Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Kieran Corcoran with 20 followed by Janet Boyle on 19, Sam Ormiston and Gavin Devine 17 and Pam Pearce 16. The top teams were Simon, Sue and Will Cole with 22 followed by Peter and Stacey 21, Maura and Phil Parsons and the Roberts Family both on 20, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Paul Hindle, Lynne Swift and team with 18. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on.

Thursday's pages dominated by the Budget (with a bit of Meghan)

1. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced in the Budget there would be a rise in Corporation Tax in 2023, the first since 1974, from 19 per cent to what?
2. The Chancellor announced in the Budget that hundreds of jobs would be moved to a Treasury campus in which town?
3. It was also announced in the Budget that the contactless card limit is to rise from £45 to what amount?
4. The Government’s proposed pay rise of what per cent for nurses was described as 'pitiful' by the Royal College of Nursing?
5. Buckingham Palace said it was to investigate claims in which newspaper that the Duchess of Sussex had bullied royal staff?
6. The Duchess of Sussex said Buckingham Palace could not expect her and Prince Harry to be silent if it was 'perpetuating ___ about us'. What is the missing word?
7. Italy imposed the first EU-sanctioned export ban on vaccines when it blocked 250,000 AstraZeneca doses from going to which country?
8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that what had narrowed to 379 households in south-east England?
9. Which country announced it will open its borders to Britons who had two vaccinations from May 1 - even though UK Government travel restrictions will still be in force?
10. For how many hours on Wednesday did Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon give evidence to a Holyrood committee looking at the investigation into harassment complaints against her predecessor Alex Salmond?
11. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Holyrood committee: 'I would never have wanted to ___ Alex Salmond - I would never, ever have wanted any of this to happen. I had no motive, intention or desire to ___ Alex Salmond.' What is the missing word?
12. Amazon opened a till-less grocery store in London - its first 'just walk out' shop outside the US. What is the shop called?
13. Where did a Second World War C-47 Dakota perform a flypast?
14. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was given a three-year prison sentence for what offence?
15. An article by former Daily Mirror editor Roy Greenslade on his support for the IRA prompted him to resign his post as an honorary professor at which university?
16. Footballer Ian St John, who died aged 82, signed for Liverpool from his home town club in 1961 and, once his playing career was over in 1973, returned to the same club as manager. Name the club.
17. Which company was revealed to have 40 names, including Boyle, Gallagher, O'Donnell, McGuinness, Murphy and O’Reilly, on an 'undesirables' list?
18. Hundreds of students were evacuated after a World War Two bomb was found at which university?
19. Why was the 9pm Avanti West Coast train from London Euston to Manchester on Tuesday delayed and then taken out of service?
20. The estate of which author announced six books will no longer be published because of racially insensitive imagery?
21. Irish amateur jockey Rob James and trainer Gordon Elliott apologised and were put under investigation after being filmed doing what?
22. Actor Johnny Briggs, who died aged 85, played which character in Coronation Street for 30 years?
23. Which television programme collected the best actor, best actress, best supporting actress and best series awards at the Golden Globes?
24. Ant Middleton said on Instagram 'don't employ a lion if you want a kitten' after he was sacked from which Channel 4 show?
25. Who accused the Netflix show Ginny and Georgia of degrading women for featuring a joke about her which she branded 'deeply sexist'?

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