Friday, 10 February 2023

Give the newsquiz a go

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 20.5, narrowly ahead of George Mann and Liz Gerard on 20. Tony Smith, Robert Rea, Toby Brown and Marion Fountayne all scored 19, Gavin Devine 18, Enid Shelmerdine 17 and Marguerite Turner 16. Maura and Phil Parsons and the Three Legs drinkers Stacey, Peter, Les and Nicky scored 20, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17. 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.

A selection of today's front pages

1. The earthquake that hit southeast Turkey and northern Syria, killing more than 20,000 people, was of what magnitude?
2. Which former Chelsea and Newcastle footballer was reported missing in the Turkish earthquake?
3. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, on a surprise visit to the UK, presented Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle with what which had ‘we have freedom, give us wings to protect it’ written on it?
4. At a joint press conference with the Ukrainian president, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said 'nothing is __ __ __' when asked about sending jets to Ukraine. What are the missing three words?
5. Who replaced Nadhim Zahawi as Conservative Party chairman in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's first cabinet reshuffle?
6. In an interview with the Spectator, days before being appointed deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson said he would support the return of what?
7. In a 4,000-word essay published by which newspaper, former Prime Minister Liz Truss argued she was brought down by a left-wing economic establishment?
8. Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, said about 100,000 civil servants would walk out on March 15 to coincide with what that is due to take place that day?
9. Strike action by firefighters was put on hold while union members consider an increased pay offer which included pay rise of what per cent backdated to July last year and another of five per cent from next July?
10. Transport Secretary Mark Harper said that LNER, which operates trains along the East Coast mainline, would extend its trial of scrapping what?
11. Jared O’Mara, former Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam, was jailed for four years for making fraudulent expenses claims to fund what?
12. The head of which private school was found dead along with her husband and seven-year-old daughter?
13. Serial rapist and former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick was sentenced to how many life terms by a judge at Southwark Crown Court?
14. Peter Faulding, chief executive of Specialist Group International, said his team was pulling out of what?
15. A Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by a US jet over which state’s coast on Saturday?
16. Manchester City were charged by the Premier League with breaches of financial rules, including not giving full details of which former manager's remuneration?
17. Which clothes retailer, formerly known as Mackays, announced it was to close its 170 stores with the loss of almost 2,000 jobs?
18. Jaswant Singh Chail, who climbed the wall at Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and told a protection officer 'I am here to kill the Queen’ was the first person in the UK since 1981 to be convicted of what offence?
19. Who was released from The Verne prison in Dorset, after serving eight years, half his sentence of 16 years, for sexually abusing three schoolgirls?
20. Why was 40-year-old Sasha Walpole in the headlines?
21. Royal Mail unveiled stamps bearing King Charles with one difference from the style of those that featured the Queen. What is it?
22. Fashion and fragrance company Puig said that which man, who died aged 88, was 'among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th Century’?
23. Songwriter Burt Bacaharach, who died aged 94, wrote 39 chart hits for which artist?
24. Which sit-com is to be revived after more than 40 years and will feature the star of the original show and his daughter?
25. Which band from the Isle of Wight, won Best Alternative Music Performance and Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards?

Answers here

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