Friday 10 March 2023

Give the newsquiz a go ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Robert Rea with 23, just ahead of Marion Fountayne on 22.5, Toby Brown on 21.5, George Mann on 21, Marguerite Turner on 20.5, Jayme Bryla, Giles Borg and Nick Turner on 20 and Antony Tiernan on 17. The top team were the Three Legs’ drinkers Peter, Stacey, Nicky, Les, Anna and Dale who scored a maximum 25. Phil and Maura Parsons with help from Nige, Jos and Kate scored 24, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Tony Smith’s team 22, Jess Devonport and Nick Collins 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 18. Here is the 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. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and announced the UK will, for the first time, help fund what at a cost of £479million (€541million) over the next three years? 
2. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave details of the new Illegal Migration Bill at Downing Street, saying it was tough but it is necessary, while standing behind a lectern that had what three words on it?
3. In an email to Tory supporters, Home Secretary Suella Braverman blamed 'an activist __ of leftwing lawyers, civil servants and the Labour Party' for the Government’s failure to stop Channel crossings. What is the missing word?
4. The BBC said that Match of the Day host Gary Lineker would be 'spoken to' after he said the Government’s language on asylum seekers was 'not dissimilar' to what?
5. What did Labour leader Keir Starmer say would be 'absolutely outrageous’, Liberal Democrat Wendy Chamberlain describe as 'a mockery’ and inspired The Independent to launch a petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to block it?
6. Transport Secretary Mark Harper announced the high speed railway HS2 leg between Birmingham and which destination would be delayed by two years to cut costs?
7. In the leaked WhatsApp messages, known as the Lockdown Files, former Health Secretary Matt Hancock told aides during the pandemic that he wanted to ‘__ __ __ off everyone' to ensure compliance with Covid restrictions.`What are the three missing words?
8. What is the name of the storm that battered the UK bringing gales and snow which caused disruption including trapping motorists for hours overnight on the M62?
9. Disgraced former police officer Wayne Couzens was sentenced to 19 months, in addition to his whole-life sentence for murder, after pleading guilty to three charges of what?
10. What is the name of the 34-year-old man who appeared at Manchester Crown Court facing charges including the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel and the wounding of her mother?
11. A vigil was held for five people, three of whom died, involved in a car crash in which city at the weekend?
12. Grandfather Tony Johnson, 55, died after a fight between football fans outside a pub in which town?
13. A report by the charity Coram said the annual cost of a full-time nursery place for a child under two in Great Britain had risen by 5.9 per cent to what average price? 
a) £8,000 b) £10,000 c) £13,000 d) £15,000.
14. At least seven people were killed and several more injured after a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness hall in which European city?
15. Which Premier League footballer was being investigated by police after CCTV footage appeared to show him exposing himself in a bar’?
16. What title was granted by King Charles to Prince Edward on his 59th birthday?
17. Buckingham Palace confirmed that the line of succession list would be updated to reflect what change to the titles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's children?
18. Comedian and aspiring MP Eddie Izzard alternates between two names, saying: 'I'm Eddie. There's another name I'm going to add in as well, which is __, which I wanted to be since I was 10. I'm going to be __ Eddie Izzard.’ What is the missing name?
19. Manchester United suffered their biggest defeat in 92 years when they lost by what score to Liverpool?
20. What will be removed from Toblerone packages after some of the chocolate bar’s production moved outside Switzerland?
21. Margaret Anne Lake, a former columnist for The Sun who appeared on National Lottery Live from 1994 to 2000, died aged 80. How was she better known?
22. Israeli actor Chaim Topol, who died aged 87, was best known for the portrayal of Tevye in which musical?
23. Actor Michael Caine said claims, that which film was a 'key text' for 'white nationalists and supremacists’, were 'the biggest load of bullshit’?
24. Tickets for the Eurovision Song Contest live final in Liverpool sold out in how many minutes?
25. Which 25-year-old singer was revealed as the UK's entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest?

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