Friday, 26 December 2025

The Boxing Day newsquiz

I hope you all had a cracking Christmas. The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 23, ahead of George Mann on 22, Robert Rea on 21 and Damon Wake with 20. The top team was the Broad Oak Boozers of Danny, Thom and Tim on 20, ahead of Rory Benson and Emily and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 17. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Why not pour yourself a glass of Boxing Day fizz, give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. King Charles's Christmas message called on communities to pull together in an increasingly divided world and urged people to 'get to know' who?
2. The King also used his Christmas address to urge people to adopt what kind of detox over the festive season and focus on family and friends?
3. Government proposals to tax inherited farmland were watered down with the threshold increasing from £1million to how much?
4. Former Tory councillor Philip Young, 48, and five other men appeared at Swindon magistrates’ court, charged with how many sexual offences against his former wife over a 13-year period?
5. A major incident was declared after what happened in Whitchurch, Shropshire?
6. The latest Epstein files released this week included an email sent from ‘A', saying they were at Balmoral and asking Ghislaine Maxwell for '__ friends'. What is the missing word?
7. Two men went missing, presumed dead, after a Christmas Day wild swim at a resort in which county?
8. As part of Government’s Animal Welfare Strategy what, which is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand, is to be banned in UK restaurants?
9. Four Palestine Action remand prisoners resolved to continue to do what, after four others stopped?
10. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were found guilty of planning what police said could 'potentially have been the deadliest terrorist attack in UK history’ in which city?
11. Office for National Statistics figures showed that police recorded 530,643 offences of what type in the UK in a year - the equivalent of one a minute?
12. Before Christmas the US launched 'a large-scale' strike that hit 70 targets in areas across which country to 'eliminate ISIS fighters, infrastructure and weapons sites’?
13. On Christmas Day the US also launched strikes against militants linked to the Islamic State group in which African country?
14. At an emergency session of the UN Security Council in New York, the ambassador from which country accused the US of ’the greatest extortion’ and said its behaviour was ‘worse than piracy’?
15. US President Donald Trump controversially appointed Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, as the US's special envoy to where?
16. Donald Trump announced plans to build two new 'Trump Class’ what?
17. The director of cricket said there would be an investigation into reports of England cricketers doing what in the beach town of Noosa between the second and third tests?
18. What is the name of the publisher that dropped David Walliams following allegations of his inappropriate behaviour towards women?
19. In his Christmas message Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to wish that Russian President Valdimir Putin would do what?
20. After his fight with boxer Anthony Joshua, YouTuber Jake Paul had to have surgery for a broken what?
21. Which 82-year-old singer announced he would be having surgery for lung cancer but insisted he would keep performing?
22. Footballer John Robertson, who died aged 72, was once described by Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough as 'the __ of our game’. What is the missing name?
23. Which football club paid tribute to singer Chris Rea, who died aged 74, describing him as a local ‘icon'?
24. Who was the first football player to lift the Strictly Come Dancing glitter-ball trophy?
25. Who gained her first UK Christmas No 1, and eighth No 1 single overall, with a song called Xmas?

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