Friday, 19 April 2024

It's newsquiz time ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 23, just ahead of Toby Brown and Johnny Jenkins on 22, Tony Smith and Janet Boyle on 20, Gavin Devine on 18 and Robert Rea on 17. The top team was the Global Newsroom including Amelia Cox, Steve Holden, Charlotte Lynch and Tim Humphrey on 24, ahead of Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 22, Maura and Phil Parsons on 19 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 16. 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.




1. How many people were stabbed to death at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, Sydney?
2. The Israeli military said it, with the help of other countries, had intercepted more than how many missiles and drones launched from Iran?
3. Russian military deaths in the war with Ukraine topped what figure, according to research by the BBC’s Russian unit?
4. Which city’s police were ordered by the mayor to shut down a conference for right-wing politicians, including Nigel Farage and Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban?
5. The Commons voted by 383 to 67 in favour of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to make it illegal for anyone born in which year or later to buy tobacco products?
6. Tory MP Mark Menzies was suspended after claims he made a late night call to ask for £5,000 as a matter of 'life and death' to pay off what kind of 'people'?
7. Lawyers representing more than 250 survivors of what announced they were taking legal action against MI5?
8. Inflation fell to 3.2 per cent, its lowest level in two-and-a-half years, driven by slowing prices but the cost of which of these did not fall a) pork b) crumpets c) petrol d) chocolate biscuits?
9. A report by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health called for what to be made illegal in England and Northern Ireland, saying existing laws were 'unjust and dangerously vague’?
10. Who reacted to advice from Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron by saying: 'I want to make it clear - we will make our own decisions’?
11. Police released a statement on Peter Murrell, the husband of ex-first minister Nicola Sturgeon, saying he had been 'charged in connection with the __ of funds from the Scottish National Party’. What is the missing word?
12. Former Prime Minister's Liz Truss's memoir, which she spent the week promoting, is called what?
13. After days of discussion, seven men and five women, including a sales professional, a software engineer, an English teacher and lawyers, were selected for what?
14. More than 14cm (5.6 inches) of rain - the most since records began - caused 'absolute carnage' in which city - with schools closed and flights suspended?
15. Coventry Building Society agreed to pay £780million for which bank? 
16. Lloyds Bank issued an 'urgent warning' after more than 600 of its customers were scammed while attempting to buy what?
17. A 17th Century stock exchange building in the centre of which European city was engulfed by fire with its iconic dragon spire falling into the street?
18. What was the name of the Italian fashion designer, who dressed stars including Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift and Zendaya, who died aged 83?
19. Who settled a privacy case against the publisher of the Sun, saying he could have faced a bill of up to £10million even if he had won?
20. Cricketer Derek Underwood, one of England's greatest spin bowlers, who died aged 78, was known by which nickname?
21. What is to be scrapped from the FA Cup from next season? 
22. How many teams does England have in the semi-finals of the Champions League and Europa League?
23. What did boutique gym boss Rachel Woolford, 28, win?
24. Which musical dominated the Olivier Awards, winning seven of its 11 nominations?
25. Hannah Waddingham was cheered by onlookers after she chided a photographer who appeared to ask her to do what as she arrived for the Olivier awards?

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