Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Bruce Hayward with a personal best of 18, narrowly ahead of the Roberts Family on 17. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

Today's front pages

1. Eight Labour and three Conservative MPs quit their parties to form which group, claiming to 'represent the centre ground of British politics’?

2. Seven MPs quit Labour on Monday to form the breakaway centre group. They included Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and Angela Smith. Name any two of the other four. 

3. The seven Labour defectors were joined by Joan Ryan who said the 'party under Jeremy Corbyn has become infected with the ____ of anti-Jewish racism’. What is the missing word?

4. Defecting Labour MP Angela Smith apologised for having ‘misspoke' after she appeared to refer to people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds as having a funny what?

5. Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen, the three Tory MPs who quit their party, said in a statement: 'We no longer feel we can remain in the party of a government whose policies and priorities are so firmly in the grip of the ___ and ___.’ What are the two missing abbreviations? Half a point for each.

6. Labour’s Paul Flynn, who died this week, was the second eldest MP in parliament and the oldest person to speak from the frontbench since Gladstone was prime minister. How old was he?

7. Who was readmitted to the Labour Party on Monday only to be suspended on Wednesday?

8. In a row over Gibraltar, Spain threatened to block British citizens from free travel in Europe after Brexit meaning they could have to pay how much for a visa?

9. Lawyers representing which two female television personalities said they were preparing legal action against up to 70 Twitter users for libel or harassment over remarks about anti-semitism in the Labour Party? Half point for each name.

10. Which East Midlands-based company, which employs 376 staff went bust, blaming Brexit as the main cause of its collapse?

11. Isis bride Shamima Begum has been stripped of her British nationality but her son, who was born on Saturday, has not. What is the name of her new-born son?
12. Which country said that Isis bride Shamima Begum was not a citizen, never applied for dual nationality and that 'there is no question of her being allowed to enter’ the country?

13. A 16-year-old boy was found guilty of the murder of six-year-old Alesha MacPhail after her body was found on which island?

14. Honda has confirmed it will close its factory, which employs 3,500 staff, in which town?

15. Which company's shares dived by 15 per cent after the Competition and Markets Authority cast doubt on its merger plans?

16. People were injured after a ceiling collapsed into a bar at which holiday park in Brean Sands near Weston-super-Mare?

17. In an attempt to try to prevent a repeat of the Christmas chaos at Gatwick, flying drones within how many kilometres of an airport is to be made illegal?

18. Musician Peter Tork, who died age 77, was bass guitarist for which famous 1960s band?

19. A study, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, said one in 13 young people in England and Wales experiences what disorder by the age of 18?

20. The General Synod voted to end a law that has existed since the 17th century, meaning churches will no longer be legally required to do what?

21. A 32-year-old supporter of which English football team was fighting for his life after a violent attack in the German city of Gelsenkirchen?

22. The Duchess of Sussex flew back from her New York baby shower on a private jet with which of her celebrity friends?

23. Who took home the awards for best British group and album of the year at the Brit Awards?
24. Hugh Jackman opened the Brit Awards singing which song?

25. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died aged 85, left some of his $200m (£153m) to Choupette? Who is Choupette?

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