The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

Last week's newsquiz was clearly a tough one with the scores well below average. The top solo scorers were Dominic Hurst and Liz Gerard with 12, narrowly ahead of Gavin Devine and Toby Brown both on 11.5. The top team was Elly Rewcastle with help from Michelle who scored 16. Team Penman scored 13.5 and the Batstone Collective got 13. Here's this week's quiz which, I think, might be a little easier. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Let me know how you get on.  

The Daily Telegraph reports on football's record signing at £198 (Questions  10 and 11)

1. Liam Fox said there was no cabinet-wide agreement for the suggestion by chancellor Philip Hammond that free movement could continue for up to three years after Brexit. What is Fox’s cabinet position?

2. The pound fell to its lowest point this year against the euro in reaction to the Bank of England leaving interest rates unchanged. What is the interest rate?

3. He has undertaken 22,219 solo engagements, given 5,496 speeches and 785 organisations have him as patron, president or member. Who is he?

4. The three-month battle which started on July 31 and ended on November 6 1917 in northern Belgium was officially known as the Third Battle of Ypres. How is it more commonly known?

5. Anthony Scaramucci (the Mooch) was fired by President Trump, giving him the record of the shortest tenure as communications director. How many days did he have in the White House?

6. Why was Peter Settelen in the headlines? 

7. What is the name of the 79-storey skyscraper in Dubai that went up in flames for the second time in two years?

8. Commenting on the chaos at European airports what did Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary describe as ‘somewhat pointless’?

9. Brazilian footballer Neymar completed his world-record £198million transfer to Paris Saint-Germain from Barcelona. What number shirt will he wear at his new club?

10. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger described the transfer of Neymar as beyond _____ and beyond _____.’ What are the two missing words. Half a point each.

11. Which organisation sacked its executive chairman Bob Mackenzie for a 'personal conduct-related matter’?

12. Why was former Royal Marine Ciaran Maxwell jailed for 18 years?

13. Moeen Ali became only the fourth man in history - and the first for 60 years - to do what?

14. He was a TV favourite as James Shelley and later played Jack Dalton in Eastenders. Who is he?

15. A Norwegian anti-immigrant group was ridiculed on social media after members apparently mistook a photograph of what for women wearing burqas?

16. Two people were killed when a light plane did an emergency landing on a beach in which country?

17. Jihadis Naweed Ali, Khobaib Hussain and Mohibur Rahman were each sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning a 'mass casualty attack’. What literary name did they use to describe themselves in group messages?

18. Why were seven trainee priests asked to leave the City Arms pub in Cardiff?

19. England women’s footballers suffered semi-final heartbreak in Euro 2017 after they were beaten 3-0 by which country?

20. Highways Agency officials are studying a Dutch scheme to turn polluted sections of motorways into what?

21. Robert Hardy, who died aged 91, claimed he held the world record for playing which person in 12 different television, film and stage productions?

22. More than 60 army cadets had to be rescued from which mountains?

23. Facebook shut down a pair of its artificial intelligence robots after they invented what?

24. What will Jessica Ennis-Hill be presented with at special ceremony at the World Championships on Sunday evening?

25. Sinitta, John Leslie and The Human Ken Doll all pulled out of what?

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