Friday, 10 November 2023

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with a score of 22, just ahead of Marion Fountayne, Toby Brown and Janet Boyle on 21. Others on the leaderboard were Robert Rea, Johnny Jenkins and Gavin Devine on 20 and Jack Surfleet on 18. The top teams were Jack Elsom and Monica Green and Maura and Phil Parsons on 20, just ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news stories. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. There were calls for 
Home Secretary Suella Braverman to be sacked after Downing Street said it had not cleared an article, published in which newspaper, that accused the Met police of bias?
2. Which Cabinet minister said of Suella Braverman’s comments about police bias, that they 'are not words that I myself would have used’?
3. During a debate on the King's Speech, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer warned Rishi Sunak that without a serious what he could not be a serious Prime Minister?
4. Prince Charles delivered the first King’s Speech in more than 70 years as he outlined how many laws that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants get through Parliament before the next election?
5. Reacting to the pro-Palestinian marches planned for the weekend, the founder of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson posted a video calling for a gathering where on Saturday 'to show that British people aren’t happy’?
6. Home Secretary Suella Braverman was criticised after saying: ‘We cannot allow our streets to be taken over by rows of tents occupied by people, many of them from abroad, living on the streets as a__ __. What are the two missing words?
7. The White House said Israel had agreed to enforce humanitarian pauses in fighting 
for how long every day to allow Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate?
8. Which two former prime ministers visited Israel, saying they were there to express solidarity with the Netanyahu government? Half a point for each.
9. United Nations secretary general António Guterres said: 'We must act now to find a way out of this brutal, awful, agonising dead end of destruction. Gaza is becoming a __ for children.’ What is the missing word?
10. Lord Sedwill, who was Cabinet Secretary until the autumn of 2020, told the Covid inquiry that he had left then Prime Minster Boris Johnson 'under no doubt’ that who should be replaced?
11. Former Tory Party chairman Jake Berry sent a letter to police exposing an alleged cover-up of what offence committed by an MP?
12. In her book, The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, former Cabinet minister Nadine Dorries revealed that a Tory known as Dr No cut up what and nailed it to a former girlfriend’s family's front door? 
13. A 14-year-old was charged with murder after a 15-year-old boy died in a stabbing near a school in which city?
14. British Steel announced a £1.25 billion plan to replace two blast furnaces in which town - threatening up to 2,000 jobs?
15. Just Stop Oil protesters were arrested after smashing the glass on the Rokeby Venus painting at the National Gallery in London, which had previously been targeted by which campaign group?
16. Two men pleaded guilty at Chester Crown Court to health and safety offences after 11 customers were left with spinal injuries while doing what?
17. Who left her weekly BBC Radio Wales show, saying she would 'not be silenced' by the corporation’s new social media guidelines?
18. Disney was criticised for recreating what in London for a TV drama?
19. Arkansas military veteran Aaron James became the first person in the world to have what transplanted?
20. Which retailer reported better-than-expected results for the first half of the year - with pre-tax profits rising 56 per cent to £326million?
21. What is the name of the newspaper company, owners of the Mirror, Express, Star and more than 200 regional titles, which announced plans to cut 450 jobs?
22. The drug anastrozole was licensed by the NHS regulatory agency after trials showed it could reduce the incidence of what by almost 50 per cent?
23. Nestle announced it had made the 'difficult decision' to scrap what confectionary bar after 64 years due to low sales?
24. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development found that British women topped the list as the world’s biggest what?
25. Britain’s loneliest sheep, rescued by farmers after being stranded on a beach in Scotland for two years, was given what name?

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