Friday 26 May 2023

Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 20, ahead of Marion Fountayne and Rob Lawrence on 18, Robert Rea, Toby Brown and Jayme Bryla on 17, Maura Parsons on 16 and Gavin Devine on 15. The top team was Tony and Christine Smith with a score of 22, just ahead of the Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey, Stuart and Rachel with 21, the Dartmoor Walkers including Adam Batstone, Dominic Hurst, David Williams and Phil Hutchinson May with 20 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 19. 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. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak decided not to order an investigation into whether 
Home Secretary Suella Braverman broke the ministerial code by requesting what?
2. The Cabinet Office referred former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Thames Valley police because his ministerial diary revealed visits by family and friends to where during the pandemic?
3. Who said he would not seek re-election as the MP for Esher and Walton, the constituency he has represented since 2010?
4. Industry regulator Ofgem announced a drop in the energy price cap from £3,280 per year to what for the average household from July 1?
5. Sir Iain Livingstone, the chief constable of Police Scotland, admitted that ‘institutional racism, sexism, __ and discrimination' existed in his force. What is the missing word?
6. At the G7 summit in Japan Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared the 'total destruction' of which city to the devastation in Hiroshima after the nuclear strike of 1945?
7. Why was the Barragem do Arade reservoir in the headlines?
8. What is the name of the Cardiff suburb where rioting broke out, cars were set alight, fireworks thrown at police and 15 officers injured, following the death of two teenagers?
9. Holly Willoughby issued a statement in response to co-presenter Phillip Schofield quitting ITV’s This Morning, thanking him for his knowledge, experience,  humour and adding ‘the __ won’t feel the same without him’. What is the missing word?
10. Ten people were taken to hospital after a double decker bus’s roof was ripped off when it hit a railway bridge in which city?
11. A man was arrested and held on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving after crashing his car into which building's gates?
12. Whose launch for his bid for the Republican presidential nomination for 2024 was delayed by 20 minutes after a Twitter livestream failed to work?
13. An 81-year-old woman died two weeks after being hit by a police motorcycle that was escorting who through London?
14. According to FBI files why were the walkways on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco closed briefly in March 1983?
15. Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris, who died aged 93, had four UK top ten hits before he was convicted of sexually abusing children. Name two of them. Half a point for each.
16. Which European football club reported racist abuse towards one if its players to the country’s prosecutor's office as a hate crime?
17. Hundreds of strangers and celebrities were among the mourners at a Westminster Church to honour Peter Brown, who died aged 96, for his role as what?
18. The New York Times described him as 'the crown prince of literary hipness' and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg as 'the good-looking bad guy of late 20th-century Eng Lit’. Who were they referring to?
19. Manchester City won the title and joined their neighbours Manchester United as the only teams to have done what in Premier League history?
20. Whose 12-year-old son raised more than £40,000 to help bereaved forces children 'in honour' of his father?
21. Who did Barak and Michelle Obama describe as raw, powerful and unstoppable, Mick Jagger as inspiring, warm, funny and generous and Elton John as exciting and electric?
22. Which English football club qualified for Europe for the first time in its 122-year history?
23. Entertainer George Logan, who died aged 78, was best known as one half of which comedy duo who had their own TV shows on the BBC in the 1970s and 80s?
24. What did the Princess of Wales decline to do at the Chelsea Flower Show because, she said, it wasn’t allowed, explaining 'it’s just one of those rules’?
25. Which 70-year-old announced he would be attempting to swim the English Channel to help people living with the rare skin disorder Epidermolysis bullosa?

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