Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 21, just ahead of Liz Gerard on 20. The top team was Sam Neve, Rod Ardehali and Ailsa Leslie with a hugely impressive 24. The Benson family scored 21, the Cole family 20.5, Maura and Phil Parsons 19 and the Roberts family 18.5. Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Lucy Thorpe and Adam Batsone both scored 18. Here is this week’s quiz. As always 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. Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to meet members of which campaign group but then changed his mind saying it was 'regrettably not possible’?

2. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a meeting of Tory MPs: 'I know it’s been tough. I’ve got to warn you, it's about to get tougher. The waters are about to get ___’. What is the missing word?

3. How much was Piers Corbyn fined for being the ‘organiser' in the Unite for Freedom rally which saw thousands of anti-lockdown protestors descend on Trafalgar Square?

4. More than 100 staff at Banham Poultry in which county tested positive for Covid-19?

5. All passengers on a Tui flight to Cardiff from which island were told to self-isolate after some on board tested positive for coronavirus?

6. Filming for which movie had to be stopped only days after it had restarted when Robert Pattinson, who is playing the lead role, tested positive for coronavirus?

7. Which high street company, which was bought by Coca-Cola two years ago, announced it is to cut up to 1,650 jobs, more than one in ten of its workforce, saying trading remained challenging during the pandemic?

8. Which company said that, due to increased demand, it would create a further 7,000 UK jobs - in addition to the 3,000 it has created already - meaning 10,000 new positions this year?

9. Simon Case, former private secretary to the Duke of Cambridge, was appointed as head of what? 

10. What is the name of the BBC’s new director-general who decided that Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory would be sang at the Proms?

11. Who said he would house a refugee at his £4million Surrey mansion as his 'kids are grown up and he has plenty of room'?
12. How many migrants crossed the English Channel to reach the UK in small boats on Wednesday - significantly breaking the previous single-day record?
13. Italy's coastguard evacuated 49 people from an overloaded migrant rescue boat funded by whom?

14. Singer Adele found herself embroiled in a row over cultural appropriation after she wore her hair in Bantu knots and a bikini showing the flag of which country to mark the Notting Hill Carnival?

15. What did Pakistan's ministry of foreign affairs describe as ‘a deliberate act to offend the sentiments of billions of Muslims’ adding that it 'undermined the global aspirations for peaceful co-existence as well as social and inter-faith harmony’? 

16. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Comrade Duch, who died this week aged 77, was convicted of crimes against humanity when he was a senior figure in which regime?

17. The valuation of which company at $2.3 trillion (£1.7 trillion) surpassed the entire value of all the companies in the FTSE 100 this week?

18. Ant and Dec and Simon Cowell were among those who paid tribute to the warm-up act on Britain's Got Talent, who died age 51. What was his name?

19. Claire Glatman, 60, was killed when she was hit by a speedboat while swimming in the sea off which island?

20. Chadwick Boseman, who died aged 43, was the lead character in the first superhero movie to be nominated for a best picture Oscar. What was the character?

21. Who said: 'I am tired. My toes are the worst part, my big toes on both sides are pretty beat up. But I did all right physically’, adding that he 'had to put the after-burners on’
22. DJ Erick Morillo, who died age 49, reached No 5 in the UK charts in 1994 under the name Reel 2 Reel featuring The Mad Stuntman with a song that was then used in the Madagascar films. Name the song. 

23. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex reached a deal to make a range of programmes with which company?

24. Singer Ed Sheeran announced on Instagram the birth of his daughter called  Lyra ___ Seaborn Sheeran. What is the baby’s second name? 

25. What was Olympic boxer Nicola Adams referring to when she said: 'It's amazing to be a part of the movement for change, diversity and breaking boundaries in the entertainment industry’?

Answers here