Jack wins the newsquiz Champagne

MailOnline trainees Jack Elsom, Harry Howard, Peter Rutzler, Luke Andrews, Milly Vincent, Emer Scully, Jack Newman (with the Champagne), Izzy Nikolic, James Gant and Will Cole

The MailOnline trainees are heading off on their placements after four weeks training in Kensington. In the last week they covered a breaking news story in real time, wrote a personality profile, tackled video headlines, covered a showbiz story and prepared newslists for next week. They also had sessions on video with Lisa Snell, social media with Chris Lawrence and Femail with Siofra Brennan. 

Sports trainee Peter Rutzler had four stories published on the site, including the sports banner. Read them here, here, here and here. Luke Andrews was also published ... his exclusive on an antibiotic found in a sponge in the Atlantic was a top story on the science channel. Read it here.

Izzy Nikolic was caught up in the Tube chaos in west London on Thursday and supplied pictures and video. The story is here. 

We all enjoyed farewell drinks with former trainees and senior staff in the Greyhound last night. I enjoyed the trainees' company over the last four weeks. They are a bright, likeable and funny group who now head off to newspapers and agencies in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Newcastle for the next stage of their training. I will follow their success stories with interest and I wish them well.

The Daily Telegraph trainees in Howden enjoyed two days of social, mobile and viral video filming and editing with Dean Arnett and two days of advanced data journalism with Paul Bradshaw. Today they were back in London where they looked at production skills and tools with Telegraph head of production, Laurie Allsopp, and trauma awareness with Kate Riley. 

We finished the week, as usual, with the newsquiz. This week's top scorers were Jack Newman from the Mail and Lizzie Roberts from the Telegraph, both with an impressive 17. Jack narrowly beat Peter Rutzler, who scored 16.5 points, to claim the Champagne for being top MailOnline scorer over the four weeks. Overall, he just pipped Peter by 1.5 points.

In last week’s quiz the top online scorers didn’t come close to the 19 and 18.5 scored by Jack and Peter. They certainly set the bar high.  

Here’s this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give them a go and see if you can beat Jack and Lizzie’s score of 17.

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1. Who warned that universal credit could hurt Theresa May in the same way the poll tax hurt Margaret Thatcher in 1989 and 1990?

2. What is Jackie Doyle-Price’s new role?

3. Which motorway will be closed through the night until next week for surveys on turning it into a potential lorry park to deal with a no-deal Brexit?

4. What is the name of the investigative website that claimed the second Salisbury spy suspect Alexander Petrov is a military doctor working for Russian intelligence?

5. The Banksy artwork Girl With Balloon, which was shredded as it sold at auction, was given a new name and was granted a certificate by the artist’s authentication body. What is the new name?

6. Princess Eugenie's wedding to Jack Brooksbank took place at Windsor today. What number in line to the throne is the princess?

7. How old are the bride and groom at today’s Royal wedding? Half a point for each.

8. Which cake and coffee shop chain faces liquidation unless it pays its £1 million-plus tax bill?

9. A Soyuz space capsule heading to join the ISS had to be aborted shortly after take off. In which country did it land?

10. How did 23-year-old British backpacker Harry Evans die?

11. Journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing, believed murdered, in the Saudi consulate in which city? 

12. Investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova was murdered in a park this week. In which country? 

13. Ray Galton, who died aged 88, created sitcoms with partner Alan Simpson. One, about a father and son who lived together, ran on the BBC from 1962 to 1974. What was it called?

14. Model and TV personality Katie Price was held overnight at which police station after crashing her pink Range Rover?

15. Which tennis player donned wellies to help clean up after flash flooding and tweeted ‘sad day in Majorca’? 

16. Why was 42-year-old Celia Marsh in the news? 

17. Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe, who died this week, famously sang which song at the 1992 Olympics?

18. Kanye West visited the Oval Office, swore and said 'Trump is on his hero’s journey right now’? What did the slogan on West's hat say?

19. One of the few women in Donald Trump’s cabinet, Nikki Haley, resigned this week. What was her position?

20. A one-off test - The Genomic Risk Score - that tells from birth who is most likely to develop heart disease was announced. The scientists who created it said it would sell for less than what price?

21. A horse race advertised on which World Heritage-listed building prompted a backlash over its promotion of gambling?

22. Two runners died after collapsing at the finish line in which city’s half marathon?

23. Twenty people - including newlyweds - were killed when a limousine crashed in which American state?

24. He sacked 15 managers - a record that earned him the nickname ‘Deadly'. Who is he?

25. Seann Walsh’s girlfriend Rebecca Humphries reacted to his smooch with his Strictly Come Dancing partner in a letter on Twitter which ended saying she was not sorry she took what?

Answers here