Friday 19 May 2023

It's newsquiz time

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with an impressive 23. Gavin Devine scored 21, Marion Fountayne, Robert Rea and Janet Boyle 20 and Jayme Bryla and Nick Turner 19. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons on 22, ahead of Jess Devonport and Nicholas Collins on 20.5, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Three Legs drinkers Peter and Stacey on 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. The Office for National Statistics said the number of people not working in the UK due to long-term sickness had reached a new record of how many?
2. The G7 leaders agreed sanctions to 'starve the Russian war machine’ at their annual meeting which is being held in which city?
3. Who did Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meet at Chequers for 'substantive negotiations’ on Monday?
4. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, saying his party was looking at expanding the voting franchise, said that what 'did not pass the common sense test’?
5. Which company announced plans to reduce its workforce by up to 55,000 by 2030, including about 10,000 jobs to be replaced by artificial intelligence?
6. Which company blamed strike action for contributing to a full-year loss of more than £1billion for the year to March?
7. The Treasury said that what had cost the Government an estimated £162million last year?
8. Water companies in England apologised for sewage spills and pledged to invest how much this decade to help resolve the problem?
9. What is the name of the carmaker, that owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, which warned it may have to close UK factories if the Government does not renegotiate the Brexit deal?
10. What was put up for sale in the UK by its owner, Canadian private equity firm Brookfield, for between £4billion and £5billion?
11. Timothy Schofield, the brother of television presenter Phillip Schofield, was jailed for how many years by a judge at Bristol Crown Court after being convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy?
12. A spokesman for Harry and Meghan claimed that: 'The Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Ms Ragland were involved in a __ __ car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi.’ What are the two missing words?
13. Brentford striker Ivan Toney was banned from football for eight months after admitting 232 breaches of the Football Association's rules on what?
14. Why was the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Italy called off this weekend?
15. Colombian President Gustavo Petro was accused of creating false hope by doing what?
16. American prosecutors charged Terry Martin, 76, with stealing what from a museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota?
17. Andy Rourke, who died from pancreatic cancer aged 59, was the bass guitarist with which band?
18. Actor Victor Gallucci, who died aged 81, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-serving extra for his 900 appearances as DC Tom Baker in which ITV series?
19. Why did Pascal Jansen, manager of AZ Alkmaar, apologise and say he was ‘ashamed’ after his side’s Europa Conference League semi-final defeat to West Ham?
20. After this week’s semi-finals, which two cities will be represented in the Champions League final? Half a point for each.
21. Who was presented with the Ivor Novello academy’s highest honour for songwriting and warned that musicians face a battle against artificial intelligence?
22. Rugby league legend Kevin Sinfield carried former fellow player Rob Burrow, who has motor neurone disease, over the finishing line in the first marathon to be held in which city for 20 years?
23. Who collected the Best Actress award at the Baftas, saying of her trophy: 'If I could break it in half, I would give the other half to my daughter, we did this together, kiddo’?
24. Ed Sheeran, Adele and Harry Styles were all included in which list that was published this week?
25. What was the name of the singer who won Eurovision for Sweden?

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