Friday, 24 February 2023

Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

Last week’s newsquiz was obviously tougher than usual with lots of scores well below average. Top of the solo player leaderboard were Marion Fountayne and Robert Rea with 19.5, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 19, Gavin Devine and George Mann on 17 and Marguerite Turner on 16.5. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 19.5, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 18 and Neil and Jo Benson on 17. 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.

Today's front pages

1. To mark the first anniversary of the Ukrainian war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that on February 24 last year millions of Ukrainians made a choice between two flags. What were the colours of each flag? Half a point for each.
2. Vladimir Putin announced, in his state of the nation address, that he was suspending Russia's participation in the nuclear arms control treaty with America. What is the name of the treaty?
3. After visiting Ukraine, US President Joe Biden gave a speech in Warsaw, saying: 'President Putin ordered his tanks to roll into Ukraine, he thought we would __ __. He was wrong.’ What are the two missing words?
4. Four people were arrested after the Led By Donkeys protest group did what outside the Russian Embassy in London?
5. Who was criticised for saying, when asked in Parliament about food bank shortages, that people could boost their incomes by getting into work or to 'work some more hours, to get upskilled ... get a higher income’?
6. Labour leader Keir Starmer said he was taking the extraordinary step of offering his party’s support to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in any parliamentary vote on what?
7. Labour leader Keir Starmer outlined five missions which would form the pillars of the next Labour government. They were: Securing the 'highest sustained growth' in the G7, making Britain a 'clean energy superpower’, reforming the justice system to make the streets safer, raising education standards and what other?
8. Which union suspended its 48-hour strike in England planned for early March after the Government agreed to 'intensive talks' on pay?
9. With supermarkets restricting the sale of some fruit and vegetables, Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey suggested people should ‘cherish' seasonal foods such as what?
10. The family of which former US politician announced he had declined ongoing medical treatment and would enter palliative care at home?
11. Ofcom said it was ‘extremely concerned' by comments from the family of Nicola Bulley about media behaviour and had written to which two television companies 'to ask them to explain their actions’? Half a point for each.
12. Four men were arrested after Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell was shot in which Northern Ireland town?
13. Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and ex-Tory leader Lord Hague, in a joint report, called for everyone in the UK to have what?
14. Shamima Begum lost her challenge over a Home Office decision to deprive her of British citizenship despite Mr Justice Jay saying there was a ‘credible' case that she had been what?
15. Which SNP leadership candidate lost support from some of her party after saying she would have voted against gay marriage and that having a child outside of marriage was wrong?
16. Dani Czernuszka, 34, won her High Court fight for compensation after being paralysed for life while she was doing what?
17. Who commentated on more than 2,500 televised football matches, covered nine World Cups, 29 FA Cup finals and nine European Championships?
18. The Office for Students proposed that all staff at universities and colleges in England who failed to declare what should be liable to disciplinary action or dismissal?
19. Former child actor Kevin Spaine, who was jailed for life by Liverpool Crown Court, appeared in an advert for the Milk Marketing Board in 1989 where he said the famous line '__ __, who are they?’ What are the two missing words?
20. Dickie Davies, who died aged 94, presented which television programme from 1968 to 1985?
21. TV presenter Dan Walker said wearing a helmet saved his life when he was hit by a car while cycling in which city?
22. Staff working at the European Commission were ordered to remove what from their phones and corporate devices to 'protect data and increase cybersecurity’?
23. A spokesman for Rishi Sunak, commenting on the editing of Roald Dahl’s books, said: 'The Prime Minister agrees with the BFG that we shouldn’t __ around with words.’ What is the missing word?
24. What became the most celebrated foreign language film ever at the Baftas with seven wins?
25. Who was reported to be replacing Ken Bruce on his BBC Radio 2 show after the 71-year-old announced his decision to leave?

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