Friday, 9 August 2024

Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week’s newsquiz appeared to be a tough one. Plenty of quizzers posted below average scores and didn’t make the leaderboard. The top solo scorers were Marion Fountayne and the Rev Leon both with 21, ahead of Robert Rea on 20 and Gavin Devine on 19. The top team was Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with 22. Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 16. 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 first three men to be jailed for violent disorder relating to the UK riots were Derek Drummond, Declan Geiran and Liam Riley who were all sentenced at which city’s crown court?
2. Downing Street criticised Elon Musk after he posted on X that what was inevitable in the UK?
3. Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick was criticised for saying police should 'immediately arrest' any protesters shouting what?
4. Who tweeted ‘my kids are crying' from a five-star holiday resort after photographs emerged he was in Cyprus?
5. Rioters set light to Holiday Inn hotels in which two English towns? Half a point for each.
6. Hundreds of people, many of them children, held a vigil and sent what 'all the way to heaven' for the three girls killed in Southport?
7. Dartford councillor Ricky Jones was suspended by Labour and arrested over a speech that called for what?
8. Bonnie Spofforth, 55, a mother-of-three and the managing director of a clothing company, was arrested for what?
9. Which group announced it would be pausing its actions while the Far Right riots were taking place?
10. What did Metropolitan Police commissioner Mark Rowley do after a Cobra meeting on Monday that he later described as a 'trivial sort of side line’?
11. Countries including India, Australia, Nigeria, Malaysia, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates and Nepal issued a warning to their citizens about what?
12. Taylor Swift cancelled three concerts in which European city after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack?
13. Who did Kamala Harris choose as her US vice-presidential running mate?
14. British Airways announced it was scrapping flights between London and which capital city, from the end of October until at least November next year?
15. A piece of artwork by the artist Banksy of a howling wolf was stolen in London. What was it painted on?
16. How old was cricketer Graham Thorpe, who played 100 Tests for England, who died this week?
17. The Prime Minister of which country resigned and fled after weeks of anti-government protests?
18. Why were Barry ‘Butch' Wilmore and Sunita Williams in the headlines?
19. Katie Price was arrested on her return to the UK after missing a bankruptcy hearing to travel for a facelift in which country?
20. Which country issued its first ever megaquake warning following tremors in the same area where one of the world's deadliest earthquakes hit almost 80 years ago?
21. The two boxers who faced allegations over their gender at the Olympics were representing which countries. Half a point for each?
22. Julien Alfred won the women's 100-metres to make history as which country's first Olympic medallist?
23. Why did athlete, George Mills, son of former footballer Danny, confront French runner Hugo Hay after the 5,000-metre heat?
24. England rugby ground Twickenham is to be renamed what in a new sponsorship deal?
25. The list of celebrities for this year’s Strictly Come Dancing included which 66-year-old punk singer?

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