Friday, 1 December 2023

Time to tackle the newsquiz ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Chay Quinn with an amazing 24, ahead of Marguerite Turner on 22, Marion Fountayne, Toby Brown, George Mann and Janet Boyle on 21, Robert Rea, Liz Gerard and Jayme Bryla on 20 and Gavin Devine on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 22, ahead of Queen’s Head drinkers Pete and Stacey on 21, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Neil and Jo Benson on 20 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 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. 

Tributes to Terry Venables dominated
Monday's front pages 

1. A book by biographer Omid Scobie was pulled from the shelves in which country after a 'translation error' included the names of two royal family members who allegedly raised questions about Prince Archie's skin colour?
2. What is Omid Scobie's book called?
3. After Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with the Greek PM, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said at PMQs: 'Never mind the British Museum, it's the Prime Minister who has obviously lost his __’. What is the missing word?
4. World leaders are meeting at Cop28 which is being held where?
5. Ahead of the Cop28 summit, which country insisted that coal, which it depends on for almost three-quarters of its electricity generation, will remain its main source of energy for years to come?
6. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Covid Inquiry that what would have cut deaths in the first Covid wave by 90 per cent?
7. Former Cabinet minister Sajid Javid told the Covid Inquiry he felt Boris Johnson was 'not in charge' and that who was 'running the Government’ during the pandemic?
8. Two teenagers appeared at Manchester Crown Court accused of stabbing 16-year-old Brianna Ghey how many times in a 'sustained and violent attack' in a park near Warrington?
9. The family and friends of Israeli-Irish girl Emily Hand celebrated what birthday after she was released from captivity in Gaza?
10. The UK detected its first ever human case of H1N2, a strain of what disease, after a patient was tested by a GP in North Yorkshire?
11. Which English city's council issued a Section 114 notice, in effect declaring itself bankrupt?
12. Staff at Caversham Primary School told an inquest that there was a 'direct link' between head teacher Ruth Perry’s ‘deterioration' and ‘death’ and what?
13. How old was former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War, who died this week?
14. Forty-one labourers were rescued after 17 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel under which mountain range?
15. Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair said 'I never met anyone who didn't like him’, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said he did 'the right thing for the country at a time of extraordinary turmoil’ and Boris Johnson described him as a ’towering figure’. Who were they talking about?
16. Which one of these football teams did Terry Venables, who died aged 80, not manage - Crystal Palace, Queens Park Rangers, Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur,
Chelsea, England or Australia?
17. Who used an appearance at Westminster to urge MPs to do more to meet the target of ending HIV transmissions in England by 2030?
18. Actor Dean Sullivan, who died aged 68, was best known for his portrayal of Jimmy Corkhill in which television series between 1986 and 2003?
19. The Government stepped in to potentially block a loan repayment that would have allowed a UAE-backed group to take control of which UK newspaper?
20. England rugby captain Owen Farrell made himself unavailable for the 2024 Six Nations ‘in order to prioritise' what?
21. Author Paul Lynch won the Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song about the rise of a fascist regime in which city?
22. What is the name of the pub that made a £700 Christmas advert that racked up millions of views on social media and was shown on national TV?
23. Name the two I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here contestants who quit the show for medical reasons this week? Half a point for each.
24. Ladbrokes slashed the odds on what song to be No 1 at Christmas to 1/4?
25. Who said goodbye to Edinburgh as they prepared to return home to China after 12 years?

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