Test your news knowledge with this week's quiz

Global perspective on Trump's victory

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle and George Mann with 22, just ahead of Kirsty Lewis and Robert Rea on 19. The top team was George Fleet and the Wingfields with 22, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 21, Tony and Christine Smith on 20, Maura and Phil Parsons on 19.5 and Our Peter, Jackie, Sarah and Joe on 17. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. It was a big one with the US elections and the Tory leadership vote so hopefully you have been all over the news and big scores are imminent. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

Some more election front pages

1. Which one of these did Donald Trump not achieve when he became America’s 47th president? a) oldest person ever elected to the office  b) first convicted criminal to win the White House c) the first president to be re-elected after a four-year gap d) only President to have faced impeachment proceedings twice.

2. President-elect Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC, dismissed concerns about the cost of his plan to do what, saying: ‘It's not a question of a price tag. It's not - really, we have no choice’? 
3. Who was Donald Trump referring to in his victory speech when he said: 'He's an amazing guy. He's a character, he's a special guy, he's a super genius’?
4. Which of these did not appear at one of Kamala Harris’s Vote for Freedom rallies in the run up to the election? a) Ricky Martin b) Lady Gaga c) Christina Aguilera  d) Kid Rock.

5. Which newsreader apologised after she was ticked off by her co-anchor for using the word batshit during the live coverage of the US election? 
6. In an interview in 2017, uncovered by the Daily Beast, who said: 'I was Donald’s closest friend for ten years’?
7. How did Democrat Sarah McBride make history when elected as Delaware's member of Congress?
8. Kemi Badenoch defeated Robert Jenrick to become Conservative Party leader after winning what percentage of the 95,000 votes?
9. What role did Robert Jenrick accept in Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet?
10. Who did new Tory leader Kemi Badenoch appoint as shadow chancellor?
11. Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to use counter-terrorism tactics to stop people-smuggling gangs as he announced an extra how much in funds to police the UK's borders?

12. What is to rise to £9,535 a year after being frozen since 2017?

13. Which businessman and farm owner described last week’s Budget as ’spiteful’, saying: 'No business can survive Reeves’s 20 per cent tax grab. It will be the death of entrepreneurship’?
14. The Bank of England cut interest rates to what per cent to 'ease the pressure on households and businesses from high borrowing costs’?
15. Israel sent rescue planes to which city after Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans were 'ambushed and attacked’, leaving ten in hospital?

16. Which car manufacturer announced it will cut 9,000 jobs from its global workforce as part of 'urgent measures' to stem losses?
17. What was the name of Conservative grandee, who died aged 92, who was best-known as Margaret Thatcher's defence secretary during the Falklands war?
18. Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg pleaded guilty at Selkirk Sheriff Court to what charge?
19. GP Thomas Kwan was sentenced to how many years in prison at Newcastle Crown Court after being found guilty of trying to murder his mother's partner with a fake Covid vaccine?
20. Comedian Janey Godley, who died aged 63, went viral during the Covid-19 pandemic when she offered a sweary version of daily briefings by who? 
21. Who was pelted with mud on a visit to the Spanish town of Paiporta?
22. Musician and producer Quincy Jones, who died aged 91, gathered 46 singers, including Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and Cyndi Lauper to record what song for Ethiopia’s famine victims in 1985 that became a Number 1 in the US and UK?
23. Ruben Amorim is to join Manchester United as manager from which European club?
24. Cans containing what went on sale at the Italian beauty spot of Como for €10?
25. The Prince of Wales was in Cape Town to celebrated this year's winners of his environmental awards that are called what?

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Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Oliver Jervis with 21, just ahead of Janet Boyle on 20, the Rev Leon on 18 and Amelia Perry and David Banks both on 17. The top team was King’s Head drinkers Peter, Stacey, Nicky and Les with 20, just ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 16 and the Broad Oak Boozers on 15. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

The Budget front pages

1. In the Budget Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the lower rate of what tax would be raised from 10 per cent to 18 per cent and the higher rate from 20 per cent to 24 per cent?
2. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced an extra £22.6bn for the day-to-day spending and a £3.1bn increase for the capital budget for this year and next for what institution?
3. The minimum wage for over 21s, known as the National Living Wage, will rise from £11.44 to how much from April 2025?
4. Announcing a rise in tax on flights, Chancellor Rachel Reeves poked fun at leader of the opposition Rishi Sunak saying: 'That is equivalent to £450 per passenger for a private jet to, say ...’ Where did she mention?
5. Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt, announcing he was standing down from the shadow cabinet, said: ‘Hopefully I'll be a slightly better __. That's top of the list.’ What is the missing word?
6. Which politician said she would tone down her approach – after some colleagues suggested she could be rude?
7. CCTV footage appeared to show Labour MP Mike Amesbury punching a constituent after a row over winter fuel payments and the closure of what?
8. Far-right activist Tommy Robinson was jailed for how many months for contempt of court for repeating false allegations against a Syrian refugee?
9. Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond was laid to rest following a private funeral near his Aberdeenshire home in which village?
10. According to the Office for National Statistics the number of what in England and Wales is at its lowest since 1977? 
11. At least 155 people were killed when flash floods struck which Spanish province?

12. The US Republicans were criticised after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe told a Madison Square Garden rally: 'There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called __ __.’ What is the missing country?
13. Which former Republican governor announced he was backing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, saying 'I will always be an American before I am a Republican’?
14. US President Joe Biden called on which country's government to respond to international concern at the scale of violations in its election last weekend?
15. A man died and at least 30 more were injured after a truck drove into what near an Israeli military base north of Tel Aviv?
16. GB News was fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaking impartiality rules over a programme which gave who a 'mostly uncontested platform’?
17. Safety zones outside all of what places in England and Wales came into force yesterday (Thursday)?
18. According to police figures supplied to the NSPCC, which app is the most widely-used platform for online grooming?
19. Southport stabbings suspect Axel Rudakubana appeared by video link at Westminster magistrates' court to face extra charges after what two items were allegedly found in a search of his home? Half a point for each.
20. Police arrested a 63-year-old man after 22 tons of what, worth £300,000, was stolen from a London yard?
21. What is the name of the dancer who was taken to hospital after collapsing backstage during Saturday night's Strictly Come Dancing?
22. Who posted on social media that masked raiders had burgled his home, while his wife and two children were there, and taken irreplaceable items?
23. Manchester United sacked manager Erik ten Hag after a 2-1 defeat by which team left them 14th in the Premier League.
24. Which European football club boycotted the Ballon d'Or ceremony in Paris, saying their representatives would not go where they were 'not respected?
25. What old word, with the new meaning of 'someone with a confident, independent and hedonistic attitude’, was named Collins Dictionary word of the year?

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