Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 23, just ahead of Janet Boyle, Penny Dawson, Robert Rea and Marion Fountayne all on 22, the Rev Leon and Kirsty Lewis on 20 and Jaymes Bryla on 18. The top team was Tim Humphrey and the Globals Newsroom who scored a maximum 25. Well done to them. The FOC away day scored 23, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 22 and the Broad Oak Boozers including Tim, Thom, Craig, Danny, Anna, Dale, George and Taylor scored 21 as did Bruce and Sarah Hayward. 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. 

Tuesday's front pages

1. A data breach contained the personal information 'associated' to how many Afghans who had applied for UK relocation schemes?
2. Who was the Defence Secretary at the time of the data breach who said this week there was no 'cover-up’ just the need to 'protect Afghans who could be at risk’?
3. What was used in the courts to suppress the data breach on Afghans working for Britain so that the media could not report it?
4. Which union voted to suspend Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner over her role in the Birmingham bin strike row?
5. The Office for National Statistics announced that UK inflation, driven by fuel and food prices, rose last month to what per cent?
6. The Government announced plans to allow 16-year-olds to vote in the next General Election. Apart from not being allowed to vote, which one of these can 16-year-olds not do in the UK?

a) Order wine or beer with a restaurant meal b) Consent to sex c) Get a tattoo d) Change name by deed poll
7. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband acknowledged a report by which office was a 'stark warning’ which put the 'British way of life under threat'?
8. In a speech to City bosses at Mansion House, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said what was a 'boot on the neck' of businesses and risked 'choking off’ innovation?
9. What linked Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Rachael Maskell this week?
10. US President Donald Trump shrugged off the fact he will not be able to do what during his three-day state visit in September?
11. Hundreds of veterans, joined by MPs including Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Mark Francois, marched outside Parliament to protest against the repeal of which Act?
12. Two men who felled the Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian’s Wall were each jailed for how long?
13. Doctors in Newcastle announced the pioneering births of how many babies with the DNA from three people, which would protect them from inheriting genetic disorders?
14. MasterChef presenter John Torode was sacked by the BBC after an allegation that he used 'an extremely offensive racist term’ while singing a song by which artist?
15. In recovered cockpit voice recordings from the Air India plane crash, which killed 260 people, one of the pilots can be heard asking the other why he had done what?
16. Four people died when a medical transport plane crashed at which UK airport?
17. Courtney Wright, 12, was prevented from giving a speech at a culture day celebration at Bilton School in Rugby, while wearing what?
18. What was 56-year-old stuntman Felix Baumgartner doing when he died?
19. Which car company announced it was to cut up to 500 management jobs in the UK, as it was facing pressure on profits from US tariffs?
20. The Duke of Sussex followed in the footsteps of his mother, Princess Diana, as he visited a charity clearing landmines in which country?
21. Which two Harry Potter actresses were banned from driving for speeding when they appeared at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on the same day? Half a point for each.
22. Which football team beat European champions Paris St-Germain 3-0 to win the Club World Cup?
23. Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek became the first women’s Wimbledon champion since 1911 to do what?
24. England beat Sweden in the quarter finals of the Women's Euros in a dramatic shootout in which how many of the 14 penalties were missed or saved?
25. Chief executive Andy Byron was seen awkwardly jumping out of the arms of a woman as they flashed up on a 'kiss cam' during a performance by which band in Boston?

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Have a crack at the newsquiz

Anjola and Matthew at the i offices

I spent the week working with two young journalists at The i Paper in London. Anjola Fashawe and Matthew Bailey spent the week writing stories, intros and pitching ideas to the newsdesk. They start in the newsroom on Monday. We finished the week with the newsquiz with Matthew collecting a scratchcard for the highest score. The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 23, ahead of Robert Rea and George Mann on 21, ahead of the Rev Leon on 20, Andy Reed and Tim Humphrey on 19, Adam Batstone on 17 and Ted Ditchburn on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with Alexandra, Libby and Will who scored 22, ahead of the Smith Posse (Carole, Trev, David, Gilly, Oliver, Annabel and Tom) on 20, the Broad Oak Boozers Thom, Craig, George and Tim on 19, Lucy Thorpe and the Rincón Massive in Spain on 18 and Nicky and Les on 16. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the last seven days. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

A selection of Wednesday's front pages

1. Addressing MPs from the Royal Gallery in parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron said France and the UK had a shared responsibility to address what 'with humanity, solidarity and fairness'?
2. What is to be returned to the UK for the first time in more than 900 years as part of a loan agreement between Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron?
3. Who said they planned to strike from July 25 for five days as part of demands to secure a 29 per cent pay rise? 
4. Which one of these statements about former Tory Party chairman Norman Tebbit, who died aged 94, is not true? a) He was a FT journalist b) He needed plastic surgery after the Brighton bomb c) He was a pilot d) He wrote a vegetarian cookery book

