Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week's newsquiz, the first of 2019, was clearly a toughie with the average scores lower that usual. The pick of the bunch was Toby Brown with 16, just ahead of Sally Tipper and Gavin Devine on 15. The top team, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe, also scored 15, pipping The Penmans on 14. Here is this week's quiz ... as usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Let me know how you get on.

Thursday's front pages

1. The Grieve amendment, passed by 308 votes to 297, demanded that the Government outlines its next steps within how many days if the Brexit deal is defeated next Tuesday?

2. How many Conservatives rebelled and voted for the Grieve amendment?

3. The Government became the first since 1978 to lose a vote on what?

4. Expressing anger at the Speaker, John Bercow, for allowing the Grieve amendment, Conservative Crispin Blunt said many MPs now 'have an unshakeable conviction that the ____ is no longer neutral’. What is the missing word?

5. Facebook removed James Goddard's pages after he did what?

6. When Parliament resumed, Labour leader Jeremy Corybn said of Theresa May’s Brexit plan that ‘not a single ___ or ___ has changed.' What are the missing two words. Half a point for each. 

7. The Government's first major test of plans for border disruption in the event of a no-deal Brexit, involved a convoy of 89 lorries queued up at which airport?

8. Jaguar Land Rover announced it was cutting how many jobs, with the majority coming from its UK workforce?

9. US president Donald Trump walked out of a meeting with Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi after they refused to fund his border wall and later tweeted 'Nancy said, NO. I said ___ ___, nothing else works!’ What is the missing hyphenated word? 

10. Why was 14-year-old Jayden Moodie in the headlines?

11. The biggest League Cup semi-final victory was recorded by Manchester City against Burton Albion. What was the score?

12. Chief executive Sergio Bucher and chairman Sir Ian Cheshire were voted off the board of which retailers by its shareholders?

13. Who announced on Twitter that and he and his wife MacKenzie are to divorce after a 25-year marriage?

14. Footballer Wayne Rooney was fined how much (in dollars) after being arrested for being drunk and swearing at Dulles International Airport in America?

15. A lorry driver was questioned after 27 suspected migrants were found in the back of his HGV on which motorway?

16. Who signalled his impending retirement, saying: 'I am not sure I am able to play through the pain for another four or five months’? 

17. What did MoneySuperMarket tycoon Richard Mason describe as like being 'hit by a sledgehammer’?

18. What are to be phased out in prisons in England and Wales under Ministry of Justice plans after a study said they were ‘punitive' and ‘institutional’?
19. Darren Pencille, 35, appeared at Staines Magistrates’ Court accused with what?

20. The French interior minister said that 'gilets-jaune' protesters had vandalised almost 60 per cent of the country's what?
21. Who told former MP George Galloway to ‘fuck off’ on Twitter during a spat over the Labour Party’s position on anti-semitism?

22. The Duchess of Sussex became patron of four charities this week. They were the National Theatres, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, animal charity Mayhew and an organistion that supports women returning to work. What is it called?

23. Ben Whishaw won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a TV series at the Golden Globes and dedicated his award to the person he played - a 'true queer hero and icon’. Who did Whishaw play?
24. Which film is leading the field in the Baftas with 12 nominations?

25. French author and television presenter 50-year-old Yann Moix caused outrage after saying that who were ‘invisible' to him?

Answers here