Friday 31 May 2024

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were George Mann and Janet Boyle with 23, ahead of Alan Geere on 22 and Robert Rea on 20. The top team was Global's Newsroom with Amelia Cox, Tim Humphrey, William Chalk, Chris Golds and Lucinda Horsley with a score of 24. Others on the leaderboard were Maura and Phil Parsons and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe both with 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 18 and Our Peter, Jackie and Steve on 15.
 
Today's front pages

1. Former US President Donald Trump was convicted on how many counts of falsifying business records in his criminal trial in New York?
2. After his conviction Donald Trump emailed supporters saying: 'This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was __.’ What is the missing word?
3. Which of these had NOT announced, up until Friday lunchtime, that they will be standing down as an MP at the election? a) Michael Gove b) Robert Jenrick c) John Redwood d) Andrea Leadsom
4. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he believed that introducing what would help foster the 'national spirit' that emerged during the pandemic?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was disappointed his plan to do what did not have enough time to become law ... but that it would be back if the Conservatives win the election?
6. Which Labour politician said: 'Although the whip has been restored, I am banned from standing as a Labour candidate’?
7. Labour leader Keir Starmer said he wanted to introduce what, following in the footsteps of other countries including Austria, Argentina and Brazil?
8. Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said, in a speech at the Rolls Royce's factory in Derby: 'Today I want to put forward a simple proposition that this changed Labour Party is today the natural party of British __’. What is the missing word?
9. Why did Lucy Allan, the Conservative MP for Telford, lose the party whip?
10. Who announced a five-day strike from June 27 - a week before election day - which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said looked 'incredibly political’?
11. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told parliament that what was a 'tragic mishap’?
12. The takeover of which British company edged closer after its owner agreed terms on a £3.57 billion offer by Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský?
13. A landslide in which country buried more than 2,000 people?
14. A 20-year-old man from Croydon was arrested on suspicion of murder after a 34-year-old woman was stabbed to death on which town’s beach?
15. Cancer Research UK said cases of what type of cancer continued to rise, with a record 20,800 cases likely to be diagnosed this year?
16. Twelve people were injured due to turbulence on a flight to Dublin from which country?
17. Pope Francis apologised for using what ‘offensive' word during a discussion about admitting gay men into seminaries?
18. Pilot Mark Long died following the crash of what type of plane in Lincolnshire?
19. Which newspaper announced plans to stop daily publication and become a weekly?
20. Iain Dale announced he was quitting his role as an LBC radio host so he could do what?
21. Electrician Gary Priddle, 56, appeared at Exeter Magistrates’ Court charged with the deaths of ten what? 
22. Who apologised to fans for postponing a concert at Manchester’s Co-op Live arena after being arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting drugs?
23. TV broadcasters Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford announced their divorce after being married for how many years?
24. Which team won the Championship play-off final and will be joining Leicester City and Ipswich Town in the Premier League next season?
25. An acoustic guitar used by who sold for $2.9million (£2.3million) via a telephone bid at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York?

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