Last week's newsquiz was, by all accounts, trickier than usual. The top score each week averages 23 but nobody scored more than 18. The top solo scorers, all on 18, were Marguerite Turner, Janet Boyle and George Mann. Also on the leaderboard were Robert Rea on 16 and Gavin Devine on 15. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons on 18, ahead of Team Smith on 17.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17. There were many scores of less than 15, by people who normally score far higher, but I won't embarrass them by naming names. Here is this week's newsquiz. I suspect it is a bit easier ... but who knows? As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.
Today's front pages
2. Boris Johnson called on which Conservative MP on the privileges committee to resign, claiming he had shown a 'total contempt of Parliament’ by attending birthday drinks for his wife during Covid?
3. Boris Johnson stepped down as an MP and called the privileges committee a ‘__ court' whose purpose 'has been to find me guilty, regardless of the facts’. What is the missing word?
4. Which two politicians announced, on the same day as former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, they were resigning as MPs? Half a point for each.
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak accused Boris Johnson of asking him to ‘overrule' the vetting advice after the House of Lords Appointments Commission rejected how many of Mr Johnson's peerage nominations?
6. Student Grace O'Malley-Kumar, who was killed in a triple stabbing in Nottingham, was selected for England at under 16s and Under 18s in what sport?
7. The family of student Barnaby Webber, stabbed to death in Nottingham, said he was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man who was 'over the moon' to have been selected for what?
8. What was the job of Ian Coates, 65, who was named as the third victim of the Nottingham stabbings and was described as 'much-loved colleague who always went the extra mile’?
9. Manchester City became the third British team to win the treble - the domestic league, a cup and a European competition in one season. Name the other two. Half a point for each.
10. After being arrested and released without charge, who said: 'Innocence is not just a presumption I am entitled to in law. I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing’?
11. Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to historic charges after FBI agents found what at his Florida estate Mar-a-Lago?
12. Mother-of-three Carla Foster, 44, was sentenced at Stoke Crown Court to how many months in jail for inducing an abortion after the legal limit?
13. Michael Lockwood, 64, the former head of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, was charged with what?
14. Silvio Berlusconi, who died aged 86, served how many terms as Italian Prime Minister?
15. What name was given to the notorious sex parties which former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was accused of holding at his villa near Milan?
16. Ofgem ordered which company to pay £5million in compensation to consumers for poor customer service?
17. Four children were found alive in the Amazon jungle in Colombia after a plane crash had been missing for how many days?
18. Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson who died aged 87 held which other job from 1992 to 2015?
19. What is the name of the London East End ‘rogue', who died aged 89, who married a movie star, fled to Spain after a robbery, was jailed for seven years for handling the cash and was acquitted of murdering Italian Tony?
20. The Met Office said that an area of the UK stretching from the North West to the South East of England officially experienced what this week?
21. Which two English counties are facing temporary hosepipe restrictions from June 26, meaning customers cannot water their gardens, wash cars or patios and are banned from filling paddling or swimming pools? Half a point for each.
22. Scottish defender Gordon McQueen, who died aged 70, played for which two English football teams? Half a point for each.
23. Who went on a bender, saying he 'had the best day and night. To be fair, I don't think I've slept. I'm the turkey and the turkey needs feeding’ before having vodka poured down his throat?
24. Which actress is making her debut on the cover of British Vogue next month at the age of 82?
25. Who collected a Tony award for best leading actress for her one-woman Broadway show Prima Facie?
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