Friday 25 August 2023

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 21, ahead of Marion Fountayne on 19, George Mann, Robert Rea and Gavin Devine on 18 and Marguerite Turner on 17. The top teams were Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Maura and Phil Parsons with 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17. 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.


A selection of today's papers

1. Justice James Goss gave killer nurse Lucy Letby a whole life sentence saying: 'You acted in a way that was completely contrary to the normal human instincts of __ and __ for babies’? What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
2. Former barrister and TV personality Robert Rinder was among those calling for what law to be changed following the Lucy Letby trial?
3. Donald Trump joined the likes of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Al Capone and Dr Martin Luther King Jr in having what issued - the first ever for a former President?
4. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised for 'inadvertently' breaking the MPs' code of conduct by not declaring what?
5. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he would not have been able to afford what if the economy had been in a similar position in the early 1980s as it is now?
6. The largest gap on record between top GCSE grades awarded in London, and what other region, prompted school leaders to accuse the Government of 'London-centric' policies and Labour to say that 'levelling up is dead and buried’?
7. Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced an inquiry into the Crown Prosecution Service, Greater Manchester Police and the Criminal Cases Review Commission following the case of Andrew Malkinson who spent how many years in jail for a rape he did not commit?
8. Which police force lost nearly three years worth of body-worn camera footage from its computer systems with an estimated 69 cases affected?
9. Who told a Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry how he was sexually and physically abused at Edinburgh Academy, was 'tossed like a ragdoll' and was punched and kicked by a teacher?
10. The fire services in mid and west Wales announced their firefighters will start using what to tackle blazes ?
11. The UK’s first-ever transplant of what, from one sister to another, was hailed as the 'dawn of a new era’?
12. Vladimir Putin confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, saying the Wagner chief had made 'some serious mistakes' and met with a 'difficult fate’? How did Prigohzin die?
13. Why did Phil Spencer, best known for presenting the Channel 4 property show Location, Location, Location, say his family were 'shocked beyond all belief’?
14. India became the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on which region of the moon?
15. Who announced on his radio show that he had been diagnosed with skin cancer?
16. The Greek fire service said that it had found how many bodies in a forested area hit by wildfires?
17. Eight people were pulled to safety after a dramatic rescue effort hauled them from what in northwest Pakistan?
18. Why did FIFA open disciplinary proceedings against the Spanish Football Association's president Luis Rubiales?
19. Two men died during the swimming leg of what event in County Cork?
20. Sky Sports apologised for saying which Premier League football manager looked like a ‘croupier’ when he was wearing a black armband and tie in memory of a colleague who died working on the club's stadium?
21. China said it would block imports after Japan’s controversial decision to do what?
22. What is the name of the British athlete who beat Norway's Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen to take the 1500m gold at the World Championships in Budapest?
23. Sportswear company Nike agreed to produce a limited number of what after a petition gained 150,000 signatures?
24. England did not win the Women's World Cup but one of its players, Mary Earps, won what personal award?
25. Comedian Lorna Rose Treen took home the prize for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. The joke was: ‘I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a __.’ What is the missing word?

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