Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann on 18.5, just ahead of Carson Black on 18, Miranda Crawford on 17.5 and Emma Gatrell on 16.5. The top team was Oli, Vic, George and Rex who scored 21, just ahead of the Barnard Castle FOC of Bill, Trev, Carole, Our Peter and Jackie on 20.5, the Smith family on 20 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 15. 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 how you get on.

Today's front pages

1. In his first Budget Chancellor John Healey said: 'I know that people look to Government at times like this, not to solve all their problems, but to give them a bit of __ __'. What is the missing phrase which he repeated throughout his speech?
2. In the Budget Chancellor John Healey said 20 million households in council tax bands A-D in England would receive a 'household energy payment’ of how much?
3. Chancellor John Healey announced that from January which businesses will pay an extra three per cent surcharge on profits, which will be 'time-limited’ to 15 months.
4. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said she was ‘amazed’ that Prime Minister Andy Burnham had the time to do what?
5. Who announced plans to strike on November 25 and 26, saying the Government had failed to offer any meaningful commitment to solving the long-running dispute?
6. King Charles’s Caribbean tour will end next week after the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in which country?
7. How was a 60-year-old man killed in the Scottish town of Castle Douglas and a 20-year-old man killed in North London?
8. Which retail chain, that employs around 12,000 people and has 600 stores, has filed notice to appoint administrators?
9. What is the name of Google's parent company which suffered its worst-ever day on the US stock market, knocking around half a trillion dollars off its value?
10. At least 69 people were killed when a train travelling from Madrid to which city crashed into a stationary train?
11. Thomas Markle, the father of the Duchess of Sussex, was being investigated for possible sex offences in which country?
12. Luxury cruise ship MV Odyssey suspended its three-year round-the-world trip, in which country, due to rising fuel costs?
13. Singer Chris Brown was sentenced to how long in prison, suspended for a year, for hitting a music producer with a bottle in a London nightclub?
14. What is the name of the cryptocurrency giant that suffered a $6.3billion (£4.7bn) hack of its digital assets?
15. Comedian Russell Brand told his rape and sexual assault trial that he couldn't persuade a single person to do what?
16. CCTV footage of a crew member using what to fend off a knifeman on a Doncaster to London King's Cross train was shown at Cambridge Crown Court?
17. Political activist Tommy Robinson was convicted at Southwark Crown Court of harassing two journalists from which newspaper?
18. Which country’s president won a fourth term in office despite losing the first round of voting?
19. Patrick Stewart, who died aged 86, played which character in more than 170 episodes of the Star Trek series and in four feature films?
20. Whose guitar was sold for £180,000 at auction?
21. Harry Kane collected the Ballon d'Or to become the fifth English footballer to collect the award. Who is the only English player to win it twice?
22. Footballer Alexia Putellas, who plays for which country, won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a record-equalling third time?
23. Which League Two football team knocked Arsenal out of the Carabao Cup on penalties?
24. The NFL announced that who will perform at the Super Bowl half-time show in February?
25. James Acaster confessed to being a Celebrity Traitor after who pointed at him at the round table and accused him of murdering Ross Kemp in plain sight?

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