Elena wins the newsquiz with 19 points

The MailOnline trainees had another fascinating week in Kensington. They had sessions with acting showbusiness editor Rebecca Davison, senior reporter Mark Duell, travel editor Ted Thornhill, deputy Femail editor Steph Linning and executive news-editor Marianna Partasides. They were briefed on writing a personality profile, examined the Mail’s approach to pictures and wrote headlines on photo stories. The award for the best headlines went to Elena Salvoni and Eirian Prosser. They also had a legal session with assistant managing editor Paul Hutchinson and pitched stories to head of exclusives Dan Sanderson and head of sport Steven Fletcher. 

Trainee Summer Goodkind found a story about a Russian protester being fined for holding a sign that displayed only asterisks. Read it here.

Tom Scotson uncovered a video of a 13-year-old boy in India being savagely beaten for stealing a biscuit. Read it here. 

Eirian Prosser wrote a story about Oxford’s mayor, whose council tells people to ’take the train not the plane’ coming under fire for flying to a climate conference in France. Read it here. 

Alice Giddings found and wrote a story on cannabis worth £1.3million been grown in a snooker hall. Read it here. They are the first bylines of many.
We finished the week, as always, with the newsquiz. This week’s winner was Elena Salvoni with 19 points, ahead of Brooke Davies on 16.5 and Rachel Muir on 16. In last week's quiz the solo leaderboard saw Janet Boyle and Stuart Bagnall at the top with 21, followed by trainees Rachel on 20 and Elena on 18. Robert Rea and Toby Brown scored 16.5 and Marguerite Turner 16.
The top team was The Roberts Family with 21. A consortium of big-hitters Adam Batstone, Lucy Thorpe, Phil and Maura Parsons and David Kohn scored 19.5 and Three Legs drinkers Peter and Stacey 19. Here is this week’s quiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and see if you can beat Elena’s score. 

Today's front pages

1. In his Spring Statement Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the duty on fuel would be reduced by how much per litre for a year?
2. During the Spring Statement Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: 'Statistics published this morning show that inflation in February was ___’. What exact per cent did he give?
3. Reacting to the Spring Statement, Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said: ‘Mr Sunak has proved to be something of a fiscal ___.’ What is the missing word?
4. The Office for Budget Responsibility said living standards were expected to drop by 2.2 per cent this year the largest fall in a financial year since what decade?
5. Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson to not compare what to his country's fight against Russia?
6. Pro-Kremlin tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that almost how many Russian troops had been killed in the war in Ukraine — before deleting the numbers from its site?
7. Downing Street said that the Russian state was responsible for hoax video calls from someone pretending to be the Ukrainian prime minister to which two Cabinet ministers? Half a point for each.
8. Russia's space agency rejected claims, that three Russian cosmonauts boarding the International Space Station were supporting Ukraine, and issued a statement saying ‘sometimes ___ is just ___’. What is the missing word?
9. Why was Oxfordshire food project The Chippy Larder in the headlines?
10. Iryna, a children's doctor, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, showed the footage of the basement where pregnant women and new mothers were evacuated when she took over whose Instagram stories account?
11. The Old Bailey heard that Ali Harbi Ali, who is accused of murdering former MP Sir David Amess, had researched other MPs and had carried reconnaissance trips including six different visits to whose home?
12. Six people were killed and 40 people were injured after a car drove into a crowd of carnival-goers preparing for a traditional parade on Sunday in which country?
13. The Conservative Party spring conference was held in which town last weekend?
14. At a news conference in Westminster, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, speaking for the first time since her return from Iran asked: 'How many Foreign Secretaries does it take for someone to come home?’ What was the answer?
15. Prime Minister Boris Johnson backed calls by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps for the boss of P&O to step down after his ‘brazen’ law breaking. What is his name?
16. How many people were killed when a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 crashed into a mountain on Monday?
17. The prime minister of which country said it planned to pursue its 'true ambitions and destiny as an independent, developed, prosperous country’?
18. Free range eggs are no longer available to be sold in supermarkets, because of avian flu, and Defra said they must now be marketed as ‘___eggs’. What is the missing word?
19. Who celebrated a 'symbolic wedding’ with his bride Marta Fascina, 32, an MP in the Forza Italia party?
20. American computer scientist Stephen Wilhite, who died age 75, invented which internet file format in 1987?
21. The secret to 71-year-old Princess Anne's vitality, according to her daughter Zara, is that she always carries which fruit - with more vitamin C than an orange plus a large dose of vitamin K - in her handbag?
22. Who announced she was quitting at the age of 25 saying she was 'absolutely spent’ and physically had 'nothing more to give'?
23. European champions Italy will not be at the World Cup in Qatar after losing to which country?
24. What did 30-year-old Harpreet Kaur, the owner of a dessert parlour business called Oh So Yum, win?
25. The Concert for Ukraine, featuring Ed Sheeran, Nile Rodgers and Chic, Camila Cabello, Manic Street Preachers, Snow Patrol and Emeli Sandé, will be broadcast live on Tuesday from which city?

Answers here