Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Sam Neve and Liz Gerard who both scored 20, narrowly ahead of Gavin Devine on 19. The best team score was 23 by Phil and Maura Parsons. Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe scored 21. 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.

A selection of today's front pages 

1. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, explaining the A-level U-turn, said: 'We ended up in a situation where ____ didn't deliver the system that we had been reassured and believed that would be in place.’ What is the missing word?

2. This week Croatia, Austria and which other country were removed from the UK’s 'safe' list meaning anyone arriving from there after 4am on Saturday will have to self-isolate?

3. Who was appointed as chair of the National Institute for Health Protection, England's new public health agency replacing Public Health England?

4. Former Chancellor Sajid Javid accepted a job as senior adviser for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at which company?

5. Sean Fielding, the council leader of which town, urged the Government not to impose a local lockdown saying it could prove 'catastrophic for business’?

6. Marks & Spencer confirmed it was cutting how many jobs, to the nearest 1,000, over the next three months after saying the pandemic had made it clear there had been a 'material shift in trade’?

7. A Sudanese teenager was found dead on a beach near Calais after trying to cross the Channel in an inflatable dinghy using what for oars?

8. The Department for Transport said hands-free driving could be legal on UK roads by next spring, after launching a consultation on ALKS technology. What does ALKS stand for?
9. Morrisons supermarket is running a trial in eight stores from Monday as it plans to ditch all what from its stores?

10. The Champions League semi-finals were held this week with English teams and those from which other two countries not represented for the first time since the competition changed its name in 1992? Half a point for each.

11. The EU agreed to impose sanctions on which country, saying it did not recognise the result of a recent election and calling for the release of hundreds of protesters who have been imprisoned?
12. Which classical guitarist, who won four grammies and was awarded an OBE and CBE, died this week aged 87?

13. Tributes were paid to four young men who died after their car crashed into a house and caught fire in which English county?

14. A preliminary temperature of how many degrees was recorded in Death Valley in California which, if confirmed, will be the planet’s highest temperature in almost a century? 

15. What is the name of the storm that battered western Britain with gusts of 70mph?

16. A judge at the Old Bailey gave Hashem Abedi the longest minimum sentence in history, 55 years, for his role in the Manchester Arena terror attack. For what reason was he not given a life sentence with no minimum term?

17. Manchester United captain Harry Maguire was arrested on which island following a fight outside a bar?
18. Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Steve Bannon appeared in Manhattan federal court via video after being arrested for allegedly siphoning money from a campaign raising funds to do what?
19. Actor Ben Cross, who died aged 72, was probably best known for playing Harold Abrahams in which film?
20. The Premier League fixtures were announced this week with the first games taking place on what date?
21. Michelle Obama gave an 18-minute virtual Democratic national convention speech while wearing what - that then went viral on Google?
22. Who filed papers at the Los Angeles Superior Court asking to end her father's ‘conservatorship' which gives him control of her finances and career decisions?
23. Who donated £23,000 to London-based student Vitoria Mario to help her to pay for a maths degree at Warwick university?
24. How did Mark Rapley save his wife’s life at Shelley Beach in Australia?
25. Nottinghamshire police picked up what creature in a village street, describing it as 'one of the more bizarre findings we have come across’?

Answers here