Friday 27 January 2023

Give the newsquiz a go ...

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Robert Rea and Janet Boyle on 22.5, ahead of Liz Gerard, Marion Fountayne and Marguerite Turner on 21, George Mann on 20.5, Toby Brown on 19.5, Damon Wake and Gavin Devine on 18 and Antony Tiernan on 16.5. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons on 23, ahead of Neil and Jo Benson on 22, Our Peter, Sarah and Joe with a personal best of 21.5, Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and Three Legs drinkers Stacey and Peter on 17.5. 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. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told newly-appointed Laurie Magnus to investigate claims that Tory Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to HMRC. What position does Magnus hold?
2. BBC chairman Richard Sharp is to be questioned by MPs after the disclosure that he helped former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to secure a loan of how much?
3. Germany agreed to send 14 of what type of tanks to Ukraine?
4. Labour accused the Government of 'a total dereliction of duty' for doing nothing to find 76 asylum-seeking children who are missing from Home Office-run hotels in which city?
5. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced that Isla Bryson, who was convicted of two rapes, would not be allowed to do what?
6. In a major speech at Bloomberg's European headquarters, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said: '___ about Britain was wrong in the past - and it is wrong today' and later added 'if we look further ahead, the case for ___ becomes weaker still.' What is the missing word?
7. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would legislate to work around a court ruling preventing what being built on the Grade II listed Victoria Tower Gardens beside the Houses of Parliament?
8. It was announced that the production of what in the UK has sunk to its lowest level for 66 years?
9. Geza Tarjanyi, 61, from Lancashire, was charged with assaulting who at Westminster underground station?
10. Which entertainer called in to a live Sky News phone-in offering to donate money for medical scans and tweeted: 'In all my years in this country I've never seen it so bad ... change the bloody government’?
11. A 72-year-old gunman killed 11 people at a Chinese New Year celebration at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in which city in Los Angeles county?
12. Romario Henry was found guilty at Chelmsford Crown Court of a knifepoint robbery, in which watches worth £700,000 were stolen, at whose home?
13. Whose brother said he had come to terms with the fact 'he has gone' and he had already said his 'goodbyes'?
14. Five firefighters were injured, one of them critically, in a blaze at the Jenners building in which city?
15. Lloyd Morrisett, who died aged 93, was the co-creator of which educational television show watched by millions of children around the world?
16. Who married Dr Anca Faur, his long-term partner, on his 93rd birthday said the couple were as 'excited as eloping teenagers’?
17. Which football club sacked their manager after a run of eight Premier League games without a win?
18. Beyoncé was criticised by some fans for a private concert held where for a reported fee of $24million (£19.4 million)
19. What colour is the comet, that was last visible during the Stone Age and won't be visible again for another 50,000 years, which will have its closest approach to earth on Wednesday?
20. Why was seven-time world champion Stephen Hendry fined by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association?
21. Four-year-old Teddy Hobbs, from Portishead in Somerset, became the UK's youngest member of what?
22. Which football team, from the birthplace of scientist Alexander Fleming, pulled off one of the greatest upsets in Scottish Cup history by beating top flight Aberdeen?
23. Which artist sold his share of the rights to his music to Hipgnosis Songs Capital for a reported $200million (£162million)?
24. Which British actor, aged 73, received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance in the film Living?
25. Who was announced as the replacement judge for David Walliams for the new series of Britain's Got Talent?

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