Meg wins the newsquiz wine

Meg, with the wine, and Emily

I have spent the last week with two bright Daily Mail trainees in London. They wrote stories, pitched to the newsdesk and to Femail and gained an understanding of Mail style. As usual we finished with the newsquiz. The winner, who collected a bottle of Picpoul, was Meg Bryom with 19.5 points, narrowly beating Emily Cooper. They now head back to the newsrooms in London and Glasgow and I wish them well. 

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 23, ahead of Giles Borg on 21, Tom Savage on 20, Toby Brown on 19 and Robert Rea on 16.
The top team was Amelia Cox and the Global newsroom with a maximum score of 25. Well done to them. The Queen’s Head drinkers Kevin, Mandy, Peter, Stacey, Nicky, Les and Simon scored 23, Jack Elsom and Monica Greep scored 20, Thom, Tim and Craig and Neil and Jo Benson scored 19.5, Maura and Phil Parsons 19 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17. Here is this week’s score. See if you can beat Meg’s score.

Today's front pages

1. The identity of the two underage killers of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey was lifted at Manchester Crown Court. What are their names? Half a point for each.
2. The International Monetary Fund advised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt against doing what in his spring budget?
3. In a controversial speech Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said: ’We should be starting to set out what a __ __ would look like - what it would comprise, how it would work.’ What are the two missing words?
4. What is the name of the Conservative MP who announced he would not contest the next election, saying: 'There comes a point when the threats to your personal safety become too much’?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the Government would take ’strong action’ to ban what?
6. A tearful Nicola Sturgeon told the Covid Inquiry that a large part of her wished she had not been what when the pandemic struck?
7. Politician Michelle O'Neill looks set to become the first ever what?
8. The Office for National Statistics projected that the UK population will be how many million in two years time?
9. Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, 35, was on the run after a 'targeted’ chemical attack on a mother and her two daughters in which London suburb? 
10. Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was given two prison sentences in two days. The first was for ten years. How long was the second?
11. Civil servants were told at workshops that looking at their phones or doing what could be interpreted as micro-aggression?
12. A 30-year-old man, who was shot dead by police after breaking into a South London house, was carrying a knife, sword, hatchet and which other weapon?
13. A 44-year-old man was charged with murder and five others were detained after the fatal stabbings of two boys aged 15 and 16 in which city?
14. King Charles was discharged on Monday, after treatment for an enlarged prostate, having spent how many nights in the London Clinic private hospital?
15. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revealed that he did not eat anything for how many hours at the start of each week?
16. Tech billionaire Elon Musk claimed his Neuralink company has successfully done what?
17. Who claimed that he was a target at the BBC because of professional jealously and that he was 'a second-generation immigrant of non-white, working-class roots’?
18. Who became the first football team from the sixth tier to reach the last 16 of the FA Cup since 1978?
19. Footballer Marcus Rashford was dropped from Manchester United’s FA Cup tie after going on a two-day bender in which city?
20. The Metropolitan police apologised after a volunteer officer was filmed telling 20-year-old Harmonie London to stop doing what?
21. Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton announced he will leave Mercedes at the end of the 2024 season and join which rival team?
22. What was shot with a tranquilliser dart while feeding off a bird table and returned to the Highland wildlife park where it lives?
23. Who auctioned off 120 of his guitars and amps raising over £8million - some for charity? 
24. Who was announced as Paul O’Grady's replacement on the TV series For the Love of Dogs?
25. Harry Clark collected £95,000 for being a good what?

Answers here