The top team was Tim Humphrey and Global's Newsroom with 23, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 20, The Broad Oak Boozers of Tim, Craig, George, Danny and Thom on 19 and Our Peter and Jackie and Nick Turner and Georgia Harland on 18. 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. Have a great festive break but don't forget the newsquiz will still go up on Friday (Boxing Day) so don’t miss it.
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1. Following the Bondi Beach shootings, Naveed Akram was charged with 59 offences, including how many murders?
2. What was the first name of the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach shootings?
3. While recovering in hospital Ahmed Al-Ahmed, who disarmed a gunman during the Bondi Beach attacks, was given a cheque for how many Australian dollars?
4. Australian police are investigating a trip taken by the Bondi Beach gunmen to which country for military-style training last month?
5. After the Bondi beach attack, police in London and Manchester pledged to arrest anyone chanting the slogan ‘globalise the __’. What is the missing word?
6. Paul Doyle was jailed for how many years for ploughing his car into 134 Liverpool football fans?
7. Rob Reiner, who died aged 78, made his debut as a director, with which 1984 mockumentary that followed the fortunes of a heavy metal band?
8. US President Donald Trump came under fire after blaming the death of Hollywood director Rob Reiner on an 'incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as __ Derangement Syndrome’. What is the missing word?
9. US President Donald Trump described the release of what as ’no big deal’?
10. Two students were killed and nine injured in a shooting at which university in Providence, Rhode Island?
11. Interest rates were cut to what per cent, the lowest level in almost three years?
12. More than 30 people were treated for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in which store in Charlton, London?
13. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told MPs that who must pay £2.5billion to Ukraine or face court action?
14. NHS data showed what percentage of births in the UK were now by C-section, the highest ever?
15. The Duke of Marlborough, a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, was charged with three counts of intentional what?
16. A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death a nine-year-old girl at a house in which English town?
17. Who said that a health check, to get insurance for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, revealed he had prostate cancer?
18. Richard Davies and Faye Stevenson-Davies from Wales beat the odds of 24-trillion-to-one to do what?
19. After an outcry over pricing, FIFA announced more affordable tickets for next year's World Cup with a limited number on offer as part of a 'Supporter Entry Tier’ at how much (in British pounds)?
20. Who landed a job with OpenAI to lead the ChatGPT developer’s relationships with governments around the world?
21 Warner Brothers asked shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s £81billion takeover offer, preferring a rival bid by which company?
22. England were denied a crucial Australian wicket in the Ashes because of an error by technology called what?
23. Which Scottish football team beat Celtic to win the Premier Sports Cup for only the second time in the club's 148-year history?
4. Australian police are investigating a trip taken by the Bondi Beach gunmen to which country for military-style training last month?
5. After the Bondi beach attack, police in London and Manchester pledged to arrest anyone chanting the slogan ‘globalise the __’. What is the missing word?
6. Paul Doyle was jailed for how many years for ploughing his car into 134 Liverpool football fans?
7. Rob Reiner, who died aged 78, made his debut as a director, with which 1984 mockumentary that followed the fortunes of a heavy metal band?
8. US President Donald Trump came under fire after blaming the death of Hollywood director Rob Reiner on an 'incurable affliction with a mind-crippling disease known as __ Derangement Syndrome’. What is the missing word?
9. US President Donald Trump described the release of what as ’no big deal’?
10. Two students were killed and nine injured in a shooting at which university in Providence, Rhode Island?
11. Interest rates were cut to what per cent, the lowest level in almost three years?
12. More than 30 people were treated for suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in which store in Charlton, London?
13. Prime Minister Keir Starmer told MPs that who must pay £2.5billion to Ukraine or face court action?
14. NHS data showed what percentage of births in the UK were now by C-section, the highest ever?
15. The Duke of Marlborough, a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, was charged with three counts of intentional what?
16. A 15-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death a nine-year-old girl at a house in which English town?
17. Who said that a health check, to get insurance for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, revealed he had prostate cancer?
18. Richard Davies and Faye Stevenson-Davies from Wales beat the odds of 24-trillion-to-one to do what?
19. After an outcry over pricing, FIFA announced more affordable tickets for next year's World Cup with a limited number on offer as part of a 'Supporter Entry Tier’ at how much (in British pounds)?
20. Who landed a job with OpenAI to lead the ChatGPT developer’s relationships with governments around the world?
21 Warner Brothers asked shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance’s £81billion takeover offer, preferring a rival bid by which company?
22. England were denied a crucial Australian wicket in the Ashes because of an error by technology called what?
23. Which Scottish football team beat Celtic to win the Premier Sports Cup for only the second time in the club's 148-year history?
24. Former Love Island star Laura Crane, 30, from Devon, is waiting to hear if she made it into the record books for riding the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman during the Nazare challenge in which country?
25. Golfer Rory McIlroy was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year but who won the Lifetime Achievement award?Answers here
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