It's newsquiz time

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Rob Lawrence with an impressive 24 - a personal best.  Marguerite Turner scored 22 and Marion Fountayne on 21. Janet Boyle, Stuart Bagnall, George Mann and Nick Turner all scored 20, Robert Rea and Jo Wadsworth scored 19, Toby Brown, Phil Lambell, Gavin Devine and Tony Smith all got 18 and Jayme Bryla 16. The top team was The Thee Legs drinkers of Peter, Stacey, Kevin, Mandy, Les and Ian with 21, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons and Neil and Jo Benson on 20. Jess Devonport and Nicholas Collins scored 19 and Adam Batstone, Lucy Thorpe, Ben and Bella 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. 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. A senior civil servant told the Guardian that Sir Gavin Williamson, during his time in Cabinet, told staff to 'slit your throat’ and, on another occasion, to do what?
2. Sir Gavin Williamson, who resigned from the Government, had previously been sacked by both Boris Johnson and Theresa May from which Cabinet positions? Half a point for each.
3. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Rishi Sunak over his decision to promote Sir Gavin Williamson, describing him as a cartoon bully with a pet what?
4. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s entry into the I’m a Celebrity camp prompted who to say that, if his mother had died of Covid: 'I wouldn't be here now. I would have gone if he had walked in’?
5. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock sang a song by which artist to his I’m A Celebrity campmate Seann Walsh?
6. Nurses voted for their first ever national strike, with Health Secretary Steve Barclay saying demands for a pay rise of what per cent were 'out of step' with the economic circumstances?
7. Who said he had warned former Prime Minister Liz Truss about going at a 'breakneck speed' with economic measures telling her ‘you will have two months if you carry on like this’?
8. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an additional bank holiday on Monday, May 8, next year to mark what event?
9. UN Secretary General António Guterres opened the COP27 climate summit by saying that the world was on 'the ___ ___ ___ ___ with our foot still on the accelerator’. What are the missing four words?
10. Chief Constable Chris Noble told the National Police Chiefs’ Council conference that 'we're not going to arrest our way out of' what?
11. Russia's defence ministry said it had completed the withdrawal of troops from which Ukrainian city after saying it was not possible to continue supplies?
12. Which 34-year-old singer, a child prodigy who had two UK top ten hits when he was ten, was found dead at his Californian home?
13. Why was 23-year-old Patrick Thelwell arrested in York?
14. Former England rugby player Levi Davis, 24, who was reported missing, was last seen on CCTV leaving The Old Irish Pub in which city?
15. A Tanzanian passenger plane crashed into which lake, as it attempted to land, killing at least 19 people? 
16. The Red Roses will meet the Black Ferns at which event at Eden Park, Auckland, tomorrow (Saturday)?
17. Actor Leslie Phillips, who died aged 98, was well-known for appearing in the Carry On film series and as the voice of what in the Harry Potter movies?
18. What was the name of the actor, who played Arthur Fowler in the BBC soap EastEnders for 11 years, who died age 92?
19. Qatar World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman was accused of 'harmful and unacceptable' comments after saying that what was 'damage in the mind’?
20. The court sheriff in Edinburgh ruled that a man claiming to be Arthur Knight, who was arrested on a Covid ward, was actually Nicholas Rossi who was wanted in the US for what crime?

21. Which one of these football clubs does not have three or more players in Gareth Southgate’s England World Cup squad? a) Arsenal b) Liverpool c) Manchester United d) Newcastle United
22. England cricketers beat India in the Men's T20 World Cup by scoring 170 without loss to set up a final against which team on Sunday?
23. Who apologised for ‘disrespectful behaviour’ including referring to a woman as a 'slightly boring girl you meet in the pub who thinks you want to have sex with her’?
24. Wreaths of purple poppies were among those laid at memorials as part of the Armistice Day services. What does the purple poppy commemorate?
25. Who made a TV advert, showing him delivering a rolled up carpet, to announce his first tour in 12 years?

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