The newsquiz: 25 questions about the week

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 19, narrowly ahead of Janet Boyle 18.5 and Liz Gerard on 18. The top teams were Sam, Harry and Shannon from Sheffield and Bruce and Sarah Hayward who both scored 18.5. The Penmans scored 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

The Cabinet reshuffle dominates today's front pages
(Questions 1 to 3)

1. Sajid Javid, explaining his resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer after being told to sack his aides, said: 'I was unable to accept those conditions and I do not believe any ____ minister would accept those conditions.’ What is the missing hyphenated word?

2. What position did Rishi Sunak hold before his appointment as Chancellor?

3. Suella Braverman was appointed to which Cabinet position in Boris Johnson’s reshuffle?

4. The World Health Organisation announced that the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is what?

5. Coronavirus ‘superspreader’ Steve Walsh, 53, from Hove, contracted the disease on a business trip to which country?

6. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the HS2 high-speed rail link will start in April with the first phase between London and Birmingham and a second phase terminating at which two cities? Half a point for each.

7. The Government launched a consultation into the possibility of extending the period of time for which eggs, sperm and embryos can be frozen? What is the current limit?

8. The co-founder of which company denied paying for Boris Johnson's £15,000 Caribbean Christmas holiday with his partner Carrie Symonds?

9. The Government announced that an independent review would be held into maternity services at which NHS Trust after the deaths of up to 15 babies?

10. At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson told Jeremy Corbyn that who had been 'notified to the UK Government as a spouse with no official role’?

11. A deportation flight to Jamaica, which was meant to be carrying 42 offenders, left with only how many on board after a last-minute court intervention that angered Downing Street? 

12. Storm Ciara helped British Airways break what record?

13. Storm Ciara claimed a Premier League football match - the first time in six years that one has been postponed because of the weather - which was due to have been played at which ground?

14. Tim Steiner, 50, chief executive of which online retailer was paid a £58.7million bonus despite the company suffering a £215 million loss in its last financial year?

15. A 32-year-old sergeant-major shot dead 29 people, including his commanding officer, in a shopping mall in which country?

16. Sinn Féin won how many seats in the Irish election ... one fewer that Fianna Fáil and 14 more than it won in the 2016 election?

17. Public Health England said that cases of what viral infection have reached their highest level in a decade?

18. Robyn Peoples, from Belfast, and Sharni Edwards, from Brighton, were the first people to do what?

19. What is the name of the David Hockney painting that sold for more than £23million at an auction in Sotheby’s?
20. The Queen's eldest grandson Peter Phillips announced that he was separating from his wife of 12 years. What is her name?

21. The Oxford English Dictionary has changed its definition of what word to include a 'supporter of or a player for' Tottenham Hotspur?

22. Sam Rowley won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award with a picture of what?

23. South Korean film Parasite stole the headlines at the Oscars by becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize but who won best actor and actress? Half a point for each name.
24. How did actress Natalie Portman show her support for female film directors at the Oscars?

25. Rapper Slowthai jumped into the crowd at the NME Awards after being heckled for making sexual comments towards who?

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