Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s election newsquiz was George Mann with a personal best of 24, just ahead of Gavin Devine also with a PB of 23.5. Marion Fountayne and Janet Boyle scored 23, Liz Gerard and Sally Duffin 22, Robert Rea and Jo Wadsworth 21, the Rev Leon 20.5, Judith M 20, Nick Turner 19 and Ian McCulloch 16. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with Kennedy Paver and friends who scored 24, just ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons with 23. Our Peter, Jackie, Carole and Trevor scored 22 and Lucy Thorpe and Rachel Martin 19. Here's this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's news. Give it a go and let me know your score.

1. Labour swept to power in a landslide victory in the General Election, winning how many of the 650 seats?
2. Former Labour leader Ed Miliband was appointed to which Cabinet position?
3. Who is the new Home Secretary?
4. At his first Press conference since entering Number 10, Keir Starmer said what was 'dead and buried’?
5. What did Prime Minister Keir Starmer say was a 'much worse problem’ than he thought, had left him 'genuinely shocked’ and was 'almost beyond recklessness from the previous government’?
6. Who resigned his position in the shadow cabinet, saying: 'As a committed Conservative I will continue to support the party and help where I can as we rebuild from the very disappointing election result’?
7. Sam Carling, who won the North West Cambridgeshire seat for Labour, became the first ever MP to have been what?
8. Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch reportedly accused her potential rival, former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, of having a 'very public’ what?
9. Joe Biden made two mistakes at the Nato summit where he called Kamala Harris 'Vice President __’ and introduced Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, as 'President __’. What are the two missing names?
10. Which actor and prominent Democratic fundraiser called for Joe Biden to quit the US presidential race?
11. A mother and her two daughters were killed by a man with a crossbow in which Hertfordshire town?
12. Why did jockeys at Newmarket and Kempton Park wear black armbands?
13. What linked author Jeffrey Archer, former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott and ex-Daily Telegraph owner Conrad Black this week?
14. What is the name of broad Left alliance that gained the most votes in France’s election on Sunday?
15. Regulator Ofwat said it wanted water firms to limit rises for households to an average of how much a year until 2030 in England and Wales?
16. Security guard Gavin Plumb was sentenced to life with a minimum term of how many years following his plot to kidnap and murder Holly Willoughby?
17. A manhunt was launched after two suitcases containing human remains were found where?
18. Royal Mail announced it would stop using what, after almost 200 years, by October?
19. What was the name of the actress, who died aged 75, who rose to fame in 1980 playing Jack Nicholson’s wife in The Shining and Olive Oyl in Popeye?
20. Seventy-seven whales died after being stranded on a beach on which islands?

21. The Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire unveiled what, with the help of primary school children, in Great Cambourne?

22. French cyclist Julien Bernard was fined 200 Swiss francs (£174) for 'unseemly or inappropriate behaviour' during the Tour de France time trial. What did he do?
23. Why did England fans serenade a German police officer before the Euro 2024 semi-final in Dortmund?
24. Which of these was NOT announced once England earned a place in the Euros final on Sunday a) the men’s singles final at Wimbledon to start two hours earlier b) comedian John Bishop’s gig in Wolverhampton to be rescheduled c) Tesco to close 1,800 Express shops early d) the evening session at the darts World Matchplay to be moved to an earlier time?
25. Who sent a message to the England team which said: ‘If I may encourage you to secure victory before the need for any last minute wonder-goals or another penalties drama, I am sure the stresses on the nation’s collective heart rate and blood pressure would be greatly alleviated!’?

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