The top scorers in last week’s quiz were Toby Brown and Marguerite Turner with 21, just ahead of Robert Rea and Gavin Devine on 18, Joe Curtis 17 and Ed Mortimer and Stuart Bagnall 16.
Simon, Sue and Will Cole were the top team with 22. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe scored 20, Maura and Phil Parsons 19, Three Legs drinkers Bryan, Heather, Peter and Stacey and Team Swindle scored 18. Here is this week's quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's events. Give it a go and see if you can beat Clara's score.
Today's front pages
1. Social reforms, including a rise in National Insurance, were passed by the Commons with 248 MPs, including five Tories, voting against and how many voting for?
2. National Insurance is to go up from 12 per cent to what, starting in April 2022, to fund health and social care?
3. What was the name of Prince Charles’s aide who stepped down from his role as chief executive of The Prince's Foundation following claims that he helped a wealthy Saudi businessman secure an honour?
4. The NHS is hiring dozens of new executives with the top jobs carrying salaries of 80 per cent more than what the Prime Minister earns? What was the top advertised salary?
5. French interior minister Gerald Darmanin vowed to block the UK's plan to withhold cash over Channel crossings by migrants by saying: 'France will accept no practices contrary to the Law of the Sea, and no financial ___.’ What is the missing word?
6. Which company announced it wanted 29 per cent of its partners and directors to have a 'working class’ background by 2030?
7. The uplift to universal credit and tax credits of how much per week, which was introduced in April 2020 at the start of the pandemic, is due to be withdrawn in October?
8. People in Scotland will need proof they have been fully vaccinated before they can enter nightclubs and other large venues from what date?
9. Britain’s Emma Raducanu, 18, will be the first qualifier to reach a Grand Slam final tomorrow (Saturday). How many sets did she drop on her way to the US Open final?
10. What is the name of the leading scientist behind the Oxford vaccine for Covid-19 who said she does not support a widespread booster jab campaign in the UK as immunity is 'lasting well’?
11. The Taliban declared total victory in Afghanistan and released a video of their flag above the governor’s house after the fall of the last resistance in which province?
12. What appeared on Big Ben’s restored clock face for the first time in 90 years?
13. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson admitted confusing footballer Marcus Rashford with which other sportsman?
14. Team GB won 41 golds at the Paralympics but what position did they finish in the overall medals table?
15. A female deputy head teacher at a primary school in which English town was charged with facilitating the rape of a girl aged under 13?
16. No 10 Downing Street condemned the 'absurd airbrushing' of whose full name from the charity set up in his memory and urged its bosses to reverse the decision?
17. Baroness Lawrence, Paul Gambaccini, Harvey Proctor and Lady Brittan were among the signatories of a letter to Boris Johnson calling for whose resignation?
18. A football match between which two countries was called off after health authority officials went on to the pitch over an alleged coronavirus breach by England-based players? Half a point for each team.
19. England's fifth Test due to start today (Friday) at which ground was cancelled after staff tested positive for Covid-19?
20. Whose autobiography, Hear Me Out, which detailed 'my story, my words, my life’, candidly discussed her cancer battle?
21. Adverts featuring which comedian were axed by the Scottish Government because of her offensive tweets about black people?
22. TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson held a meeting with Oxfordshire villagers over concerns about the traffic created by his shop in the Clarkson's Farm TV show. What is the name of the shop?
23. Who escorted disabled schoolgirl Felicity Warburton, 16, to her prom in Worcester to show bullies that ‘they can’t hurt her anymore’?
24. Indie-soul singer Arlo Parks, 21, won the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album. What is it called?
25. The best serial drama performance award at the National Television Awards was won by actress Mollie Gallagher for her role as Nina Lucas in which TV series?
15. A female deputy head teacher at a primary school in which English town was charged with facilitating the rape of a girl aged under 13?
16. No 10 Downing Street condemned the 'absurd airbrushing' of whose full name from the charity set up in his memory and urged its bosses to reverse the decision?
17. Baroness Lawrence, Paul Gambaccini, Harvey Proctor and Lady Brittan were among the signatories of a letter to Boris Johnson calling for whose resignation?
18. A football match between which two countries was called off after health authority officials went on to the pitch over an alleged coronavirus breach by England-based players? Half a point for each team.
19. England's fifth Test due to start today (Friday) at which ground was cancelled after staff tested positive for Covid-19?
20. Whose autobiography, Hear Me Out, which detailed 'my story, my words, my life’, candidly discussed her cancer battle?
21. Adverts featuring which comedian were axed by the Scottish Government because of her offensive tweets about black people?
22. TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson held a meeting with Oxfordshire villagers over concerns about the traffic created by his shop in the Clarkson's Farm TV show. What is the name of the shop?
23. Who escorted disabled schoolgirl Felicity Warburton, 16, to her prom in Worcester to show bullies that ‘they can’t hurt her anymore’?
24. Indie-soul singer Arlo Parks, 21, won the 2021 Mercury Prize for her debut album. What is it called?
25. The best serial drama performance award at the National Television Awards was won by actress Mollie Gallagher for her role as Nina Lucas in which TV series?
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