Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top team score in last week's newsquiz was 18 by Jon Roberts and family. Team Hayward (Sarah, Bruce and the neighbour's cat) got 15. Liz Gerard was the top solo scorer with 16 followed by Gavin Devine on 14. Here's this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Let me know how you get on.

Today's front pages

1. How many Labour MPs voted against a cross-party amendment, which had their party's backing, to delay Brexit?

2. Britain objected to Gibraltar being described as what in EU legislation? 

3. Gary Lineker, along with Labour and Tory representatives, wrote a letter saying ‘we still want to be friends’ which appeared on the front page of a newspaper in which country?

4. Former Brexit secretary Dominic Raab, giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, admitted that he had not read what document all the way through, comparing it to a novel?

5. The Institute of Directors warned that what per cent of firms, in a survey of 1,200 members, had either moved part of their businesses abroad or were planning to do so because of Brexit?

6. Which Cabinet minister said that this week that 'extra time' may be needed to finalise legislation for Brexit?

7. Which supermarket announced it will close food counters in 90 of its stores as part of a wider cost-cutting plan that will affect 9,000 staff?

8. Wreckage from the light aircraft carrying football Emiliano Sala has been washed up on which French beach?

9. More than 140 people, including a child with a heart condition, crammed into which famous inn after being trapped by the snow on Bodmin Moor?

10. A baby girl found in a shopping bag in a park in east London has been given what name by hospital staff, after the road where she was found?

11. More than 300 people are dead or missing after a dam burst in which country?
12. A 37-year-old mother from east London became the first person in the UK to be found guilty of what at the Old Bailey?
13. An employee of which company claimed to have given birth in the staff toilet as she was too scared to miss her shift?

14. Who is Dr Terry Sanderson suing for £2.3million claiming brain damage after a skiing accident?

15. Laura Plummer, 34, has been released after serving 14 months of her prison sentence for taking 290 Tramadol tablets into which country?

16. Michael Jacobs-Hagen, who claimed he was abused by Michael Jackson when he was 14, said the singer used what nickname for him when they were in bed?

17. Tennis player Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open for a record mumber of times. How many?
18. What name did Prince George use when he introduced himself to a dog walker when out with grandma Carole Middleton?

19. Who said she was ‘not amused’ and felt ‘insulted’ when Prince Harry called her granny?

20. During a tour of One25, a charity in Bristol, the Duchess of Sussex wrote personal messages of empowerment and support on what for vulnerable sex workers?

21. Which comedian, a regular on BBC Radio 4 panel shows The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, died of cancer aged 57?

22. Actor Clive Swift, who died aged 82, was best known for his role as a beleaguered husband in which BBC sitcom, which ran between 1990 and 1995? 

23. Comedian Russell Brand called for what to be banned because it ‘violates’ children’s space?

24. Shoppers endured a 40-minute ordeal that they described as being like a horror film at St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff. What was the ordeal?

25. What did singer Kelsey Karter have tattooed on her face?

Answers here