It's the election week newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Nick Turner, Sally Duffin and George Mann who all scored 21. Robert Rea scored 19 and the Rev Leon and Judith M both scored 18. The top team was Global’s Sunday subs including Amelia Cox, Tom Croadsell, Daniel Windle, Louise Gookey, Elizabeth Secker and John Stratford with 23. Tony and Christine Smith, Maura and Phil Parsons and Bruce and Sarah Hayward all scored 21, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 18 and Our Peter, Jackie, Carole and Trev 17. After a busy newsweek, dominated of course by the General Election, here is this week’s newsquiz. Why not take a break from the results and analysis, give the quiz a go and let me know your score.

Some of today's front pages

1. In his first speech as Prime Minister, as he arrived at Downing Street from Buckingham Palace, Keir Starmer said: 'We have changed the Labour Party, returned it to service - that is how we will govern. ___ first, party second.’ What is the missing word?

2. In his resignation speech as Prime Minister and Tory leader, who did Rishi Sunak describe as 'a decent, public spirited man who I respect’?

3. Which two parties had mixed fortunes - one going from 11 seats up to more than 70 and one down from 43 seats to nine, possibly ten? Half a point for each.
4. Which party quadrupled its representation in the Commons after taking one seat from Labour and two from the Conservatives?

5. Which of these former Cabinet ministers retained their seat in the election a) Penny Mordaunt b) Steve Barclay c) Gillian Keegan d) Grant Shapps?

6. Former Southampton FC chairman Rupert Lowe was elected as MP for Great Yarmouth representing which party?

7. Which high-profile candidate lost his Rochdale seat to Labour - and didn't even turn up to hear the result?

8. What linked these five constituencies - Finchley, Witney, Maidenhead, Uxbridge and South Ruislip and South West Norfolk?

9. Which Tory retained the Fareham and Waterlooville seat and said in a victory speech: 'I'm sorry that my party didn't listen to you. The Conservative Party has let you down. You, the great British people, voted for us over 14 years and we did not keep our promises’?

10. Who said: 'I want to place on record my enormous thanks to the people of Islington North for electing me for the 11th time’? 

11. After Rishi Sunak’s resignation speech, who did the bookies make favourite to replace him as Tory party leader, ahead of Tom Tugenhat and Priti Patel?

12. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey shouted 'do something you’ve never done before - vote Liberal Democrat’ while doing what on the campaign trail?

13. More than 90 constituencies raised concerns about what not arriving before yesterday’s General Election?

14. What did US President Joe Biden describe as a 'dangerous precedent’ and 'a terrible disservice' to Americans’?
15. A CBS News/YouGov poll indicated that 72 per cent of registered voters in America believed what about President Joe Biden - with 49 per cent saying the same of Donald Trump?

16. Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration National Rally won what per cent of the vote in France’s first round elections - which left President Emmanuel Macron’s party in third place?

17. Wandsworth prison guard Linda De Sousa Abreu, 30, appeared at Uxbridge magistrates court after a video emerged of her apparently doing what?

18. What is the name of the hurricane that brought devastation and at least ten deaths to the Caribbean?

19. Figures from the Student Loan Company revealed that almost 1.8 million people in the UK owed more than how much in student debt?

20. England footballer Jude Bellingham faced a Uefa investigation after his equali­ser against Slovakia on Sunday for doing what?

21. What event at Glastonbury Festival was labelled ‘vile' and 'not funny' by the then Home Secretary, James Cleverly?

22. In the Grocer Gold Awards, Marks & Spencer’s lost its title as Britain's grocer of the year, for the first time in nearly two decades, to which supermarket?

23. Nine-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan is set to make history as the youngest person ever to represent England internationally at what?

24. Which two grand slam champions entered the Wimbledon mixed doubles as last-minute wildcards? Half a point for each name?

25. Which Hollywood actor, in a wheelchair, played guitar on Fix You with Coldplay at Glastonbury?

Answers here