Friday, 9 May 2025

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle and the Rev Leon with a score of 21, ahead of George Mann and Robert Rea on 19 and Tim Humphrey on 18. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 23, ahead of the Barnard Castle FOC including Our Peter, Jackie, Trevor and Carole on 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. King Charles delivered a speech at what time yesterday (Thursday) - the precise moment his grandfather, King George VI, addressed the nation to mark VE Day 80 years ago?
2. The VE concert at Horse Guards Parade ended with which two Vera Lynn songs? Half a point for each.
3. The new Pope, Robert Prevost, the first North American pontiff, is to be known by what name and number?
4. How many Cardinals were in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope?
5. The UK and US agreed a ‘breakthrough’ trade deal which included a reduction of tariffs, from 27.5 per cent t
o 10 per cent, on up to 100,000 what?
6. US President Donald Trump announced, on his Truth Social platform, a 100 per cent tariff on all what that are 'produced in Foreign Lands’?
7. US President Donald Trump said of Americans, who are facing fewer goods in shops: 'They don't need to have 30 __. They can have three. They don't need to have 250 __. They can have five.’ What are the two missing words?
8. The Government said a deal with which country was the 'biggest and most economically significant' trade agreement the UK had signed since leaving the European Union in 2020?
9. After last week’s election results, Red Wall Labour MPs demanded ministers 'act now before it's too late’ and reverse what?
10. Leader of the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, apologised after appearing to describe grooming gangs as a ‘__ __ issue’. What are the two missing words?
11. The Bank of England cut interest rates to what per cent, the lowest since May 2023?
12. Which country launched Operation Sindoor?
13. The Duke of Sussex told the BBC he would love a reconciliation with the Royal Family and that he did 'not know how much __ my father has’? What is the missing word?
14. Who defied the so-called 'incumbency curse' to be re-elected Australia's Prime Minister? 
15. US President Donald Trump said he was directing the Government to reopen which building, saying it would serve as a 'symbol of law, order and justice’?
16. Which building in London was reported to be the target of five Iranian men arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism?
17. How were Shane Richardson, 29, and Owen Jenner, 21, killed?
18. US giant DoorDash agreed to takeover which company for £2.9billion?
19. Which company filed for bankruptcy, saying it had lost business to a new generation of weight loss drugs such as Ozempic?
20. Conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a parliament vote to become Germany's next chancellor after initially falling how many votes short of the majority he needed?
21. Which American R&B singer was accused of rape, sexual battery and false imprisonment in a lawsuit from his former employees? 
22. Which TV personality shared a video on social media from her hospital bed, saying she needed to undergo surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes?
23. What event in Kensington, London, was reportedly shut down at 3.35am on Sunday after a visit by council officers over noise complaints?
24. Which footballer, who joined Liverpool when he was six and spent 20 years there, announced he would be leaving the club at the end of the season?
25. What did singer Rihanna reveal at the Met Gala in New York?

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