Trainee Joe wins the newsquiz again

The Daily Mail trainee reporters had a busy second week in Kensington. They went through the Editor’s Code with Editor Emeritus Peter Wright, Ailsa Leslie explained how Mail+ works and assistant managing editor Mary Omogbehin cast light on practical matters such as rotas, holidays and pensions. The trainees pitched story ideas to deputy news-editor Elly Blake, assistant Femail editor Elmira Tanatarova and deputy travel editor Ben Parker. Today they had lively safety awareness training from Charlie McGrath and Grant Wootton. The trainees wrote stories and headlines, including a banner and a personality profile. Isabella Machin won a scratchcard for the best headline of the week. We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz … 25 questions about the last seven days. It is clearly a tough one this week with the scores well below average. The winner with 14.5 was last week's top scorer Joe Rossiter, just head of Isabella with 14. The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim (still totally unremarkable) with 24, ahead of Janet Boyle on 22, George Mann on 21, Joe Rossiter on 20.5, Robert Rea on 19, Isabella Machin on 18.5, the Rev Leon and Carson Black on 18 and Adam Batstone, Jamie Boys and Daisy Outram on 16. The top team was Tim Humphrey and GlobalsNewsroom who scored 24. The Barnard Castle FOC of Our Peter, Jackie, Sam, Bill, Sue and Ben scored 22, Nick Turner and Mark Walton and Maura and Phil Parsons 20, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 19 and the Broad Oak Boozers including Craig, Danny, Thom and Tim 16. Give it a go and see if you can beat Joe’s score.

The Manchester attack dominates today's front pages

1. What is the name of the Manchester synagogue where two people were killed in a terror attack on Yom Kippur?

2. What is the name of the rabbi who saved lives by blocking doors in the Manchester synagogue attack?

3. At the Labour Party conference, Prime Minister Keir Starmer accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of being 'a __ __ salesman'. What are the two missing words?

4. Health Secretary Wes Streeting told the Labour conference in Liverpool that the party 'wanted' and 'needed' who?

5. US President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza, which was accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, listed how many points?

6.  PPE Medro, the company linked to Baroness Mone, has been ordered to pay back how much to the Government for breaching a PPE contract?

7. Thousands of British servicemen and women started legal action claiming they had been given faulty what, which they say led to life-changing injuries?
8. Four people were shot dead by a gunman who attacked what building in Michigan?

9. Which country imposed a complete shutdown of the internet and phones, cutting it off from the rest of the world?

10. Which company agreed to pay $24.5million (£18.6million) to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump for suspending him after the 2021 attacks on US Capitol?
11. Author JK Rowling shared a post on X, saying actress Emma Watson 'has so little experience of real life she’s __ of how __ she is.’ What is the missing word?

12. Who made a surprise visit to Ukraine to 'highlight the traumatic experiences of children living on the frontline of the conflict’?
13. Pete Hegseth, America’s Secretary of the Department of War, said he was tired of seeing what kind of generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon? 
14. Soldiers from which country boarded an oil tanker believed to be part of Russia's 'shadow fleet'?

15. Amber and yellow warnings were extended to cover England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as a storm with what name heads to Britain this weekend?

16. Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the first woman in which position?

17. Dame Patricia Routledge, who died aged 96, was best known as what character in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances? 

18. Dr Jane Goodall, who died aged 91, devoted her life to the study and conservation of what?

19. The Red Roses celebrated their rugby World Cup win with a party and parade at which London venue?

20. The Prince of Wales said that, in order to create ‘a healthy, happy and stable home’, his children were not allowed what?

21. Actress Nicole Kidman filed for divorce from her Grammy-winning country singer husband after 19 years. What is his name?
22. Who did Prince William tell ‘I just want to give you a good wash’ when he knighted him at Windsor Castle?
23. Erica Stoll behaved with ‘class and dignity’ when she had beer thrown over her at what event?

24. Why has Tilly Norwood been in the headlines?
25. Taylor Swift released her 12th studio album The Life Of A Showgirl which features which US pop star on the title song, the only collaboration on the record?

Answers here