Friday 5 April 2024

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were George Mann and Robert Rea who both scored 22, just ahead of Toby Brown on 21, Janet Boyle on 20, Tony Smith on 18 and Nick Turner on 16. The top teams were Neil and Jo Benson with Easter guests and Maura and Phil Parsons who scored 20. Bruce and Sarah Hayward, Broad Oak boozers Thom, Rosie, Tim and Adam Batstone, Lucy Thorpe and daughter Meg scored 19 and Sam Lawley and Ed Holt 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. Seven aid workers, including three Britons, working for which charity were killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza?
2. Who called for a ceasefire in Gaza telling an audience of tens of thousands that: 'Peace is never made with arms, but with outstretched hands and open hearts’?
3. What did Tory MP William Wragg apologise for, saying he had 'hurt people by being weak’?
4. Sir Jeffrey Donaldson resigned as leader of which political party after being charged with sexual offences?
5. According to analysis of NHS data by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, more than how many patients a week were believed to be dying unnecessarily, due to long waits in A&E in England?
6. From Monday, what increased from £10.42 to £11.44?
7. Who announced they had ended their pay dispute with the Government after accepting a deal that means some will receive a 20 per cent increase? 
8. What was introduced this week that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a 'positive and exciting moment’ but which Labour said was ‘a total mess’?
9. Police Scotland said they would not be arresting who, under new hate crime laws, for listing sex offenders who described themselves as transgender on X?
10. British judges have been told by the Sentencing Council, to consider handing out more lenient sentences to who?
11. How did Edward Courage, the heir to Courage Brewery, reportedly save the lives of two brothers in the Swiss Alps?
12. The UK Health Security Agency said one person had died and dozens more were ill after a 'superbug' outbreak linked to contamination found in what?
13. A 7.2-magnitude earthquake in which country killed at least nine people and injured more than 800?
14. Billionaire Joe Lewis, whose family owns which football club, was fined $5million by a New York judge for insider trading?
15. A knifeman held people hostage for nine hours at the Cafe Petticoat nightclub in which European country?
16. Journalist Pouria Zeraati, 36, who was stabbed outside his home in west London, is a TV presenter covering which country?
17. How did 27-year-old actor Chance Perdomo, known for his roles in the Netflix horror series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and the BBC drama Killed by My Debt, die?
18. Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, talking about the defeat to Cambridge in the annual boat race, said: 'It would be a lot nicer if there wasn't as much __ in the water’. What is the missing word?
19. How old was the boy arrested for killing a child and seriously wounding two others in a shooting at a school in Finland?
20. What is the storm called, named by 
Met Éireann, which is expected to bring gales to the UK this weekend?
21. Adidas banned football fans from buying German football kits customised with what number because of its resemblance to a Nazi SS symbol?
22. Why did BBC Antiques Roadshow expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan refuse to value an ivory disc engraved with the name of a person and a ship?
23. Bass guitarist Chris Cross, who died aged 71, was credited with co-writing Ultravox’s biggest chart hit which reached No 2 in 1981. What was it called?
24. Which building is to be opened to the public for the first time – for £100 a ticket and an extra £50 for afternoon tea?
25. Who was named the most iconic video game character of all time to mark the 20th Bafta Games Awards?

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