Friday, 6 September 2024

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was the Rev Leon with 22, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 21, Tony Smith on 20, George Mann on 19 and Judith M on 17. The top teams were Bruce and Sarah Hayward, Maura and Phil Parsons and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe who all scored 19, just ahead of Our Peter and Jackie on 18. Here is this week’s quiz. 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 chairman of the Grenfell Inquiry, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, said that the deaths of all the people in the fire were avoidable. How many people died?
2. The chairman of the Grenfell Inquiry read out a list of organisations to blame for the fire saying their responsibility was 'in most cases through incompetence but in some cases through __ and __,’ What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
3. The Government announced that what would be immediately scrapped from Ofsted inspections of schools in England?
4. Former Cabinet minister Priti Patel was the first to be knocked out of the Conservative leadership contest, receiving how many votes from Tory MPs?
5. Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch said her party needed to 'stop acting' like what in order win back power?
6. Tory leadership hopeful James Cleverly gave a speech at the Old War office in London, in which he said he would use his contacts and reputation to 'resurrect that incredibly important partnership’ with who?
7. After Oasis fans complained about how tickets for the band's reunion tour were advertised, the Government said it would look into the use of ‘__ pricing’. What is the missing word?
8. Oasis announced they would play concerts next summer at Manchester's Heaton Park, London's Wembley Stadium and in which other three cities? Half point for two, one point for all three.
9. Children and a pregnant woman were among how many people who died after a boat carrying migrants sank off the French coast?
10. Ministers were reported to be considering sending UK prisoners to which country in an attempt to tackle the jail overcrowding crisis?
11. What is the name of the EU's former chief Brexit negotiator who President Emmanuel Macron named as the new French Prime Minister?
12. The Crime Survey for England and Wales reported a massive rise in what crime with 78,000 incidents up to March 2024, more than double the 31,000 in the same period to March 2023?
13. Israel said it had recovered the bodies of how many hostages, found in a tunnel in southern Gaza?
14. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu posted a thread on social media describing the British Government’s decision to do what as ’shameful’?
15. An unmarked mass grave containing the remains of 145 stillborn infants, 128 young children and 29 adults was discovered in a cemetery in which English town?
16. Which country’s anti-immigration party, AfD, celebrated a 'historic success’, giving the Far Right its first win in a state parliament election since World War Two?
17. A 14-year-old boy appeared in court charged with murder after an 80-year-old dog walker was allegedly kicked to death in Franklin Park, near which English city?
18. Dominique Pélicot, 71, and 50 other men are on trial in the French city of Avignon charged with what?
19. How old is the suspect who was arrested after two teachers and two pupils were shot dead and nine other people were injured at a high school in Georgia?
20. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was filmed dancing with DJ Fisher and which actress and presenter at a club in Ibiza?
21. Who was given a community order and £1,000 fine by Uxbridge magistrates for drunken and disorderly behaviour on a BA plane and threatening to knock a policeman’s teeth out?
22. Explorer and presenter Dwayne Fields, the first black Briton to reach the North Pole, succeeded Bear Grylls in what role?
23. Which guitarist posted on his website that he recently suffered a minor stroke, which left him unable to use his left arm?
24. According to 'a leaked PR proposal’ singer Taylor Swift and footballer Travis Kelce were planning to end their relationship on what date this month?
25. Which British athlete claimed her 19th Paralympic gold medal when she won the women’s cycling road race?

Answers here 

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