Have a crack at the newsquiz

There were some strong scores in last week's newsquiz. Top solo spot went to Tom Savage and Mark Perkins who both scored 20, ahead of Janet Boyle, Andy Reed and Andy Drinkwater on 18 and Gavin Devine on 17.5. The top teams were The Roberts Family and The Penmans both with 19. The Roberts would have scored a record-equalling 23 if Jon Roberts hadn't overruled his youngest child four times! A lesson learned. 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.

Today's front pages

1. Memos by Sir Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US, giving a candid assessment of Donald Trump’s administration were leaked to which British newspaper?
2. One of Sir Kim Darroch’s memos said: ’As seen from here, we really don’t believe that this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction-riven, less diplomatically ____ and ____’. What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
3. The Tory leadership debate was held in front of a studio audience in which city on Tuesday night?
4. In the televised Tory leadership debate Jeremy Hunt said his rival Boris Johnson was 'minimising the risk of a no-deal Brexit’ and peddling what?
5. What did Boris Johnson say, in the televised Tory leadership debate, was the quality he most admired about Jeremy Hunt?

6. MPs voted to permit what by 383 votes to 73?

7. What did Lord Triesman, Ara Darzi and Leslie Turnberg all do this week?
8. Six tourists were killed and at least 30 other people injured when gale-force winds, heavy rain and hailstorms hit which European country?
9. What was the name of the British oil tanker that was intercepted by Iranian boats in the Gulf - before they were chased off by a Royal Navy ship?

10. Broadcaster Sir David Attenborough told the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee that to do what 'is an insult'?
11. Johanna Konta, after her defeat by Barbora Strycova in the Wimbledon singles quarter-final, asked a reporter to not do what to her?
12. Denise Nickerson, who died aged 62, was best known for playing which character in the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
13. Who won the Women's World Cup Golden Boot, for being top scorer, and the Golden Ball, awarded to the tournament's top player?
14. How long was the jail sentence given to former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson after he was found guilty of contempt of court at the Old Bailey?
15. Who was arrested when his private plane landed in New York and was then charged with running 'a vast network' of underage girls for sex?
16. The Information Commissioner’s Office used new powers for the first time to punish which two companies, with fines totalling almost £300million, for breaking laws protecting consumers’ data? Half a point for each.
17. An American toddler fell to her death from the deck of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in which island?
18. What is the name of the Texan billionaire who twice ran for US president as an independent and who died age 89 this week?

19. Egypt said it will instruct a law firm in the UK to file a civil suit over the sale of what artefact that was bought for £4.7million at Christie's auction house in London?
20. Why was 51-year-old mother Rachel Bailey of Dorking fined £120?

21. The Queen declared this week that she was still ‘perfectly capable’ of doing what?
22. England reached the Cricket World Cup final against New Zealand on Sunday by beating Australia by how many wickets?

23. What was described by an All England Club source as ‘a nightmare’, by media consultant Sally Jones as 'silly control freakery’ and by actress Tatum O’Neal as ‘tacky’?

24. Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of How to Train Your Dragon, was appointed to which role?
25. Who played a DJ set for the Love Island contestants at their own Ministry of Sound party on Sunday?

Answers here