The top solo scorer in last week's newsquiz was Liz Gerard with 20 narrowly ahead of Dora Allday on 19, Janet Boyle 18.5 and Dan Williams on 18. There were some good team scores too. A special mention goes to my sons Jack and Thom who were home for father's day and surprised themselves with a score of 16. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe scored 17, the Roberts family 18, Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20, Marc Beyeler and wife 20.5 Phil and Maura Parsons 21.5 but, amazingly, the top team was my Three Legs drinking pals Peter, Stacey, Jamie and Les who clocked up a personal best of 22 on Saturday night. Here's 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.
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| A selection of today's front pages |
1. How many votes did Jeremy Hunt secure to get him through to the final round of the Tory leadership contest?
2. What did candidate Rory Stewart remove during the BBC Tory leadership debate?
3. Which broadcaster tweeted: 'I would like to apologise. We had the Imam from the BBC Tory leadership debate on our programme this morning. His social media comments have been extremely disturbing. We should have checked. We didn’t. I’m sorry’?
4. Who, when asked if he might leave the Labour party without a clear change of direction, said: 'I’m never going to leave the Labour party. Sometimes I wonder whether the Labour party is leaving me’?
5. Paul Crowther, who admitted throwing a milkshake over the Brexit Party leader, was ordered to pay how much in compensation for damaging Nigel Farage's lapel microphone, distress, inconvenience and suit cleaning?
6. Tory MP Mark Field was suspended for ‘manhandling' a female protester from which group who disrupted chancellor Philip Hammond’s speech at the Mansion House dinner?
7. Why was 83-year-old Irene Mayor in the headlines?
8. US president Donald Trump said Iran had 'made a very big mistake’ in doing what?
9. The first mass was held in Notre Dame cathedral since the fire with all priests and worshippers wearing what non-traditional item of clothing?
10. He cast Mel Gibson as Hamlet, Robert Powell as Jesus and, in 2004, was the first Italian to receive an honorary knighthood from the UK. Who is he?
11. Ascot racecourse took the unusual step of recommending that all those going to its Royal week do what?
12. British wrestling champion Adrian McCallum, who died age 36, was known by which ring name?
13. England’s women won all three of their group games to set up a last 16 match on Sunday against which country?
14. The City regulator fined which bank £45.5million for failure to disclose information on a £245million fraud at its Reading branch?
15. Police investigating whose death arrested David Henderson, 64, from York, on suspicion of manslaughter by an unlawful act?
16. International arrest warrants were issued for Russians Igor Girkin, Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov and Ukranian Leonid Kharchenko who are suspected of murdering who?
17. A letter signed by five regional commissioners, including Dame Sarah Storey and Chris Boardman, said that hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money is being wasted on what?
18. Who collapsed in the courtroom and later died while facing charges of espionage?
19. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are to split from which charity, that they shared with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, to set up their own?
20. A crew member working on which movie at Warner Bros Studios in Leavesden, Hertfordshire, was taken to hospital after being stabbed in the neck on set?
21. Why did Pakistan politician Shaukat Yousafza’s press conference go viral?
22. In the cricket world cup England batsman Eoin Morgan broke the record for the most number of sixes by a batsman in a One Day International innings. How many sixes did he score?
23. Top Gear returned to the BBC with ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and which other presenter?
24. What did broadcaster Piers Morgan describe as ‘the greatest moment of my life’?
25. The Department of Transport announced it was launching a road sign which features which animal?
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