Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 23. Others on the leaderboard were Janet Boyle with 21.5, the Rev Leon with 19 and Gavin Devine with 16. The top teams were Peter and Stacey, from a Newport Beach rooftop, and Bruce and Sarah Hayward who scored 21.5. Phil and Maura Parsons with Libby scored 19 and Our Peter, Jackie, Sarah and Joe and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe  both scored 18.5. Here is 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. 

Today's front pages

1. The three girls who were killed in a knife attack in Southport were taking part in what?

2. Axel Muganwa Rudakubana was named, when he appeared at Liverpool Crown Court charged with murdering three girls in Southport, despite being what age?

3. Merseyside Police said supporters of what organisation were behind the violence, after the Southport stabbings, which saw more than 50 police officers injured?
4. The Government offered the British Medical Association a pay rise deal of what per cent over two years for junior doctors in England?
5. Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Labour government had inherited a projected overspend of how many billions of pounds from the Conservatives?
6. Under plans announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, around ten million pensioners in England and Wales will lose what?
7. The Bank of England's governor said reducing interest rates, the first cut since March 2020, from 5.25 per cent to what per cent was 'an important moment in time’?
8. Former BBC newsreader Huw Edwards pleaded guilty to how many offences related to indecent images of children when he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court?
9. US Presidential candidate Donald Trump said that his rival Kamala Harris had 'all of a sudden made a turn’ and become what?
10. A 31-year-old woman and an eight-year-old girl died after a house fire, which police are treating as suspicious, in which English town?
11. Far-Right activist Tommy Robinson could face jail after doing what at a Trafalgar Square rally?

12. A prisoner exchange between Russia and America in Turkey included journalist Evan Gershkovich who works for which newspaper?
13. Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli attack on which city? 
14. Why was the Scottish island of Torsa in the headlines?
15. What was the name of the writer, who died aged 93, whose book The Country Girls was banned, burned and denounced from the pulpit in her native Ireland? 
16. Manchester City were fined just over £2million for doing what 22 times over the last two seasons?
17. Stephen Lawrence's body is to be returned to the UK from which country, 31 years after his murder, to be closer to his family?
18. Influencer and model Lauryn Goodman has suffered a court defeat with the judge saying she treated which footballer as an 'open-ended chequebook’? 

19. Olympic organisers apologised after a banquet sequence featuring drag artists in the opening ceremony was said to parody what, causing offence to Christians?

20. Who posted a message on social media saying 'what emotions! What a beautiful moment! How many tears!!!! I’m bursting with pride’ after his daughter won an Olympic medal?
21. Who won his fifth Olympic medal for Great Britain alongside partner Noah Williams?
22. Swimmer Tom Dean announced he will go directly from winning a gold medal in Paris to competing in what?
23. Who won her sixth Olympic gold and celebrated by wearing a sparkly goat necklace, saying ’they always call me the GOAT, so I thought it would be really special if I got one made’?

24. Tuesday was the hottest day of the year so far in the UK with the Met Office recording what temperature at both Heathrow and Kew Gardens, London?

25. Mystic Uri Geller revealed he paid £40,000 for what at an auction at Farleigh golf club in Surrey?

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