Friday, 18 July 2025

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 2011 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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