Give this week's newsquiz a go - 25 questions

There were some impressive scores in last week's newsquiz. The top solo performers were Alex Richman and Becca McAuley who both scored 20, Ted Ditchburn and Liz Gerard clocked-up 19, Jayne Howarth got 18 on her quiz debut and Toby Brown, Gavin Devine, Tom Savage and Alan Geere all scored 17. Bruce and Sarah Hayward were the top team with 20. The Wright Brothers squad of Richard, Danny, Ivan and Diana scored 18 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 17. 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.

Saturday's front pages report on the London Bridge terror attack (questions 1, 2 and 3)

1. Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, who were killed in the terrorist attack at London Bridge, were both graduates of which university? 

2. The terror attack at London Bridge began at a prison rehabilitation event being held in which building?
3. The London Bridge terrorist was attacked by people using a fire extinguisher, a ceremonial lance and which other makeshift weapon?

4. Who said this week: 'The Prime Minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China. It was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me’?

5. Labour promised to cap classroom sizes at how many pupils across all schools in England if it won the election?

6. Climate change activists dressed as what glued themselves to Liberal Democat's leader Jo Swinson's electric-powered battle bus in south London?

7. The Prime Minister’s father Stanley Johnson, speaking on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show, suggested that the 'Great British public' couldn’t spell which word 'if they tried’?

8. The 2019 Nato Summit was held on Wednesday at The Grove Hotel in which town?

9. Asked if the NHS would be on the table in post-Brexit talks, US president Donald Trump said: ‘If you handed it to us on a ___ ___, we’d want nothing to do with it.’ What are the two missing words? 

10. After a video showed world leaders joking about Donald Trump at the Nato Summit, how did the US president describe Canadian PM Justin Trudeau before announcing he was leaving early?

11. Who said in a television interview: 'He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there's only one of us telling the truth’?

12. A 12-year-old boy was killed and five other pupils were injured in an alleged hit-and-run outside a high school in which town?
13. Shares in which retailer tumbled after it estimated the value of its stock had been overstated by £20million to £25million?

14. British cave expert Vernon Unsworth told a Los Angeles court that he was 'humiliated, ashamed and dirtied' after Tesla founder Elon Musk called him what online?
15. Hundreds of thousands of people marched across France in one of the biggest public sector strikes in decades against president Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul what?
16. Why were families in Samoa asked to hang a red flag outside their homes?

17. Former England cricket captain Bob Willis, who died age 70 this week, added which name by deed poll in 1965?

18. What was the username of the person who went viral - and forced an official denial from Buckingham Palace - after screenshots from his Whatsapp group claimed the Queen had died?

19. Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi won the coveted Ballon d'Or trophy for a record number of times. How many?

20. The British Geological Survey confirmed that towns in which county were shaken by a 3.2 magnitude earthquake?

21. Which company saw £1.1billion wiped off its value after its Christmas advert was described as ‘sexist’, 'dystopian’, ‘offensive' and ‘dumb’?

22. A society aimed at tackling the misuse of what has closed down, with the founder saying that 'ignorance and laziness present in modern times have won’? 

23. Who was booed off stage and had a bread roll thrown at him after making Brexit jokes at the Lord's Taverners annual charity cricket lunch?
24. Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani shared what?

25. Who, according to Spotify, was the most streamed artist in the world over the last decade having been listened to 28 billion times?

Answers here