Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 21, ahead of George Mann on 19 and Gavin Devine, Nick Turner and Robert Rea all on 18. The top team was Global's newsroom with Tim Humphrey, Alicia Edwards, Lucinda Horsley, Tom Croasdell, Amelia Cox and Andy Ivy who scored 23. Maura and Phil Parsons scored 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 18 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 17. 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. 

Today's front pages

1. President Joe Biden said the US would stop supplying some weapons if Israel did what?
2. Which Conservative MP defected to the Labour Party, saying the Tories 'have become a byword for incompetence and division’?
3. Former Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi quoted which of his 'most famous constituents' when he announced he would stand down as an MP at the next election? 
4. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met with university bosses in Downing Street to address the rise in what?
5. Kate Forbes returned to the Scottish government in what role, as new leader John Swinney unveiled an almost entirely unchanged cabinet?
6. Re-elected Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said he wanted to 'press pause' on what flagship initiative introduced by Margaret Thatcher?
7. Businessman and politician Andy Street said he was 'not putting the blame elsewhere' for what?
8. The Home Office said that chaos where was not caused by a cyber attack?
9. What did China describe as a 'fabricated and malicious slander’?
10. King Charles was said to be ‘too busy’ to meet Prince Harry who returned to Britain to celebrate which anniversary of the Invictus Games?
11. Porn actress Stormy Daniels told the Donald Trump fraud trial in New York that she had spanked him with a rolled-up copy of Forbes magazine that featured who on the cover?
12. Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch said proposed legislation would mean that new restaurants, shopping centres and offices in England would be required to have what?
13. The UK Health Security Agency announced that cases of what infection were rising, with five babies reported to have died this year?
14. A five-month-old baby died after a 'neglect incident' at which theme park?
15. British toddler Opal Sandy was able to do what after becoming the first person in the world to take part in a pioneering gene therapy trial?
16. Actor Bernard Hill, who died aged 79, got his television break playing which character in BBC's Bafta award-winning Boys From The Blackstuff?
17. What is the name of the breast cancer charity founded by Kris Hallenga, who died aged 38?
18. What is the name of the author of best-sellers, including Superwoman and Lace, who died aged 91, just days after receiving her damehood?
19. Hollywood actor Will Ferrell is to join other celebrity investors in which Championship football club?
20. People in the town of Chatteris have been told by Cambridgeshire County Council to complete a £165 safety course before they are allowed to do what?
21. North Yorkshire Council announced it was to ban what on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems?
22. Which British driver took the chequered flag for the first time in more than 100 races at the Miami Grand Prix?
23. What role, previously carried out by Catherine Tate, Nigella Lawson, Mel Giedroyc, Richard Osman and Cheryl Baker, will Joanna Lumley be performing this weekend?
24. Daniel Rooney, 26, was playing in a hotel bar in Glasgow when he was asked to stand-in for Olly Murs and support which band at the Ovo Hydro?
25. Who said her mother had been fooled by an artificial intelligence photo into thinking she was at the Met Gala in New York?

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