I have been working with seven Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday trainees this week. They had sessions with managing editor Alex Bannister, news-editor Sam Marsden, chief reporter Sam Greenhill, Femail editor Fiona Hardcastle, showbiz reporter Eleanor Sharples and MailOnline travel editor Ted Thornhill. The trainees analysed the news, wrote stories and headlines and learnt about the papers’ style. On the second day the newsroom asked if anyone would do a shift and Issy Stanley worked through to 1am collecting two bylines on the way. The winners of the best intro of the week were Issy and Daisy Graham-Brown. As usual we finished with the newsquiz. This week’s winner with 17 was Daisy.
The top solo scorers in last week’s quiz were Robert Rea and Marguerite Turner both with 20, just ahead of MailOnline trainee Liv Jones and Sian Brewis on 19, Tom Savage, Adam Batstone, Stuart Bagnall, Liz Gerard and Toby Brown all scored 18 and Jon Lockett and Maddy Ross scored 17. The top team was Phil and Maura Parsons with 19, ahead of The Three Legs drinkers on 18 and Lucy Thorpe’s Spanish Senoritas on 17.5. Here is the week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Daisy's score.
2. Former chancellor Rishi Sunak topped the first round ballot for the Tory leadership with 88 votes but which two candidates were eliminated? Half a point for each.
3. Former chancellor Rishi Sunak won the second round of voting with how many votes?
4. Attorney General Suella Braverman was knocked out in the second round of voting and said she would back which candidate?
5. Boris Johnson said at Prime Minister’s Questions: 'I am proud of the fantastic teamwork that has been involved in all of those projects both nationally and internationally, and I am also proud of the leadership that I have given. I will be leaving with my ___ ___ ___.’ What are the three missing words?
6. Education minister Andrea Jenkyns explained giving 'a baying mob' the finger outside Downing Street by saying she was 'at the end of her tether' after receiving how many death threats in the last four years?
7. Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle ordered the removal of MPs Neale Hanvey and Kenny MacAskill, who were then suspended from the Commons for five days, for disrupting the start of Prime Minister’s Questions. Which party do they belong to?
8. What has been done to Hammersmith Bridge, a Grade II-listed structure, to protect it from next week's heatwave?
9. Why was Hussein Abdi Kahin in the headlines?
10. Members of which union voted to strike over pay at eight train companies on Saturday July 30, raising the chances of more travel chaos?
12. Emirates said it would refuse to cut flights to comply with Heathrow’s passenger cap, saying the airport faced ‘an ___ situation due to its incompetence and non-action’. What is the missing word?
13. What is the name of the England player who scored a hat-trick in the 8-0 victory over Norway in the Women’s Euros 2022?
14. Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned as president of which country after fleeing to Singapore?
15. The BBC published the salaries of its highest-paid stars as part of its annual report. Who was the highest paid female on the list?
16. An independent inquiry found that sexual abuse of young girls in which town went unchecked for more than 30 years?
17. England and Manchester United's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney was appointed head coach at a football team in which city?
18. A self-portrait was discovered on the back of the canvas of a Vincent Van Gogh painting called what?
19. More than 500 women filed a joint lawsuit in America against which company alleging they were sexually assaulted, kidnapped or otherwise attacked?
20. Novak Djokovic equalled Pete Sampras's tally of how many men’s singles titles at Wimbledon?
21. How old was Donald Trump’s first wife Ivana who died in New York this week?
22. Spectacular photos of the early cosmos were published this week after Nasa released the first images from its new space telescope which is named after who?.
23. The Animal and Plant Health Agency said that its scheme testing an oral contraceptive pill on which animals in the UK was producing hopeful results?
24. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, guest-edited which publication to mark its 125th anniversary and her 75th birthday?
25. Who said, on his return as the temporary Countdown host, that 'letters and numbers are the only stars of the show'?
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