Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top scorers in last week's newsquiz were Janet Boyle and Robert Rea who both posted 18, just ahead of Toby Brown on 17.5, Gavin Devine on 17 and Dominic Hurst on 16. The top team was The Cole Family with 22, followed by Andy and Amanda 20, The Roberts Family, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Maura and Phil Parsons with 18, Paul Hindle's team on 17 and Peter and Stacey with 15.5. And there's a hat-tip to quiz regulars who rarely make the leader board but gained personal bests this week ... Ian McCulloch with 14 and Sarah C, who recorded one point a few weeks ago, with four points. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know how you get on. 

The demise of the Super League dominated Wednesday's front pages

1. Football’s breakaway Super League had 12 founding members. Six were from England and six from which other two countries? Half a point for each. 

2. Who reacted to football's Super League collapse by tweeting: 'I'm glad the united voice of football fans has been heard and listened to. It is now really important that we use this moment to secure the future health of the game at all levels' and added 'I'm committed to playing my part'.
3. What is the name of the chapel at Windsor Castle where Prince Philip’s funeral was held?
4. On the seat of Prince Philip's favourite driving carriage at his funeral were his cap, whip, brown driving gloves and a red pot containing what?

5. Why was 44-year-old Irene Windsor in the headlines?
6. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck, was found guilty on Tuesday of how many charges?
7. Which country was added to the UK red list from 4am today (Friday) after Prime Minister Boris Johnson cancelled a trip there to promote economic ties? 

8. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street news conference that a new Government group had been set-up to find medicines, including tablets, that could be taken at home to fight Covid-19. What is the group called?

9. The Government announced an internal inquiry into a leak, allegedly by former aide Dominic Cummings, of private messages between Boris Johnson and which businessman?
10. Who described the Government as the 'most distrustful, awful environment' he had ever worked in and compared UK politics to a 'cesspit'?
11. Downing Street announced that it will not be holding White House-style TV press briefings despite spending how much on the hi-tech studio in No 9 Downing Street?
12. What was the name of the pub in Bath where Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was thrown out by co-owner Rod Humphris?
13. She played Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter, Polly Gray in Peaky Blinders and the MP Clair Dowar in Skyfall. Who is she?
14. At a virtual White House summit, American President Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to cut US planet-heating emissions in half by what year?

15. Prime Minister Boris Johnson also urged world leaders to step up plans to cut gas emissions, saying: 'It’s vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ___ ___ or however you want to put it.' What are the two missing words?

16. There were arrests at an Extinction Rebellion demonstration in London to mark Earth Day after activists smashed the windows of which company’s headquarters in Canary Wharf?
17. Thirty-nine Post Office workers had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal after it was shown that their ‘thefts’ were down to a faulty IT system called what? 
18. A toaster-sized machine called Moxie, on Nasa's Perseverance rover on Mars, created five grams of what this week?
19. Which country expelled 18 Russian diplomats over their suspected involvement in an explosion at an arms depot in 2014 that killed two people?
20. Which country’s president died of his injuries following clashes with rebels, a day after provisional election results projected he would win a sixth term in office?
21. The FA Cup semi-finals at the weekend both ended in 1-0 victories meaning which two teams will play in the cup final on May 15? Half a point for each.
22. Singer Les McKeown, who died aged 65, fronted which Scottish pop band in the 1970s?
23. Britain’s supermarkets are facing a shortage of what after production was suspended due to a shortage of yeast?
24. Which championships changed their rules so that contestants had to write a submission that, according to organisers, 'sticks to the theme, that enlightens people, and doesn't bore the audience. And it all has to be done in 140 words'?
25. Which singer had a social media spat with frozen yoghurt shop The Bigg Chill over its range of diet foods?

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