Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were the Rev Leon and Robert Rea both on 20, just ahead of George Mann, Janet Boyle, Marion Fountayne and Kirsty Lewis on 19 and Phil Lambell on 18. The top teams were the Hay Festival team of Phil and Maura Parsons, Sue Milton and Jane and Mike Barring with 22, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 21, Neil and Jo Benson on 20, King’s Head drinkers Peter, Stacey, Heather and Les on 18 and the FOC of Carole, Trevor, Peter, Jackie and Bill on 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. Prime Minister Keir Starmer set out the Government's defence strategy including building 12 what as part of the Aukus programme in partnership with Australia and the United States?
2. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the defence strategy in a speech at which 'legendary' location?
3. The Government announced changes on who will be able to claim free school meals in England from September 2026 and said the change would make how many more pupils eligible?
4. In a spectacular falling out, X-owner Elon Musk suggested that US President Donald Trump appeared in unreleased files related to who?
5. Zia Yusuf resigned from what role say it was no longer 'a good use of my time’?
6. Davy Russell became a Labour MSP after a surprise by-election victory in which constituency?
7. The Government announced that six water companies would be banned from doing what if they did not meet environmental standards, were not financially resilient or had been convicted of an offence?
8. What reached more than 1,100 for the first time this year on Saturday - a figure that Defence Secretary John Healey described as 'shocking'?
9. Attorney General Richard Hermer apologised for comparing Conservative and Reform calls to quit the European Convention of Human Rights to what?
10. Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was awarded how much in damages, in euros, over a BBC story saying he had sanctioned the murder of a British agent? 
11. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said that builders would be required to fit what to the 'vast majority' of new build homes in England?
12. Ukraine said it completed its biggest long-range attack of the war with 117 drones used in an operation, known by what name, that struck '34 per cent of Russia's strategic cruise missile carriers’?
13. US President Donald Trump announced a travel ban for 12 countries from Monday (June 9). Which one of these countries was not on his list? a) Libya b) Somalia c) Vietnam d) Sudan
14. France's interior ministry said that what event had led to two people being killed, 192 injured, 559 arrested, including 491 in Paris, and 264 vehicles set on fire?
15. Hamit Coskun, 50, was found guilty after doing what outside the Turkish consulate in London?
16. German police officers scoured more than 20 plots of land using underground radar equipment looking for what?
17. Mohamed Sabry Soliman was arrested in Boulder, Colorado, after injuring six people by throwing what at a pro-Israel demonstration?
18. Actress Loretta Swit, who died aged 87, won two Emmy awards for her role as Margaret __ __ Houlihan in the comedy TV series M*A*S*H. What is the missing nickname?

19. It was widely reported, after an exclusive by The Sun, that which 50-year-old will be awarded a knighthood next week as part of King Charles’s birthday celebrations?

20. Who made a video of himself confronting fare evaders on the London Underground which he said he hoped would 'shame people into action’?
21. After a deal with Shamrock Holdings who announced on her website: 'All the music I've ever made now belongs to me’?
22. The Duchess of Sussex posted a video on Instagram saying: 'Both of our children were a week past their due dates… so when spicy food, all that walking, and acupuncture didn't work - there was only one thing left to do!’ What did she do?
23. What did Harry Moulding, 34, from Blackpool win?
24. Which programme swept the boards at the British Soap Awards collecting eight of the 14 awards, including Best British Soap?
25. In the series finale of Dr Who, Ncuti Gatwa regenerated into which actress?

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