he walked to Methodist Central Hall in Westminster to cast his vote in the local elections?
3. In an interview with TV presenter Susannah Reid, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was told that 77-year-old widow Elsie did what 'all day to avoid using energy at home’?
4. The Bank of England warned that the UK faces a 'sharp economic slowdown’ as it raised interest rates to one per cent, the highest since which year?
5. Environment Secretary George Eustice was criticised for being ‘out of touch’ after he said people should do what to 'contain and manage their household budget’?
6. Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first international leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion and said: 'This is Ukraine's ___ ___ that will be remembered and recounted for generations to come.’ What are the missing two words?
7. According to the Israeli Prime Minister, Russia's President Vladimir Putin apologised after his foreign minister had claimed that who had 'Jewish blood’?
8. Ukrainian rock band Antytila teamed up with who to release a song which the group partly filmed and recorded while serving on the frontline in the war against Russia?
9. According to a friend, Conservative MP Neil Parish was searching for what model of combine harvester when he watched pornography in Parliament?
10. Which police force said it would investigate 'significant new information' about a gathering, dubbed Beergate, attended by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in April 2021?
11. Which company recorded its highest quarterly earnings - £5 billion ($6.2billion) - in more than a decade, prompting renewed calls for a windfall tax?
12. Which convenience store chain with 1,400 stores collapsed into administration, putting 16,000 jobs at risk?
13. There were protests in the US after a document suggested the Supreme Court was about to reverse a landmark 1973 ruling which gave all Americans the legal right to abortion. The ruling is known as who versus who? Half a point for each name?
14. The Army began an investigation after an intruder dressed as what spent the night eating and drinking with senior officers at a barracks close to Windsor Castle?
15. The London home of which Tory peer was raided as part of a police fraud investigation into multi-million pound PPE deals?
16. Name the two British football teams who reached the final of the Champions League and Europa League this week. Half a point for each.
17. Former Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was jailed for how long after being found guilty of four charges under the Insolvency Act at Southwark Crown Court?
18. The cast of which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical learned they were being sacked, some on social media, after a matinee performance in the West End?
19. What was sold for a record breaking £7,142,500 at Sotheby’s in London this week?
20. Isaiah Lee, 23, was charged with four counts of misdemeanour after an on-stage attack on which US comedian at the Hollywood Bowl?
21. The Football Association denied it was to drop what song as the England football team's official World Cup song because it could be seen as arrogant by other countries?
22. Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled Stephen Hendry's modern-era record of how many snooker world titles?
23. According to bookmakers, Carol Vorderman, Romesh Ranganathan, Colin Murray, Paul O’Grady, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Jon Richardson were the front-runners for which job?
24. Who was voted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, despite previously asking to 'respectfully bow out' of contention for the honour having not 'earned the right’?
25. Eddie Scott beat Pookie and Radha to be crowned what?

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