Time to tackle this week's newsquiz

The top solo score in last week's newsquiz was 16 by Janet Boyle. The top team score was 19 by the Penmans - with Daisy back from university guaranteeing a top score. Here is this week's quiz. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Grenfell tributes in The Sun and the Evening Standard (Questions 6 and 7)

1. In a vote on a Lords amendment that could have meant staying in the European Economic Area, 15 MPs defied the Labour whip to abstain and voted against. How many defied party instructions and voted for?

2. One frontbencher and five parliamentary aides resigned from the shadow cabinet ahead of the EAA vote. Name any two. Half point for each.

3. Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg warned: 'If you sup with the devil you should use a long spoon and he is using an egg spoon.’ Who was he referring to?

4. How many SNP MPs walked out of Parliament after accusing the Government of a ‘power grab’?

5. At Prime Minister's Questions Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn asked Theresa May if she had asked Donald Trump to do what?

6. How long was the silence at the Grenfell memorial service at St Helen’s Church in Kensington?
7. Grenfell Tower was floodlit in green, the heart badges are green, people at the anniversary memorial service wore green and even the Queen sported a green outfit on Thursday. Why is green the colour of Grenfell?

8. The summit between US president Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un took place on which island off the south coast of Singapore?

9. After his meeting with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump tweeted: 'Thank you to Chairman Kim, our day together was _____!’ What is the missing word?
10. After the G7 Summit who did Donald Trump describe as meek, mild, very dishonest and weak?

11. How many goals did hosts Russia score in the opening game of the World Cup?

12. Which three countries will host the 2026 World Cup?

13. Who will not be allowed to show their support for England by flying flags and putting stickers on their vehicles during the World Cup? 

14. Which firm announced it is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years, with chief executive Warren East saying it needed fewer layers of management?

15. Judge Peter Ross, jailing six men who groomed and sexually abused teenage girls, said sexual abuse had become 'the norm' for them. Which city did all the men live in?

16. What is the name of the ship, run by a French charity, which rescued 629 migrants in the Mediterranean but was turned away by Italy and headed to Spain?

17. Former tennis champion Boris Becker is claiming diplomatic immunity against an attempt to sue him, claiming his appointment as sport and culture attache for which African country gives him protection?

18. Which retailer, with 335 UK stores, appointed administrators, putting 5,100 jobs at risk, after talks with potential buyer R Capital collapsed?

19. Who said in an interview with John Humphrys on Radio 4: 'To be gay in a quite aggressively heterosexual business, a kind of boys club, is certainly not ideal’?

20. The Queen and newly-married Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, took part in their first royal engagement together, opening the Storyhouse Theatre in which city?

21. Which company announced plans to replace champagne and prosecco with non-EU sparkling wines as a part of 'a transition away from products made in the EU'?
22. A pitch invasion and a rendition of Flower of Scotland marked what historic event at the Grange in Edinburgh?

23. Which former MP won best actress at the Tony Awards for her role in Three Tall Women?

24. Niall Aslam, a 23-year-old student, quit what for 'health reasons’?

25. What animal became an online sensation after it spent almost 20 hours scaling a 25-storey office tower in Minnesota?

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