Friday, 5 October 2018

The newsquiz: Can you beat Jack's 19?

Theresa May dances across Thursday's front pages
The MailOnline trainees are going great guns as they head into their final week before their placements. This week they had a day with Amy Marley, the former head of the Mail’s global news gathering team and with Mike Watson who went through Mail style in detail. 
Former trainee Rod Ardehali told them what to expect at the next stage and Natalie Glanvill, from the managing editor’s office, went through the practical stuff. 
There were also media law sessions with the company’s lawyers and a run through the editor’s code and IPSO with Editor Emeritus Peter Wright. They all pitched stories to travel editor Ted Thornhill
Well done to trainee Jack Elsom who brought in a news story which was published. You can read it here


Story by trainee Jack Elsom on MailOnline
Meanwhile The Daily Telegraph trainees covered storyfinding and storytelling skills with Chris van Schaick; production skills, including InDesign and Photoshop, with Chris Gregory and longform, narrative and digital journalism with Giles Wilson. 
We finished the week as usual with the newsquiz. This week’s Mail winner was Jack Newman with a high-scoring 19, narrowly ahead of Peter Rutzler on 18.5. The highest scoring Telegraph trainee was Mason Boycott-Owen. Last week’s highest online scorer was Janet Boyle with 16. The top team was John and Lucy Penman with 16.5, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 15. I was in Seville where my friends scored a reasonable 14, the same score as Liz Gerrard. Here is this weeks’ quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Jack's score. 
Thursday's Telegraph

1. Prime Minister Theresa May danced on to the stage to deliver her party conference speech to which song? 
2. Which single word was displayed on the front of the rostrum at the Tory party conference? 
3. In her conference speech, Theresa May said that the heirs of four former Labour politicians were not on the frontbench. Instead, she said, 'their faces stare blankly from the rows behind while another party occupies prime position: the Jeremy Corbyn party.' Name any two of the four politicians she mentioned. 
4. What is the name of the Tory MP who revealed he had sent a letter to the chairman of the Conservative 1922 backbench committee calling for a leadership contest? 
5. Former foreign secretary Boris Johnson told a fringe meeting in Birmingham that a prediction made by Chancellor Philip Hammond 'was the first Treasury forecast in a long time to have a distinct ring of truth’. What prediction was he referring to? 
6. US president Donald Trump said this week that ‘it's a very ____ time for young men in America’. What is the missing word? 
7. Four ‘bungling’ Russian spies were caught trying to hack into the Salisbury novichok investigation at a building which houses the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in which city? 
8. On which Indonesian island did a tsunami kill more than 1,400 people?
9. Kathryn Mayorga, a 34-year-old former model, filed a lawsuit claiming that footballer Cristiano Ronaldo raped her in a hotel in which city?
10. Why was 53-year-old Mick Ferris from Kent in the headlines? 
11. Teacher Eleanor Wilson, 29, appeared in court accused of having sex with a pupil in the lavatory of a plane travelling to the UK from which country? 
12. Donna Strickland became the first woman in 55 years to be awarded what
13. Britain’s third biggest company abandoned plans to move its headquarters to the Netherlands after opposition from investors. What is the name of the company?
14. A European country voted in a referendum to change its name. What is the new name? 
15. What is the name of the Ryder Cup golfer who hit a wayward tee shot which blinded 49-year-old Corine Remande? 
16. A 58-year-old suspected modern slavery victim has been rescued from a shed where he has lived for more than 40 years. In which county? 
17. What did 20-year-old Bradley Tout do when he was sentenced for rape at Worcester Crown Court? 
18. French crooner Charles Aznavour, who died aged 94, had one No 1 hit in Britain in 1974. What was it called?
19. Why were four schools in East London evacuated and closed? 
20. What was the name of the presenter who hosted long-running children's television show, Rainbow, who died this week aged 76?
21. Manager Steve Bruce was sacked by Championship club Aston Villa. What had been thrown at him by a fan at a game just days before his departure? 
22. Lauren Laverne’s first castaway guest on Radio Four’s Desert Island Discs described the moment he held his dad's hand as he took his final breath. Who was the guest? 
23. Why were comedian Amy Schumer and model Emily Ratajowski arrested this week? 
24. Brian McFadden will not be joining Westlife on their reunion tour next year. What has he announced he will be doing instead?
25. The world's most expensive what was sold for £848,000 at auction in Edinburgh? 

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