Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week’s newsquiz was clearly a tough one with scores well below usual. The top solo scorer was George Mann with 18, ahead of Marguerite Turner on 17, Jayme Bryla on 15 and Gavin Devine on 14. The top team was Three Legs drinkers Peter and Stacey with 19, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 17, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16 and Lou, Joe and Sam on 15. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. At the beginning of his pre-World Cup press conference speech which one of these did Fifa president Gianni Infantino not say? a) Today I feel Qatari b) Today I feel African c) Today I feel woman d) Today I feel gay e) Today I feel disabled.
2. What did Iran’s footballers decline to do before their World Cup game against England?
3. Germany's players covered their mouths ahead of their World Cup match against Japan and the German Football Association said it was taking Fifa to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as a protest over what?
4. Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo scored against Ghana making him the first player to have done what?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Ukraine for the first time since becoming Prime Minister and promised how many millions of pounds to bolster Ukrainian air defence?
6. After the Supreme Court ruled that Holyrood did not have the power to hold Indyref2 without Westminster’s consent, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told an Edinburgh rally: ‘Today our independence movement also becomes Scotland’s ___ movement.’ What is the missing word?
7. What guidance by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority was described by Labour's Jess Phillips as 'really irresponsible’, by the SNP's Stewart McDonald as ‘absurd' and by senior Tory backbencher David Davis as ‘bonkers’?
8. The Office for National Statistics reported that what had reached a record level of 504,000?
9. RMT boss Mick Lynch, announcing four 48-hour strikes in December and January, said 'I'm not the ___, I'm a trade union official and I'm determined to get a deal.’ What is the missing word?
10. Leaked documents suggest that an offshore trust linked to which Tory peer received £29million from PPE deals she had promoted through the Government’s VIP lane?
11. Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to strike for which two dates next month in their biggest walkout in the NHS's history? Half a point for each date.
12. Jamie Barrow, 31, appeared at which city’s magistrates’ court charged with the murder of a mother and two children who died after a house fire?
13. A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck a mountainous region of which island killing almost 300 people?
14. What was the name of the LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs where a gunman killed five people?
15. Six people were killed in what establishment in Virginia after a manager opened fire?
16. Dr Feelgood and Ian Dury and the Blockheads guitarist Wilko Johnson, who died aged 75, appeared as royal executioner Ser Ilyn Payne in which television series?
17. Who tweeted: 'The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei’?
18. Whose lawyers argued, at a Special Immigration Appeals Commission, that their client was trafficked for sexual exploitation when a minor and that removing her UK citizenship was unlawful?
19. Former paralympics athlete John McFall and astrophysicist Rosemary Coogan were selected to train as what?
20. A furnace - an industrial landmark since the 1970s that stood 365ft high and produced 3.6million tons of iron a year - was demolished, changing the skyline of which English town?
21. What is the name of the former rugby league player who raised £1.8million for motor neurone disease by completing seven ultra marathons in seven days?
22. Apple, David Beckham, Ineos founder Jim Ratcliffe and Spanish fashion billionaire Amancio Ortega were all reported to be interested in buying what?

23. Camilla, the Queen Consort, rehomed a selection of what, that had been left in tribute to the late Queen, to a London nursery?
24. US President Joe Biden pardoned two Thanksgiving turkeys with what names at the White House? Half a point for each.
25. Who was the first campmate to be voted off this year’s I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here?

Answers here