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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| Sunday's newspapers were dominated by the death of Caroline Flack |
2. Andrew Sabisky, a Downing Street adviser who stepped down after comments on eugenics, race and women came to light, described himself by what term, based on a book by American psychologist Philip Tetlock?
3. The Treasury confirmed that, despite the surprise change of Chancellors, the Budget would still be held on what date?
4. Boris Johnson became the first serving Prime Minister to be given what since the Duke of Grafton in 1769?
5. What did Nigel Farage call a 'failure of leadership’, Jeremy Corbyn say was an example of ’true colours’ and Kier Starmer describe as an ‘appalling decision’?
6. According to a Government source quoted in The Sunday Times Prime Minister Boris Johnson was 'really strident’ about the reform of what, saying that ‘we will whack it’?
7. Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, at the Las Vegas debate, warned against voting for Mike Bloomberg saying: 'Democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one ___ ___ for another.' What are the two missing words?
8. Caroline Flack’s family chose which regional daily newspaper, saying they trusted it, to share a message that the television presenter wrote before her death?
9. Manchester City were banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons and fined how many euros for 'serious breaches' of UEFA's financial fair play rules?
10. Why were David and Sally Abel from Oxfordshire in the headlines?
11. A far-right extremist killed at least ten people in two shisha bars in which city in Germany?
12. The new polymer £20 note issued this week features a portrait of which artist in front of his painting of The Fighting Temeraire?
13. What did 53-year-old Dagmar Turner do while undergoing brain surgery to have a tumour removed at King's College Hospital?
14. Three Extinction Rebellion activists were charged with criminal damage after climate activists dug up the lawn at which university?
15. Debby Foxwell, 41, was found guilty of murder, after a court heard she had hit her neighbour in Welwyn Garden City with what?
16. Why did Manchester United players wear black armbands in their win against Chelsea on Monday?
17. Who resigned as BBC’s deputy political editor to join Times Radio?
17. Who resigned as BBC’s deputy political editor to join Times Radio?
18. Which company said it has scrapped a system called Sapience that tracked the time employees spent at their desks and sent warnings to those who took long breaks?
19. England rugby coach Eddie Jones apologised for appearing to accuse a reporter of thinking that who all looked the same?
20. Islamic State supporter Safiyya Shaikh admitted, at the Old Bailey, plotting to blow herself up in a bomb attack on which London landmark?
21. Dame Julie Walters revealed that she had been given the all-clear after being diagnosed with what type of cancer 18 months ago?
22. Rapper Dave performed his track Black at the Brits adding new lyrics including the line 'the truth is our Prime Minister’s a real ___’. What is the missing word?
23. Mabel won best female artist at the Brits exactly 30 years after her mother won two awards at the same event. Who is her mother?
24. Elton John stopped performing half way through a concert in which city after losing his voice because of walking pneumonia?
25. Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins reached the final of ITV’s The Masked Singer. What was she dressed as?
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