Another busy newsweek - so try the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Stuart Bagnall with 22, just ahead of Robert Rea on 21. Gavin Devine and Marguerite Turner both scored 19 and Marion Fountayne and Jayme Bryla 18. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson with 22, ahead of Lou, Joe and Dan on 20. The Spain Golfers (Adam Batstone, David Kohn and Julian Diamond), Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Maura and Phil Parsons all scored 19. This week has been another busy one in the newsroom. 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. Announcing her resignation as Prime Minister outside 10 Downing Street, Liz Truss said: 'I recognise, though, given the situation I cannot deliver the ___ on which I was elected by the Conservative Party.’ What is the missing word?

2. Liz Truss will be the shortest serving Prime Minister in UK history after resigning how many days after winning the Tory leadership election?

3. Chairman of the 1922 Committee Sir Graham Brady said that the new Prime Minister would be announced by what date at the latest?

4. What celebrated Liz Truss’s departure as Prime Minister in a blonde wig, wearing googly-eye stickers, with disco lights, a Greggs snack with an audience of more than 20,000 people on livestream?

5. Which potential Tory leader candidate ruled himself out of the contest by tweeting this morning (Friday): 'As the Party starts the process of looking for a new leader, I would like to put on the record that I will not be letting my name go forward as a candidate'?

6. Before the Prime Minister’s resignation, the Leader of the house Penny Mordaunt said, in a response to a question from Labour MP Stella Creasy, that Liz Truss was not where?

7. Which one of these measures in the mini-budget did new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt not reverse? a) 1p cut in income tax b) VAT-free shopping for international tourists c) scrapping of the National Insurance rise d) cuts to dividend tax rate.

8. Which broadcaster was taken off-air for a week after he was overheard calling Northern Ireland minister Steve Baker a c**t following an interview?

9. Before her resignation as Home Secretary, Suella Braverman defended the Government's controversial Public Order Bill and blamed the 'Guardian-reading wokerati’ who eat what for disruption on Britain’s roads?

10. Who replaced Suella Braverman as Home Secretary?

11. Who used the f-word about Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Radio 4’s Today programme and was told: 'Oh, no, no, no, you mustn’t say that. No, you can’t say that! We’ll have to have you out of the studio now’?

12. Actor Robbie Coltrane, who died aged 72, played a character called Fitz in which television series?

13. Civil engineer Morgan Trowland, 39, and musician Marcus Decker, 33, appeared at Southend magistrates court charged with committing a public nuisance by doing what? 

14. What led to Charlotte Charles saying: 'I think that's the overwhelming feeling… just sheer relief that we could look up and say Harry, we've done it mate. We've done what we promised’?

15. King Charles was reported to be planning to sell 12 what, that belonged to the Queen, to 'scale back royal tradition’?

16. Which rugby team made 167 players and staff redundant after becoming the Premiership's second club to go into administration in 21 days?
17. A pro-democracy protester claimed to have been beaten up by men from which country’s consulate in Manchester?

18. Who was released on bail following a private hearing at Manchester Crown Court after having been remanded in custody by magistrates on Monday on charges including attempted rape?

19. Talk show host Graham Norton deleted his Twitter account after facing a backlash for saying that what phrase should be changed to ‘accountability’?

20. Who did the manager of New York restaurant Balthazar briefly ban for abusive behaviour describing him as a 'hugely gifted comedian' but a 'tiny cretin of a man’?

21. Aston Villa parted ways with manager Steven Gerrard after losing 3-0 to which team on Thursday?

22. What did Dame Judi Dench say blurred 'the lines between historical accuracy and crude sensationalism’?
23. North Macedonia, Montenegro and which other country said they would not take part in next year's Eurovision Song Contest because of the increased entry fee?

24. David Thorp, 42, was revealed as what and said he was ‘not spoiling anyone's enjoyment' but 'providing a service’?

25. Who won the Mercury Prize, for the best British or Irish album of the last 12 months?

Answers here