Friday 22 October 2021

It's newsquiz time ...

The top scorer in last week's newsquiz was Rod Ardehali with 20.5, ahead of Toby Brown on 18, Robert Rea on 17.5, Stuart Bagnall on 16 and Jayme Bryla on 15. The top team was the Roberts Family with 21, ahead of Bruce and Sarah Hayward 19. Maura and Phil Parsons scored 18.5 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 15.5. Here is this week's newsquiz. There are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages


1. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the Queen had agreed that which town would be granted city status following the killing of MP Sir David Amess?
2. In the first PMQs after the killing of MP Sir David Amess, Boris Johnson committed to bringing which Bill back to the Commons 'before Christmas’?
3. Ali Harbi Ali was charged at Westminster Magistrates’ Court with murder and what other offence after the fatal stabbing of MP Sir David Amess?
4. The Government published its climate strategy which showed how the UK will meet its target to cut CO2 emissions to net zero by what year?
5. Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that thousands of households would be able to access grants worth £5,000 to replace what?
6. The Queen cancelled a two-day visit to where after doctors advised that she should 'rest for the next few days’?
7. At a Downing Street Press conference Health Secretary Sajid Javid said: 'Cases are rising, and they could go yet as high as ___ a day. We’re also seeing greater pressure on the NHS across the UK, approaching ___ hospitalisations per day.’ What are the two missing numbers? Half a point for each.
8. Which country announced that flights to and from the UK would be banned from yesterday (Thurs) due to soaring Covid-19 cases?
9. Who said that Conservative MPs didn’t need to wear masks during debates because the party's 'convivial, fraternal spirit’ meant they knew each other and were acting in line with Covid guidance?
10. America announced it would reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 33 countries, including the UK, on what date?
11. Actor Alec Baldwin accidentally shot dead a woman with a prop gun while filming a Western called what?
12. A statement from which former Labour MP, urging peers to back the Assisted Dying Bill and revealing that he was terminally ill, was read out in the House of Lords?
13. Colin Powell, who died aged 84, was the US's first African-American secretary of state and served the role under which president?
14. Two adults and two children were taken to hospital, and dozens were left homeless, after an explosion at a housing estate in which Scottish town?
15. A petition calling for compulsory searches at nightclubs was signed by more than 100,000 people, and Home Secretary Priti Patel asked police forces for an update, after reports of what?
16. Strictly Come Dancing contestant Tilly Ramsay criticised LBC radio host Steven Allen after he called her a ___ little thing’. What is the missing word?
17. The National Farmers’ Union said a trade deal with which country would 'damage the viability of many British farms in the years ahead’?
18. Penelope Jackson, 66, told jurors at Bristol Crown Court that she stabbed her husband to death after a row when she served what with steak on her birthday?
19. Who left his job saying: 'To never really be wanted, to feel that people wanted me to fail, to read people constantly saying I would fail, that I was useless, a fat waste of space, a stupid, tactically inept cabbage head’?
20. The Queen 'politely but firmly’ turned down which magazine award saying she did not believe she met the relevant criteria?
21. Rapper Kanye West will officially be known as what after a Los Angeles judge granted his name change request?
22. Which Channel 4’s fundraiser made more than £31million, the highest total since its launch in 2012?
23. Costa Rica, Indian company Takachar, a land-based coral farm in the Bahamas, the city of Milan and a Thai-German-Italian team all collected £1million as the first winners of which awards, founded by the Duke of Cambridge?
24. Who married his pregnant girlfriend Frida Andersson on Monday at Chelsea Register office?
25. A Worcestershire pub landlord is organising a night for people with what name after the Office for National Statistics showed no babies were given the name last year?

Answers here

2 comments:

  1. 18 this week..a surprise for Frida Andersson when she thought she was marrying Jamie and not Harry !

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