Friday 11 August 2023

It's newsquiz time

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 21, ahead of Marguerite Turner on 19 and Jayme Bryla and Marion Fountayne on 18. The top teams were Maura and Phil Parsons with 20, ahead of Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Our Peter, Joe and Sarah both with 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 15. 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 Police Service of Northern Ireland apologised for mistakenly revealing details of all its 10,000 staff when it had responded to what?
2. Downing Street backed Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson after he told asylum seekers refusing to board the Bibby Stockholm barge they should do what?
3. Which Tory MP revealed she failed to declare around £70,000 of shares in oil giant Shell while Environment Secretary?
4. Welsh Secretary David TC Davies was investigated by police over a leaflet which asked his constituents if they wanted what?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was urged by members of his party to scrap plans to ban what within three years?
6. Health Secretary Steve Barclay said covid vaccines would not be offered routinely to healthy people under what age this winter?
7. HSBC's head of public affairs Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles apologised after accusing the British Government of being weak for cutting back business deals with which country?
8. A 'major disaster’ was declared after at least 53 people were killed by wildfires on which Hawaiian island?
9. Prince Harry flew into which country to attend a summit on sport, community and philanthropy?
10. Climate activist Greta Thunberg pulled out of an appearance at which city's book festival, accusing its lead sponsor of ‘greenwashing'?
11. What is the name of the Chief Scout who commended the bravery of those who 'battled some tough conditions' at the 25th World Scout Jamboree which left hundreds requiring treatment for heat-related illnesses in South Korea?
12. Three people died and another was seriously ill after eating what during a lunch at a house in Australia?
13. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is suing the frontman on which band for defamation after he called her ‘racist' and ‘fascist’? 
14. Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan was arrested after a court in Islamabad sentenced him to how many years in jail for 'corrupt practices’?
15. West Midlands Mayor Andy Street called on what to be rebuilt 'brick-by-brick’?
16. Which TV presenter revealed he had undergone surgery for 'extensive and aggressive’ prostate cancer? 
17. After TikTok inspired raids in London’s Oxford Street, app-users urged people to go to which town, get to the beach and ‘get lit’?
18. A light aircraft made a forced landing on which A-road after suspected engine failure?
19. Songwriter, guitarist and singer Robbie Robertson, who died aged 80, fronted which group?
20. England women beat Nigeria to set up a quarter final tie against which country?
21. Who issued a public apology to Nigeria's Michelle Alozie following her sending off during the Lionesses Women's World Cup win?
22. What did US footballer Megan Rapinoe do that prompted ex-President Donald Trump to tweet: 'The US is going to hell’?
23. Why were mother and daughter Keisha Schahaff and Anastatia Mayers in the headlines?
24. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex bought the screen rights to which romantic novel by Carley Fortune?
25. The full line-up for Strictly Come Dancing was revealed with the oldest cast in its history but, who, at 78 will be this year's oldest dancer?
 

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