Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Janet Boyle and Robert Rea with 21, just ahead of Marguerite Turner, Toby Brown and Stuart Bagnall on 20. Ed Mortimer scored 19.5, Liz Gerard 19, Jayme Bryla 18 and Gavin Devine and Jo Wadsworth 17. The Roberts Family were the top team with 23. Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 22, Maura and Phil Parsons 21 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 18. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the events of the last five days. Give it a go and let me know your score.

A selection of today's front pages

1. Sue Gray's report into lockdown parties said that, of the 16 events that fell within her remit, how many were being investigated by the Metropolitan police?
2. In an ill-tempered session following the Prime Minister's statement on the lockdown parties, who was ordered by the Speaker to leave the chamber after saying Boris Johnson was a liar?
3. Tory MP Aaron Bell told Boris Johnson in the Commons how he attended his grandmother's funeral, didn’t hug his siblings or parents, read a eulogy and made the three-hour drive home. He finished by saying: 'Does the Prime Minister think I am a ___?’ What is the missing word?
4. Speaking in the Commons, former Prime Minister Theresa May laid out three possibilities for the lockdown breaches, saying that Boris Johnson had either not read the rules, didn't understand what they meant or what other reason?
5. After Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer responded to Sue Gray’s report, Boris Johnson called him 'a former director of public prosecutions, who spent more time prosecuting ___ and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile.’ What is the missing word?
6. What is the name of Boris Johnson's head of policy who resigned over the Jimmy Savile remark, saying it was an 'inappropriate and partisan reference to a horrendous case of child sex abuse’?
7. Which of these Tory MPs has NOT gone on the record to withdraw their support for the Prime Minister? a) Tobias Ellwood

b) Nadine Dorries c) David Davis d) Andrew Mitchell
8. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak made a commitment to go ahead with the 1.25 percentage point increase in National Insurance in a joint article written for which newspaper?
9. Energy regulators announced the price cap on bills will rise by an average of how much (in pounds), taking a typical annual bill to £1,971?
10. At a joint press conference in Kiev, Boris Johnson gave a message to Russia, saying a military incursion into Ukraine would be three types of disaster - a political disaster was one, what were the other two? Half a point for each.
11. What did Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots order to come to an end from midnight on Thursday?
12. What is the name of the First Minister of Northern Ireland who resigned after 231 days in the post?
13. Three people were killed and thousands of homes were without power in Scotland and the North of England after two back-to-back storms hit the UK. What were their names? Half a point for each.
14. Manchester United said that fans wanting to exchange what at the club shop will be able to do so for free?
15. Why did author Val McDermid withdraw her support and sponsorship of Raith Rovers football club and two directors and the captain of the women's team resign?
16. Home Office statistics showed that in the 12 months between April 2020 and 2021 only five per cent of what type of criminals were brought to court?
17. Actress Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from an ABC talk show in America and apologised after saying what was 'not about race’?
18. A British woman, found guilty of fabricating a claim that she was gang-raped, saw her conviction overturned by which country’s supreme court?
19. Footballer Christian Eriksen signed for Brentford after being forced to leave Inter Milan because of what rule that applies in Italy but not in England?
20. Why did Masked Singer judges Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke walk off the US show in protest?
21. Which country banned the selective breeding of British Bulldogs and Cavalier King Charles Spaniels after a court ruled it was cruel and resulted in health problems?
22. Actor Leonard Fenton, who died aged 95, was best known for playing Dr Harold Legg from 1985 to 2019 in which television programme?

23. Which company bought the popular online game Wordle from its creator Josh Wardle for a price 'in the low seven figures’?
24. Where did a panda called Bing Dwen Dwen and a child called Shuey Rhon Rhon make an appearance this morning (Friday)?
25. Who will replace Phillip Schofield as host of this Sunday’s Dancing On Ice after he announced he was isolating with Covid?

Answers here