Well done to Alan Geere who bossed last week’s newsquiz with 21. Hot on his heels were Janet Boyle, Andy Reed, Dora Allday and Yvonne Ridley who all posted scores of 20. Other good solo scorers were Toby Brown on 19, Becca McAuley 18 and Gavin Devine 17. The top team was the Roberts Family with 20. 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.
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2. Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, gave a speech to a private reception for which charity that he created in 2006 to honour his mother's legacy supporting those affected by HIV and Aids?
3. In his speech at the charity reception, where he gave his reasons for standing back from the Royal Family, what did Prince Harry call a ‘powerful force’?
4. The Duchess of Sussex’s father Thomas Markle told Channel 5 that he was ‘jealous’ of Prince Charles for doing something 'he really wanted to do’. What was it?
5. China suspended all outbound public transport from which city where the coronavirus is believed to have started?
6. The Government lost a vote in the House of Lords when Peers supported Lord Dubs' amendment to protect the rights of who?
7. Conservative party chairman James Cleverly confirmed that the Government is considering moving the House of Lords away from London – potentially to which city?
8. The GMB union, Chinese for Labour and Jess Phillips, who stood down, all said they would now be supporting which Labour leadership candidate?
9. More than 30 MPs, including former International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell, signed a letter calling on Boris Johnson to deliver a 'key engine for growth that we must not waver from’? What was the letter referring to?
10. Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom introduced Jack’s Law which gives workers what legal right?
11. UN human rights experts demanded an investigation into allegations that whose phone was hacked via a WhatsApp message?
12. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said activist Greta Thunberg should go to college and study what subject?
13. Why will champions Saracens be relegated from rugby union's top flight at the end of this season?
14. Which company announced, after a disappointing Christmas, it was cutting 3,000 middle managers but creating 7,000 hourly-paid roles 'to improve customer service'?
15. The Prince of Wales warned that 'hatred and intolerance still lurk in the human heart’ at a speech marking the anniversary of what?
16. On the first day of his impeachment trial Donald Trump broke his presidential record by doing what 142 times?
17. The Home Office said it was urgently 'considering our options’ after a decision which it said ‘appears to be a denial of justice’? What decision was it referring to?
18. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced its symbolic 'doomsday clock' had moved forward to how many seconds before midnight - the closest to world catastrophe since the clock's creation in 1947?
19. Who was revealed to be promoting drinks from the Guangming Dairy?
20. Laurence Fox caused a stir when he told a member of the Question Time audience a week ago that ' to call me a ___ ___ ___ is to be racist - you're being racist.’ What are the three missing words?
21. What did television personality Michael Palin say was 'sort of like losing a limb?’
22. Rock star Ozzy Osbourne revealed he had been diagnosed with what disease after a fall?
23. Why was Welsh teacher Francis Elive, 55, in the headlines?
24. Victoria Derbyshire tweeted that she was 'absolutely devastated’ when she found out via which newspaper that her BBC show was being axed ?
25. Who made headlines when she replaced Hamish with Oscar?
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