Friday, 28 June 2024

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with a personal best of 24, just ahead of Gavin Devine with 23, also a PB. George Mann, Robert Rea and Janet Boyle all scored 22, Jayme Bryla scored 21, the Rev Leon 20.5, Giles Borg 19.5, Kirsty Lewis 19 and Sally Duffin 17.5. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 24, narrowly ahead of Neil and Jo Benson on 23.5. Broad Oak drinkers Nicky, Les, George, Kevin, Robbie, Peter, Stacey and Rosie scored 23, Tony and Christine Smith and Bruce and Sarah Hayward both scored 22.5, Our Peter, Jackie, Joe and Sarah 20.5 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 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.

A selection of today's front pages

1. In the first presidential campaign debate in Atlanta, Joe Biden laid into Donald Trump over his alleged affair with Stormy Daniels, saying the former president had the ‘morals' of what?
2. When asked whether Joe Biden should step aside as presidential candidate following concerns in the televised debate with Donald Trump, who said: 'Yes it was a slow start but it was a strong finish’?
3. In the last BBC election debate the biggest round of applause went to audience member Robert Blackstock who asked Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer if they were ‘really' what?
4. Labour candidate Kevin Craig, standing in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, was suspended by the party after betting that what would happen?
5. Labour leader Keir Starmer faced a backlash from his party after he singled out which country as a place where illegal migrants were not being deported quickly enough?
6. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage came in for criticism for saying that the EU and Nato had ‘provoked’ what?
7. Reform leader Nigel Farage said he was ‘dismayed' by the views expressed by canvasser Andrew Parker who said, among other things, that all mosques should be turned into what?
8. Who did Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch say was a 'rich, lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology’?
9. Which former Cabinet minister revealed they still had 24-hour personal police protection because of threats and harassment including being called a ‘genocidal bleep’ in a supermarket? 
10. Which Conservative Party candidate described his own party as a 'shower of shit' in a video posted on Facebook?
11. In a leaked recording, Tory candidate James Sunderland, who is an aide to Home Secretary James Cleverly, used what word to describe the Government’s Rwanda scheme?
12. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walked free from a court in which remote US territory after pleading guilty to one charge of breaching the Espionage Act?
13. Junior doctors in England began a five-day strike on Thursday - meaning there have now been how many walkouts in their long-running pay dispute?
14. A power outage forced which airport to cancel all flights from two terminals on Sunday?
15. The Princess Royal was taken to hospital with a minor head injury and concussion thought to have been caused by what?
16. Security guard Gavin Plumb, 37, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court accused of planning a plot to kidnap, rape and murder who?
17. At least 1,300 people died, mostly through extreme heat, during which pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia?
18. More than 20 people died after protesters stormed which country's parliament during demonstrations over a controversial tax plan?
19. The Met Office said Wednesday was the hottest day of the year so far, with what temperature, in centigrade, recorded at Heathrow?
20. Who made an appearance at the Television and Radio Industries Club awards with a walking frame, saying he was ’not OK’ and that he felt like he was 'on ‘borrowed time’?
21. Taylor Swift hit back at who after he suggested she 'didn't play live' during her sold-out Wembley show?
22. England topped their group at Euro 2024 and will now face which country in the knockout stages on Sunday?
23. Why did England midfielder Phil Foden leave the Three Lions' Euro 2024 camp in Germany and return to the UK?
24. England's defence of the T20 cricket World Cup ended after they slumped to a 68-run thrashing by which country in the semi-final?
25. Who said she hoped to pull off a Glastonbury first by using a horse to get to the Pyramid stage on Sunday for her Legends slot?

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