Friday, 18 June 2021

It's time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were MailOnline trainees Izzy Baldwin and Chay Quinn with 20, well ahead of Toby Brown and Jayme Bryla on 16 and Gavin Devine 15. The Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey, Nicky and Les were the top team with 19, just ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 18. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s events. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages


1. At a Downing Street briefing Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the delay of ‘freedom day’, saying: 'I'm pretty confident that July 19 will be a ___ date and we will be able to take things forward from there.’ What is the missing word?
2. Former aide Dominic Cummings, in his blog, claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson had branded Health Secretary Matt Hancock’ 'totally f***ing hopeless' and considered giving some of his responsibilities to who?
3. Who did Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison tell they 'were quite the hit’ at the G7 summit in Cornwall?
4. Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, the presidents of the US and Russia, had three-hour talks in which city, where they said they 'spoke the same language’ but that 'disagreements were stated’?
5. What did Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says 'sends shockwaves through British politics’?
6. After a Government review, who did Justice Secretary Robert Buckland apologise to, saying: 'The first thing I think I need to say is, sorry - it's not good enough.'
7. Paul Givan was appointed to what political position?
8. Belgium players stopped play in what minute of the game against Denmark in their Euro 2020 match to acknowledge Christian Eriksen, who collapsed with a cardiac arrest on Saturday?
9. The chairman of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, Sir John Saunders, published his first report highlighting security failures including two British Transport Police officers who took a two-hour break to get what type of food?
10. Martin Hockridge, 57, was charged with a public order offence, after footage online showed which BBC journalist being confronted and chased by protesters in Whitehall?
11. An independent inquiry into the murder of private detective Daniel Morgan described what organisation as 'institutionally corrupt’?
12. Vodafone, IKEA, Nivea, Kopparberg, Grolsch, the Open University and Octopus Energy were among brands said to have to considered withdrawing their advertising from what?
13. Dame Sharon White, chairman of which retailer, told an education commission that young people at the company’s stores lacked basic literacy and numeracy skills and that it had to provide basic catch-up classes?
14. Corinna Smith, 59, was found guilty at Chester Crown Court of 'brutally and painfully' murdering her husband of 38 years? How did she kill him?
15. A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to what after CCTV footage on the Buxted FC's twitter account went viral?
16. As part of its efforts to reflect today’s values in its blue plaques, English Heritage acknowledged the 'racism, xenophobia and lack of literary merit’ in whose writing?
17. What three letters connected Manchester City winger Raheem Sterling, singers Alison Moyet and Engelbert Humperdinck, and Judge Rinder this week?
18. Waitrose announced it would be dropping which name from a brand of lime leaves over concerns the word had historically been used as a racial slur in South Africa?
19. Teams at Euro 2020 were warned they could face fines if their players did what at news conferences?
20. Wales almost guaranteed their place in the knockout stages of Euro 2020 with a draw and a win against which two teams? Half a point for each.
21. A man who was arrested after parachuting into the Allianz Arena in Munich before France's win over Germany at Euro 2020 had Greenpeace and what other three words written on his parachute?
22. Which 1970s disco classic became the Tartan Army’s unofficial national anthem ahead of Scotland's Euro 2020 game against England at Wembley? 

23. An endangered bird, known as an Egyptian ___, which has not been seen in the UK since 1868 was spotted on the Isles of Scilly this week. What is the missing word?
24. DC Comics vetoed a sex scene between which two characters in an HBO cable TV spin-off series Harley Quinn? Half a point for each character?
25. Who made about $100m (£72million) when he sold his back catalogue and his future recordings to Warner Music?

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