Friday 14 July 2023

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 21, ahead of Toby Brown on 19, Gavin Devine and Robert Rea on 17 and Marguerite Turner on 16. The top teams were Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey, Roger and Matt and Phil and Maura Parsons with 19, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 15. 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 is the name of Huw Edwards’ wife who issued a statement on his behalf, after days of speculation, 'primarily out of concern for his mental well-being and to protect our children’?
2. The Sun, which broke the Huw Edwards story, reported that a mother said her child had used the money given by the presenter to buy what?
3. Which BBC broadcaster appeared to have a slip of the tongue and 'inadvertently’ give the name of Huw Edwards ... before he was identified as the presenter, accused of paying a teenager for sex pictures?
4. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had fully accepted the recommendations of independent pay review bodies and confirmed a rise of what per cent for teachers, which was backed by all four education unions?
5. EasyJet said it had cancelled how many summer flights, mainly from Gatwick, blaming 'unprecedented air traffic control delays’?
6. The RAC reported that charges for what had increased by almost a third over the past year?
7. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said the UK was not the same as which company and that 'Kyiv might be wise to let its supporters see gratitude’ for the tens of billions of pounds of military aid?
8. The US came under criticism from its allies, including the UK, after agreeing to send what controversial weapons to Ukraine?
9. US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak were among the world leaders who met at the two-day Nato summit held in which capital city this week?
10. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said headteachers 'have a duty' to do what to tackle absence in schools - adding she would be happy to do it herself?
11. For the first time in 63 years, unions SAG-AFTRA and WGA will be on strike at the same time, hitting which industry in America?
12. A 15-year-old boy was charged with wounding with intent after a maths teacher was stabbed in a corridor at a school in which town?
13. People smuggler Marius Mihai Draghici was jailed for 12 years and seven months by a judge at the Old Bailey for the manslaughter of how many migrants who were found dead inside a lorry in Essex?
14. A red alert warning of 'unbearable’ temperatures was issued for the Mediterranean as an anticyclone weather system called what, named after Dante's three-headed dog, moved north from the Sahara desert?
15. Who told Southwark Crown Court: 'There was a rush to judgment and before the first question was asked or answered I lost my job, I lost my reputation, I lost everything in a matter of days’?
16. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and wife Carrie welcomed their third child, a baby boy with what first name?
17. Which Premier League footballer revealed he had checked himself into rehab after excessive drinking and consuming sleeping pills?
18. Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya won a human rights court appeal over the rules governing what for female athletes?
19. Protest group Just Stop Oil denied disrupting the wedding of former Chancellor George Osborne and Thea Rogers, issuing a statement which said: 'As much as we applaud the use of __ __ at this wedding, we were not responsible.’ What are the two missing words?
20. What country launched a rocket which, if successful, will make it the fourth nation to achieve a soft landing on the moon?
21. Miranda Dickson, who lives in a Unesco World Heritage Site in Edinburgh, was reported over her front door being painted in what colour?
22. Czech Marketa Vondrousova beat Ukrainian Elina Svitolina to become the first woman, since Billie Jean King in 1963, to do what?
23. Wimbledon umpire John Blom asked the crowd not to do what while players were serving?
24. Max Verstappen won the British Grand Prix but which two Brits were also on the podium. Half a point for each name.
25. What colour was the carpet outside London’s Cineworld in Leicester Square on Wednesday evening?

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