Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle and Tom Savage who both clocked up 19.5. The top team was the Roberts family with 18.5. 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. Why did the MP for Chorley in Lancashire resign from the Labour Party?

2. Conservative Alun Cairns quit from which Cabinet position after being accused of lying over an aide’s sabotaging of a rape trial?

3. Which former Tory MP and newspaper columnist announced he was quitting the Conservative Party after 50 years and joining the Liberal Democrats?

4. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, in his letter to outgoing deputy Tom Watson, said he had enjoyed a shared love of gardening and added 'I hope the ___ plants I gave you thrive’. What is the missing word?

5. What did Sky News presenter Kay Burley interview instead of Tory chairman James Cleverly this week?

6. The leader of the House of Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg issued 'a profound apology' after he said on LBC radio: 'I think if either of us were in a fire, whatever the fire brigade said, we would leave the burning building. It just seems the ___ ___thing to do.’ What are the two missing words?

7. Jacob-Rees Mogg’s comments on Grenfell prompted who to call for his resignation calling him ‘evil’, ’the scummiest’ and an ‘alien’?

8. Business and Energy Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced a moratorium to be ‘maintained until compelling new evidence is provided which addresses the concerns around the prediction and management of induced seismicity’. What is it a moratorium on?

9. An effigy of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and leader of the Commons Jacob Rees-Mogg sitting on a rollercoaster appeared where?

10. Which retailer announced a phased closure of all of its 79 UK stores, putting 2,500 jobs at risk, after saying it was 'not capable' of being sufficiently profitable and having failed to find a buyer?
11. Who scored all of England’s 12 points in their Rugby World Cup final defeat to South Africa?
12. The chief executive of which company was sacked for violating company policy by having a 'consensual relationship with an employee’?
13. Retired oil executive Ron Carey, 80, was killed taking part in what event?
14. People in the Meadowhall shopping centre in which UK city were told by police not to leave after flooding left roads gridlocked?
15. Lewis Hamilton came second in the US Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, to become this year's Formula One world champion. How many times has he won the title?
16. People were injured when a roof collapsed during a performance of which play at the Piccadilly Theatre in London's West End?
17. A 27-year-old man is on trial for the murder of 22-year-old backpacker Grace Millane from Essex in which city?
18. Around 30 passengers including ten Britons were injured after a FlixBus travelling between which two cities overturned?
19. A police officer has been charged with murdering which former footballer who collapsed and died after being Tasered in 2016?
20. Buckingham Palace confirmed this week that no new outfits designed for the Queen would use what?
21. What two-word phrase has been named Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year?
22. Bookies are offering odds of 500-1 that who will win the Wimbledon men’s title one day?
23. What was returned to Stephen Morris in a Waitrose car park in Beckenham, Kent?
24. An 85-year-old man, described as the 'hardest worker in Irish broadcasting’ who hosted daily radio shows, the Late Late Show and events such as the Rose of Tralee, died this week. What was his name?
25. Actress Emma Watson described her relationship status as not 'single' but what?

Answers here