Friday 27 October 2023

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Jayme Bryla and Toby Brown both with 20.5. They were just ahead of George Mann on 20, Thomas Godfrey on 19.5, Johnny Jenkins on 18, Robert Rea on 17.5 and Marguerite Turner on 17. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 21, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18.5 and Playden Oast drinkers Pete, Stacey, Les, Thom and Amanda on 18. 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 front pages

1. Government ministers and the Metropolitan police appeared to be at odds over whether the use of which word was an incitement to violence?
2. Israel called for the resignation of who, saying he had lost 'all morality and impartiality'?
3. Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, was photographed making what 'remarkable gesture'?
4. Which country's queen condemned Western media coverage of the war in Israel and Gaza, saying there is a 'glaring double standard' in how it covers attacks on Palestinian and Jewish communities’?
5. Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a visit to Israel and said Hamas was not a terrorist organisation but a '__ group'. What is the missing word?
6. Tory MP Crispin Blunt, who had the party whip suspended, was arrested in connection with allegations of what two offences? Half a point for each.
7. What is the name of the small US city in Maine where a gunman shot dead 18 people?
8. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a speech that he was generally 'optimistic' about the potential of what to transform people's lives for the better?
9. A Just Stop Oil activist was arrested after spraying orange paint over what at London's Natural History Museum?
10. Retailers, including John Lewis, Tesco and the Co-op, agreed to pay almost £800,000 over two years to fund Project Pegasus to tackle what?
11. A report by the NHS ombudsman warned that what is still killing too many patients due to the same hospital failings that happened a decade ago?
12. One person died and four are missing after a British cargo ship called what sank following a collision in the North Sea?
13. An off-duty pilot was accused of trying to shut down the engines of a plane from which airline during a flight?
14. Police received a complaint after a girl was arrested in Leeds for saying a female officer looked like what?
15. Which country’s prime minister joined tens of thousands of women on a one-day strike in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence?
16. Bobby Charlton's death at 86 means there is only one member of England's 1966 World Cup winning team still alive. Name him.
17. US actor Richard Roundtree, who died aged 81, was best known for the ground-breaking portrayal of which black detective in the 1970s?
18. Bill Kenwright, the chairman of Everton Football Club, played Gordon Clegg in which television programme?
19. Lewis Hamilton was disqualified, losing his second-place at the US Grand Prix, after what part of his Mercedes failed an inspection? 
20. Why have Remembrance poppies, which went on sale yesterday (Thurs), been redesigned?
21. The Grevin Museum in Paris made what change to a waxwork of wrestler-turned-actor Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson after he complained about it?
22. How old was Bobi, the world's oldest dog, who died at his home in Portugal?
23. England’s cricketers’ World Cup hopes hang by a thread after their third defeat. Which country beat them by eight wickets this week?
24. What is the name of the actress who expressed her 'deepest regret’ at having to leave Strictly Come Dancing, adding that she 'did not come to this decision easily or lightly’?
25. Paul McCartney said he had used artificial intelligence to create 'the final Beatles record’. What is the song’s name?

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