The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was George Mann with 22, ahead of Phil Lambell and Toby Brown on 21, Robert Rea and Liz Gerard on 19, Gavin Devine 18.5 and Marguerite Turner 17.
The top team were the Three Legs drinkers Thom, Stacey, Peter, Nicky and Les with 22, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 21, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the last seven days. Give it a go and let me know your score.
A selection of today's front pages
2. What is the name of the Northern Ireland Minister, a prominent Brexiteer, who welcomed the post-Brexit deal, saying the last seven years had 'cost me my mental health’?
3. What did former DUP leader Arlene Foster describe as ‘crass’, former cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg say was 'constitutionally unwise’ and Labour MP Chris Bryant say was a 'terrible mistake’?
4. Leaked WhatsApp messages taken from the phone of former Health Secretary Matt Hancock were published as The Lockdown Files in which newspaper?
5. What is the name of the journalist, the ghost writer of Matt Hancock's book Pandemic Diaries, who leaked 100,000 WhatsApp messages between the former Health Secretary and his colleagues about Covid policy?
6. Which group of workers were accused by a cabinet minister of using the shortage of PPE as an ‘excuse' not to work during the pandemic, according to the leaked messages from Matt Hancock?
7. Former Health Minister Lord Bethell said that the Government briefly considered ordering all what to be killed, fearing they could be spreading Covid?
8. What is the name of the senior civil servant, who investigated the lockdown gatherings in Downing Street, who has been offered a job as Keir Starmer's chief of staff?
9. In a City of London speech Labour leader Keir Starmer said Britain was getting poorer while our European neighbours get richer, saying: 'I'm not comfortable with that, not comfortable with a trajectory that will soon see Britain overtaken by ___.’ What country is the missing word?
10. The body of a baby was found after a couple, who disappeared in January with the child, were arrested in which city?
11. Why did Greek transport minister Kostas Karamanlis resign, saying it was 'the least he could do' and criticising the country’s 'long-standing failures’?
12. The head of MI5 Ken McCallum said he was 'profoundly sorry’ that the security service did not prevent what?
13. At least 60 people, including children, died after a boat carrying refugees crashed into rocks off the coast of which country?
14. According to the Department of Levelling Up, Communities and Housing the number of people doing what in England rose by more than a quarter last year?
15. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s spokesman said that couple had been asked to leave their UK residence, which goes by what name?
16. Auriol Grey, 49, who has cerebral palsy and is partially sighted, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for three-years by Peterborough Crown Court for causing the death of a cyclist by doing what?
17. Who failed the 11-plus, was a shop assistant, a shorthand-typist and a dancer with the Tiller Girls before becoming the Labour MP for West Bromwich in 1973?
18. Thousands of what were thrown on to the pitch during a football match in Turkey between Beşiktaş and Antalyaspor?
19. Four pupils at Kettlethorpe High School in Wakefield were suspended, and police are investigating, after what suffered ‘minor’ damage?
20. Greta Thunberg was detained in Oslo for protesting about a wind farm which she and activists say hinders indigenous people to raise what in Arctic Norway?
21. Thousands of people took over London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday night. Who were they?
22. Marks & Spencer apologised after a food display placed what next to spring onions, leading to concerns that customers could be poisoned?
23. Which League Two football team reached the FA Cup quarter-finals for the first time in 84 years by beating Premier League side Southampton?
24. The last set of stamps showing the late Queen's head, which were issued by the Royal Mail, featured the 100th anniversary of what?
25. Which two bands were announced as the headliners, with Elton John, at this year’s Glastonbury? Half a point for each?
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