Friday 20 May 2022

The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Chay Quinn with an impressive 23.5. Others on the leaderboard were Janet Boyle 21.5, Tom Savage 21, Marguerite Turner, Toby Brown, Rob Lawrence and Robert Rea all on 20, Jayme Bryla 18, Gavin Devine 17.5, Peter Cockerill and Graham Dudman on 16. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson on 22, ahead of Simon, Sue and Will Cole 21, Maura and Phil Parsons 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19, The Scotson family and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 15. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. Scotland Yard declared its Partygate investigation to be over and said it had issued how many fines in total - including one to Prime Minister Boris Johnson?
2. The Office for National Statistics estimated inflation is now at what per cent, its highest level since March 1982?
3. At a House Treasury Committee, Andrew Bailey, governor of the Bank of England, used what word to describe food prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
4. Moscow said that more than 900 Ukrainian fighters had been taken from where to a former prison colony in a Russian-controlled part of Donetsk?
5. The leader of which country said it was 'determined' to oppose Finland and Sweden joining NATO and branded Sweden an 'absolute terrorist nest’?
6. Which company announced it was to permanently leave Russia after more than 30 years and had negotiated the sale of its 850 outlets because of the 'humanitarian crisis' and the 'unpredictable operating environment' caused by the Ukraine war?
7. Why was an unnamed Conservative MP in his 50s asked by the party’s chief whip not to attend Parliament?
8. How many pages of documentation, partly written in Latin, did M&S boss Archie Norman say his company needed in order to deliver goods to the Republic of Ireland?
9. An 18-year-old gunman killed ten people at a supermarket in which city in New York state?
10. The Queen made her first public appearance, outside of the Windsor area since her husband’s memorial service seven weeks ago, when she made a surprise visit to which London Station to see the completed Elizabeth line?
11. Eight cities were created for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, with at least one in every UK nation. They are Milton Keynes, Colchester and Doncaster in England, Dunfermline in Scotland, Bangor in Northern Ireland and Wrexham in Wales. Name the other two. Half a point for each.
12. How will Stéphanie Frappart, Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita make history later his year?
13. The first public congressional hearing to be held in the US for more than 50 years into what phenomenon heard that a number of events had defied all attempts at explanation?
14. What is the name of the actor/writer, who died aged 71, who wrote for television drama serials including Band of Gold, Fat Friends and Strictly Confidential?
15. The Sunday Times Rich List revealed that there are now 177 what living in the UK - a record number?
16. The High Court ruled that the BBC could not name a man, who it claims exploited which position, saying he was 
'above the law', to threaten to kill a woman and attack her with a machete?
17. Jake Daniels, 17, who became the UK’s first active professional football player to come out publicly as gay since 1990, plays for which team?
18. Coleen Rooney missed the final day of her legal battle with Rebekah Vardy at London's High Court as she and husband Wayne jetted off on holiday. Where did they go?
19. Hundreds of thousands of people with insomnia are to be offered what instead of sleeping pills under new guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence?
20. Vangelis, who died aged 79, won an Oscar for which 1981 soundtrack which also reached No 1 in the US charts and No 12 in the UK?
21. How many penalties were missed or saved in the FA Cup final shoot-out between Liverpool and Chelsea?
22. Singer Sam Ryder came second in Eurovision - the UK's best result in decades – with which song?
23. Joe and Jess Thwaite from Gloucester became the UK’s biggest ever lottery winners when they won how much (in pounds) on the Euromillions?
24. A village pub in Cornwall received an apology from the publishers of which magazine for asking it to change its name as it 'might cause problems'?
25. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined Tom Cruise on the red carpet in Leicester Square at the UK premiere of the Top Gun sequel? What is it called?

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