The top team was Our Peter, Jackie, Sam and Anna on 20, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Bruce and Sarah Hayward who all scored 19. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the weeks news. Why not give it a go and let me know your score.
The Pope's funeral dominated Sunday's front pages
1. Reform won the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by how many votes - one of the closest parliamentary elections ever?
2. Which former Greggs worker, Miss UK finalist and junior education minister was elected as the mayor of Greater Lincolnshire?
3. Pope Francis was the first Pope, since Leo XIII in 1903, to be buried outside the Vatican and was instead buried in which church in Rome?
4. US President Donald Trump, Prince William, Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Jordan’s King Abdullah came under scrutiny at the Pope’s funeral for doing what?
5. US President Donald Trump joked that who would be his ’no 1 pick’ for the next Pope?
6. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a three-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine to mark what?
7. Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, died at her farmhouse at a suburb of which city?
8. A cyber-attack on Marks & Spencer was linked to a hacking collective known by what name?
9. Ahead of a Buckingham Palace reception to recognise and celebrate cancer charities, King Charles quoted who, encouraging people to 'always have rebellious hope'?
10. Sergio Aguiar and David Stancombe completed the London marathon to raise money, including a donation from Prince William, in whose memory?
11. Protesters from which activist group were arrested after hurling red paint on Tower Bridge during the London marathon?
12. What did the Football Association, England Netball and the England and Wales Cricket Board all do this week?
13. How was 32-year-old Jade Damarel killed in County Durham?
14. US President Donald Trump removed who from his post as national security advisor, saying he would nominate him as ambassador to the United Nations?
15. A 30-year-old man was charged with murder after a car drove into a crowd at a street festival killing 11 people, including a five-year-old girl, in which city?
16. Who was filmed doing an ‘elbows up’ victory dance?
17. Ten men nicknamed the 'grandpa robbers’ went on trial in Paris charged with stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from who?
18. The wife of former F1 driver Jenson Button had a suitcase with £250,000 worth of jewellery and handbags stolen at which London railway station?
19. Which two countries suffered the worst blackout in memory in Europe with 55 million people affected? Half a point for each.
20. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, went on trial at Newcastle Crown Court accused of embarking on a 'moronic mission’ to do what?
21. What is the name of the rap group who apologised after footage showed one of them saying: 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP’?
22. A new record was set for the hottest start to any May on record yesterday (Thursday) with temperatures reaching how many degrees centigrade in Kew Gardens in London?
23. Liverpool were crowned Premier League champions, drawing level with Manchester United as the teams who have won the English top flight table the most times. How many?
24. The Prince and Princess of Wales spent their 14th wedding anniversary on which island?
25. Who said he was ‘blown away’ after defying the odds to win Celebrity Big Brother?
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