Friday 20 January 2023

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 22, ahead of Marion Fountayne on 19, Antony Tieran on 18.5, Robert Rea on 18 and Toby Brown and Gavin Devine both on 17.  The top team was Phil and Maura Parsons with 23, ahead of Lou, Joe and Sam Hart on 21, Neil and Jo Benson on 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. The TUC earmarked what date next month for coordinated national action including strikes by rail staff, train drivers, teachers, university lecturers and civil servants?
2. Who has reportedly agreed to pay several million pounds in tax after a dispute over his use of an offshore company to hold shares in the polling firm YouGov?
3. For the first time ever the Government triggered Section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 - vetoing what bill?
4. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised for an 'error of judgement' after he was filmed doing what?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came under fire for taking two short internal flights on Thursday. Which two Northern airports did he fly to? Half a point for each.
6. What is the name of the Metropolitan Police officer who appeared at Southwark Crown Court and admitted 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape?
7. Jacinda Ardern announced she was standing down as New Zealand's Prime Minister saying: 'I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer had enough __ __ __ to do it justice.’ What are the missing three words?
8. An inquest jury decided that blogger Beth Matthews, 26, who took her life by swallowing a poisonous substance, was failed by which hospital?
9. Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was filmed being carried by police at a protest over what in Germany?
10. The directors of which football club were instructed not to attend Saturday’s home game because of 'a real and credible threat to their safety and security’?
11. Four women and two children were injured in a drive-by shooting at what occasion at a church in Euston, London?
12. Seventy-two people, including a ballet dancer from Essex, were killed in which country's worst air disaster in three decades?
13. Actor Alec Baldwin is to be charged with ___ manslaughter over the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins who was killed on a film set when he fired a prop gun. What is the missing word?
14. Which retailer announced it has been put up for auction and was looking at potential administration because of rising costs and lack-lustre sales?
15. Joseph Watts, 35, from Hackney, was charged with assault after being filmed kicking who?
16. Food Standards Agency chair Professor Susan Jebb said that what could be as harmful as passive smoking?
17. Which actress, who was a Hollywood star in the 1950s and 60s and became known as 'the most beautiful woman in the world’, died aged 95?
18. The BBC apologised after Gary Lineker was interrupted by what while presenting the FA Cup game between Wolves and Liverpool?
19. Matteo Messina Denaro, who was arrested this week after being on the run since 1993, was the leader of which organisation?
20. A double decker bus carrying 70 construction workers, heading to work at which facility, overturned in Somerset?
21. Who announced he was leaving his job to take up an ambassadorial position saying: 'I have had the privilege of working with an exceptional team of dedicated individuals during the past 13 years with the agency, which has been incredibly exciting and rewarding’?

22. Tennis player Andy Murray beat Thanasi Kokkinakis in a match which lasted five hours 45 minutes, the longest contest in Murray's career, and finished at what time in Australia?
23. Musician Dave Crosby, who died aged 81, played with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and also had two UK top ten songs with Bob Dylan covers in 1965 with which band?
24. Jim Ratcliffe, chairman and co-founder of the INEOS chemicals group and considered Britain’s richest man, officially stated an interested in buying what?
25. Radio 2's Ken Bruce announced on air that he was leaving the BBC after 31 years of hosting its weekday mid-morning show to join which station?

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