Trainee Meike wins the newsquiz

I have just finished an interesting week with ten Daily Mail trainee journalists and one from the Evening Standard in Kensington. They wrote intros, headlines and stories and had sessions with training manager Sue Ryan, chief reporter Sam Greenhill and news-editor Sam Marsden. The best intro of the week award went to Josh Thory-Rao and the best headlines were written by Erin Waks and Meike Leonard. All won lottery scratchcards. We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz. This week’s winner, who also won a scratchcard, was Meike with a score of 17.5. In last week’s newsquiz the top solo scorer was Janet Boyle with 20.5, ahead of Toby Brown on 19.5 and Gavin Devine and Marion Fountayne on 18. The top three teams were Neil and Jo Benson on 20, Maura and Phil Parsons on 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17.5. Here is this week’s newsquiz. Give it a go and see if you can beat Meike’s score. 

Tuesday's front pages

1. Who railed against people who sat 'on their arses’ and urged schools ’to get off their backsides’ in the crumbling concrete crisis?
2. During PMQs Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the crumbling schools crisis was the result of 13 years of cutting corners, adding: 'It’s the sort of thing you expect from __ __, saying that everyone else is wrong...’ What are the two missing words?
3. The schools crisis is because of buildings made from RAAC. What does it stand for?
4. In the Labour Party reshuffle Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, was made shadow deputy prime minister and Shadow Secretary for what?
5. Tory MP Nick Fletcher told Woman’s Hour that, after ten to 15 years of neglect, a Cabinet minister for what was needed?
6. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak arrived in which city for the G20 summit?
7. How is Daniel Abed Khalife, a former soldier suspected of terror offences, believed to have escaped from prison?
8. Which prison did Daniel Abed Khalife escape from?
9. Birmingham City Council declared itself ‘effectively bankrupt’ blaming the cost of a new IT system, years of funding cuts by Tory governments and £760million it had to pay for what?
10. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that what could cost taxpayers £45billion a year by 2050?
11. A police investigation was launched into the failings that led to dozens of baby deaths and injuries at maternity units in which city?
12. Mohamed Al Fayed, who died aged 94, once owned which department store, bought in 1985 for £615million, and which football club bought in 1997 for £6.25million? Half a point for each.
13. Which company’s chief executive said it had offered body-worn cameras to staff after seeing physical assaults rise by a third in a year?
14. Two people died and tourists were trapped as Storm Daniel brought devastating floods to which island?
15. A 42-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of headbutting which ex-player and football pundit at the Emirates Stadium?
16. Police in which country raided 20 homes in the hunt for the fugitive relatives of murdered ten-year-old Sara Sharif?
17. Network Rail was fined how much after admitting failings which led to the deaths of three people in a train crash near Stonehaven in Scotland?
18. What is the name of the weight-loss drug which was made available on the NHS for the first time as part of a 'controlled and limited launch’?
19. Three different players scored Premier League hat-tricks on the same day for the first time in 28 years. Manchester City’s Erling Haaland scored one but who scored the others. Half a point for each.
20. Singer Joe Fagin, who died aged 83, was best known for his hit song Breakin' Away/That's Livin’ Alright which was the theme tune for which 1980s TV series?
21. The Rugby World Cup kicks off today (Friday) with England and Scotland playing their first games at the weekend against which two countries? Half a point for each.
22. Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary was hit in the face with what by climate activists during a trip to Brussels?
23. The Rolling Stones announced details of their first album of new songs in 18 years. What is it called?
24. Which sportsman's memoir, Who Am I?, included insight into his sex life including threesomes and his relationships with actress Kelly Brook and presenter Kirsty Gallacher?
25. Who collected the best drama performance and the special recognition award at the National TV Awards?

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