Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Rod Ardehali and Damon Wake with 22, ahead of Tony Smith, Thomas Godfrey, Andy Reed, George Mann, Marion Fountayne and Marguerite Turner on 21, Toby Brown and Nick Turner on 20 and Gavin Devine on 18. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 22, just ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 21. Here is this 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. What did Dame Alison Rose do that led to her resigning from her job after admitting a ‘serious error’?

2. Home Secretary Suella Braverman came under fire after ordering Home Office officials to buy what to deal with the surge in small boat crossings?

3. Who said that building denser cities would create more 'walkable, liveable communities’ and that the creation of more 'buzzy urban areas' would help the UK economy?

4. The High Court ruled the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) across London could go ahead, meaning older and more polluting vehicles will be charged how much a day from August 29?

5. Which company reported its highest ever first-half profits, of almost £1billion, up around 900 per cent from £98million in the same period last year?

6. Which consumer goods company reported its profits rose by 21 per cent over the first six months of this year, based almost entirely on raising its prices as the number of items sold fell?

7. Who did BBC director-general Tim Davie describe as 'one of the best and bravest journalists of his generation who reported fearlessly from across the world as well as presenting the news flawlessly?

8. UN Secretary General António Guterres said this week that: 'The era of global warming has ended; the era of global __ has arrived.’ What is the missing word?

9. Why were retired Metropolitan Police officers Jeremy Laxton and Jack Addis, both 63, jailed by Southwark Crown Court? 

10. Which European country is heading for a coalition government after a snap election was won by the Popular Party but without a clear majority?

11. The Metropolitan Police referred itself to the police watchdog after a mother was filmed in Croydon being restrained and handcuffed after being wrongly suspected of what?

12. Police used water cannons to disperse protesters after which country’s parliament adopted a controversial law to limit the Supreme Court's powers - preventing it from overruling government actions?

13. Soldiers in which country announced a coup on national TV, saying they had dissolved the constitution, suspended all institutions, closed the borders and had captured the president?

14. The High Court ruled that Prince Harry will be allowed to take part of his damages case against The Sun to trial ... but not his claim about what?

15. A plane fighting wildfires crashed, killing two people on which Greek island?

16. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said: 'We are __ __ ... completely focused on the fires. Over the coming days and weeks, we must remain on constant alert.’ What are the missing two words?

17. Singer Sinead O’Connor, who died age 56, once controversially destroyed a photograph of who on live television?

18. Police in San Francisco temporarily stopped the removal of what from a building in Market Street because it was 'unauthorised work’?

19. What is to be extended for at least an extra second to help overweight Britons?

20. Singer Vince Hill, who died aged of 89, reached No 2 in the UK charts in 1967 with a cover of which Sound of Music song?

21. Which British group was banned from Malaysia, and then cancelled concerts in Indonesia and Taiwan, after a gay kiss on stage?

22. In 1979 Trevor Francis, who died this week aged 69, became the first British footballer to do what?

23. Charlotte Owen, 30, became the youngest person to do what?

24. England are on the brink of last 16 qualification in the Women's World Cup after beating which two teams? Half a point for each.

25. The phenomenon that led to the most successful weekend for UK cinema-going since 2019 was known as __ fever. What is the missing word?

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