Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Marguerite Turner with 22, just ahead of Janet Boyle, George Mann and Nick Turner who all scored 21. Others on the leaderboard were Toby Brown with 20 and Gavin Devine with 17. Bruce and Sarah Hayward were the top team with a remarkable 24, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 22 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 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.

Today's front pages

1. Grant Shapps, who was appointed as Defence Secretary, has held five Cabinet positions in the last year but what was his most recent?
2. In his resignation letter as Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace wrote to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak: 'I genuinely believe that over the next decade the world will get more __ and more __.' What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
3. Why did the Government tell more than 100 schools in England to shut buildings? 
4. National Air Traffic Services blamed the system failure, which led to more than 1,600 flights being cancelled, on wrong data being input by an airline believed to be from what country?
5. James Cleverly became the first British Foreign Secretary in five years to visit where?
6. Tory MP Nadine Dorries, in her resignation letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, wrote: 'Since you took office a year ago, the country is run by a __ Parliament where nothing meaningful has happened.’ What is the missing word?
7. What name has been given to the group who have been vandalising ULEZ cameras in London and is supported by Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith?
8. According to The Times, the Home Office is considering using what to monitor asylum seekers arriving in the UK via unauthorised means?
9. House prices in the UK fell by 5.3 per cent in the year to August, according to Nationwide, meaning a typical home is worth how much less than 12 months ago? a) £,8,000, b) £10,200 c) £12,400 d) £14,600
10. Philip and Elaine Marco, aged 77 and 75, died after their car drove through a flooded road in which city?
11. Eight men were stabbed and 275 people arrested at what London event?
12. Teacher Sarah Moulds, 39, who was sacked after a video was shared on social media, was found not guilty of what by Lincoln Crown Court?
13. How was police Sergeant Graham Saville killed when trying to save a distressed man near Newark?
14. P&O cruise ship Britannia broke free from its mooring and collided with a freight vessel when heavy storms hit which European island?
15. The National Records of Scotland said the number of people who died from what rose to the highest level since 2008 with 1,276 deaths in 2022?
16. Military officers appeared on national TV in which country to say they had seized power and placed President Ali Bongo under house arrest?
17. More than 70 people died and at least 40 were injured following a fire at a building in which city?
18. Army veteran Joe Biggs, a leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was jailed for how many years - one of the longest terms handed out over the US Capitol riot?
19. Tributes were paid to 22-year-old Sam Newey from Solihull after he was killed doing what?
20. Eight people, including a four-month-old baby, were injured after a rental car, reportedly driven by a British tourist, ploughed into a bar on which island?
21. Which Premier League football team’s bus had a brick thrown at its windscreen on the M65?
22. The mother of Spain’s football president Luis Rubiales locked herself inside a church and announced what in protest at his 'inhumane treatment' following his kiss on footballer Jenni Hermoso?
23. What was being prepared for its return to Canada from the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh after almost a century?
24. Doctors in Australia revealed that, in a world’s first, they had removed a three-inch what from a woman’s brain?
25. Which singer spent a night in hospital after falling at his house in France?

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