Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Hannah Tomes and Janet Boyle, both with 20, just ahead of Toby Brown and Siân Brewis on 19. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with an impressive 23. The Penmans and the Roberts Family scored 22, Thom, Sam, Shannon and Harry 21 and Simon, Sue and Will Cole 20. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the last seven days. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.  

A selection of today's front pages

1. US President Donald Trump was accused of ‘fanning the flames’ after he tweeted which seven-word phrase originally used by a Miami police chief during a ‘get-tough policy' on black protesters in the 1960s?
2. Bishop Michael Curry, who delivered the sermon at Prince Harry’s wedding to Meghan Markle, accused President Donald Trump of using what item for 'partisan political purposes’?

3. US defence secretary Mark Esper said he opposed Donald Trump’s threat to use the 1807 Insurrection Act to allow what?

4. What is the name of the Minneapolis police officer who has been charged with second degree murder over the death of George Floyd?
5. The chairman of Kick It Out, Sanjay Bhandari, urged every Premier League footballer to do what, when the season resumes, in protest against the killing of George Floyd?

6. Cabinet minister Alok Sharma 'sniffled, sweated and snorted' through a Commons statement, wiping his brow and blowing his nose, before self-isolating for coronavirus. What is his Cabinet position?

7. What did Conservative MP Steve Baker say was ‘a farce’, Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union, call 'a disaster’ and opposition Chief Whip Nick Brown describe as the 'Rees-Mogg conga’?

8. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that face coverings will be 'a condition of travel’ on public transport in England from what date?

9. Government scientific advisers avoided commenting on the Dominic Cummings affair except for one who, when asked whether people in authority should set an example, said: 'In my opinion the rules are clear and they have always been clear. In my opinion they are for the benefit of all. In my opinion they apply to all.' Who was he?
10. Why did more than 1,000 people snake around a car park in Warrington on Monday morning?
11. Premier League teams will be allowed to make five substitutions in the remaining games of the season but how many subs will be allowed on the bench?
12. A survey by King's College London found that six in ten Britons were suffering from what since lockdown began?

13. Police were forced to close a packed beach when four people were injured, three seriously, after cliff jumping at Durdle Door in which county?

14. TV presenter Kate Garraway gave a tearful interview about her husband's 68 days in hospital fighting coronavirus. What is his name (forename and surname)?

15. The foreign minister of which European country said anyone in the UK thinking of visiting this summer will be 'most welcome’?

16. What is the name of the German paedophile and drug trafficker who is the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case?

17. German police released photos of two vehicles which are believed to be linked to a man suspected of the murder of Madeleine McCann. What were they? Half a point for each.

18. Emma Tullett said her family was ‘devastated' after their house, named Cliff Hanger, fell on to a beach on which island following a cliff collapse?

19. Why was Zodiakos in the sporting headlines?

20. Michael Angelis, who died age 76, took over which role from Ringo Starr in 1991?

21. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge filed legal action against which magazine after it published claims including that Kate felt 'exhausted and trapped' in the Royal Family?

22. Love Island contestants Molly-Mae Hague and Tommy Fury found themselves at the centre of a controversy over third-party dog imports after their Pomeranian died soon after it was flown in from which country?

23. Steve Priest, who died age 72, was the bassist and vocalist with which glam rock band that had 13 top 20 hits in the 1970s?

24. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken announced during a live broadcast from space that they were giving what name to their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule? 

25. The Bafta nominations were announced this week with which mini-series leading the TV awards with 14 nominations?

Answers here