The newsquiz - 25 questions about the week

Last week's top scorer in the newsquiz was Jake Hurfurt with 19, narrowly ahead of Liz Gerrard on 18 and Steve Silk on 17. The top team was the Three Legs drinkers - Peter, Stacey, Melinda, Bryan and Tony - with a best ever score of 19, just ahead of the Roberts family on 18. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.  

1. A fourth vote on Theresa May's Brexit will be held on the week beginning what date?

2. Who told the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference in Manchester: 'I'm going to go for it. Of course I'm going to go for it.’?

3. Defence secretary Penny Mordaunt promised an amnesty on offences committed more than ten years ago by veterans who served anywhere in the world with one exception? Where is it?
4. What is being put back in the public sector after the National Audit Office said part-privatisation, introduced in 2014 by then Justice Secretary Chris Grayling, had cost taxpayers nearly £500million?

5. Whose long-delayed autobiography For The Record will be released on September 19 – days before the Tory Party conference?
6. Jeremy Kyle’s show, cancelled after the death of a participant, was ITV's highest rating daytime show and ran for how many years?
7. Following the cancellation of Jeremy Kyle’s show, Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman Damian Collins said: 'There needs to be an independent review of the __ __ __ TV companies have to participants in reality TV shows’. What are the three missing words?

8. Five banks were fined €1.07billion (£935million) by the European Commission after they clubbed together to rig the foreign exchange market. Name any two of them. Half a point for each.

9. Arts minister Michael Ellis placed an export ban on what book, temporarily stopping it from leaving the UK?
10. Which two teams will compete for the final Premier League spot in the Championship play-offs. Half a point for each. 

11. Twenty five white male Republicans voted to ban what in Alabama?

12. Simon Armitage, a 56-year-old former probation officer, was appointed to which role?

13. Why was nurse Helen Kennett in the headlines?

14. The deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, descended nearly 35,853ft (10,927 metres) in which trench in the Pacific Ocean?

15. Who accepted substantial damages and an apology at the High Court from the Splash News agency that took aerial photographs of his home, forcing him and his wife, to move out?

16. Manchester City won the Premier Leage title, just one point ahead of Liverpool, with how many points in total?

17. US president Donald Trump declared a national economic emergency that empowers the government to ban technology and services to 'protect America from ___ ___’. What are the two missing words?

18. The founder of which company is handing over 60 per cent of his business to employees and giving the 500 staff a shared bonus of £3.5million?

19. What was the name of the professional wrestler who died after collapsing in the ring during a bout at the Roundhouse in Camden, London? 

20. A painting of haystacks by which artist was sold for $110.7million (£85.7million), at Sotheby’s in New York, to become the ninth-most expensive work ever sold at auction?

21. When Bob Hawke, who died at 89, was Australian Prime Minister he replaced what song with Advance Australia Fair? 

22. Who was banned from his local pub, the George and Dragon, after the landlord accused him of walking away from a head-on car crash on a country lane in Kent?

23. Doris Day, who died at 97, was best known as an actress but also had 15 top 40 singles in the UK charts, including two number ones. Name either of her No 1 hits.

24. Who won the leading actor and actress awards at the Baftas? Half a point for each.

25. Diners at Hawksmoor Manchester who ordered a bottle of Chateau le Pin Pomerol for £260 were apparently mistakenly given a bottle worth how much?

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