5. Which former chairman of the Conservative Party said: 'If you were deliberately trying to wreck the country, you'd be hard pressed to do a better job than the last two decades of Labour and Tory rule’?
6. Ofcom gave Royal Mail the go-ahead to make what change to its service to help cut costs?
7. Chancellor Rachel Reeves called the latest figures on the economy ‘disappointing' after the GDP shrank unexpectedly by 0.1 per cent in May? What does GDP stand for?
8. According to the findings from a public inquiry, how many people may have killed themselves as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal?
9. A report by the Intelligence and Security Committee said there had been 15 murder or kidnap attempts against British citizens by which country’s intelligence service since the beginning of 2022?
10. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump he would nominate him for what as the two leaders met in Washington?
11. The names of how many people, all those killed in London's 7/7 bombings, were read out at a memorial service at St Paul's Cathedral on the 20th anniversary of the attacks?
12. More than 100 people were killed and at least 160 are still missing after which Texan river rose 26 feet in 45 minutes?
13. Thomas Partey, who was charged with five counts of rape and one of sexual assault, had his contract with which football club terminated?
14. Gregg Wallace was fired from MasterChef after BBC News said that more than how many people had come forward with fresh claims?
15. Elon Musk posted on X that he had set up a new political party with what name to challenge the Republican and Democratic 'Uniparty'?
16. Police officer Lydia Ward told a jury she was 'absolutely terrified' after she was floored with a punch to the face and had her nose broken as she tried to arrest an assault suspect at which airport?
17. Erin Patterson, 50, was found guilty of murdering three relatives and attempting to kill another by serving what dish containing death cap mushrooms at her home in Australia?
18. Christian Horner 'broke down' during his goodbye speech to the staff of which F1 team after 20 years in charge?
19. Which European city closed its airport and suspended train services after a wildfire on the outskirts forced 400 people to be evacuated and left 100 injured?
20. The country's first hosepipe ban of the year, with fines of up to £1,000, was introduced today (Friday) by which county’s water authority?
21. Raynor Winn, the author of which best-selling memoir which was made into a film, said a report in The Observer which disputed some of the key facts was 'highly misleading’?

22. Which original fashion accessory, made for singer Jane Birkin in 1985, was sold for €8.6m (£7.4m; $10.1m) at Sotheby’s in Paris?
23. After defeat to France, the Lionesses kept their European Championship defence alive when they beat the Netherlands by what score?
24. Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool made history by becoming the first Britons to do what? 
25. Black Sabbath featuring Ozzy Osbourne went out with a bang at which stadium in what the band said would be their final gig?

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Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim Humphrey with 22, ahead of Robert Rea and the Rev Leon on 21, George Mann and Janet Boyle on 20, Marion Fountayne on 19 and Nick Turner on 18. The top team was the Barnard Castle FOC of Bill, Carole, Sue and Trevor who scored 22, ahead of Peter and Stacey with 20 and Our Peter, Jackie, Sarah and Joe on 17. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual here are 25 questions about the last seven days. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. Liverpool forward Diogo Jota, who died with his brother in a car accident in Spain, had 49 caps for which country?
2. Among the Anfield tributes to Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident, were balloons with which number on them?
3. According to senior ministers, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was crying at PMQs on Wednesday because she had an altercation with who?
4. Talking of her tears at PMQs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: ‘When I'm having a __ day, it's on the telly and most people don't have to deal with that.’ What is the missing word?
5. The Government announced a ten-year plan to change the National Health Service with the launch of a new NHS. What does the N stand for in the relaunched service?
6. Suspended MP Zarah Sultana announced she was resigning from Labour to start a new party with who?
7. MPs voted for changes to the welfare system, after the Government offered concessions to Labour rebels, by a majority of how many?
8. Conservative MP George Freeman referred himself to the standards commissioner after it was claimed he did what?
9. BBC director general Tim Davie faced questions over why live footage from Glastonbury of which duo, chanting for the death of Israeli soldiers, was not pulled?
10. MPs voted, by 385 votes to 26, to proscribe which group as a terrorist organisation?
11. A seven-year-old girl died and a six-year-old was seriously hurt after a tree collapsed in a park in which English city?
12. Research by employment website Adzuna said entry-level jobs had fallen by a third in three years and suggested what was to blame?
13. American rapper and producer Sean ‘Diddy' Combs was denied bail despite being found not guilty of racketeering and what other offence?
14. Why did EasyJet cancel 274 flights and Ryanair 170 flights this week?
15. Three managers at the Countess of Chester hospital, where jailed nurse Lucy Letby worked, were arrested on suspicion of what?
16. The US Senate narrowly passed Donald Trump's One __ __ Bill on tax and spending? What are the two missing words?
17. In a post on Truth Social, US President Donald Trump said Israel has agreed to the 'necessary conditions' to finalise a ceasefire in Gaza for how many days?
18. As part of King Charles’s drive to modernise the monarchy and reduce costs, what is to be decommissioned in 2027?
19. What was the name of the veteran broadcaster, who died aged 97, who was foreign correspondent for ITN and presenter of News at Ten?
20. How old is Ryland Headley who was sentenced to life for the rape and murder of 75-year-old woman at her Bristol home in June 1967?

21. How were two female tourists from the UK and New Zealand killed in Zambia?
22. According to Royal Mail, its staff members were subjected to almost 2,200 what in the UK last year?
23. Lottery bosses in which country sent a message apologising to tens of thousands of players who were wrongly told they had won large sums of money?
24. Norway’s footballers beat which country, the hosts, in the opening game of the women's Euros?
25. Thousands of Oasis fans arrived in which city to watch the band reunite on stage for the first time in 16 years?

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