Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Tony Smith and Jayme Bryla both with 23. Marguerite Turner scored 22, Marion Fountayne and Gavin Devine 21, Robert Rea 20, Toby Brown and Stuart Bagnall 19, Rob Lawrence 18 and Andrew McFarlane 17.5. A special mention goes to Peter Cockerill who does the quiz each week and scored a personal best of 13. Good progress. The top team was the Roberts Family who, not for the first time, clocked up the maximum 25. The Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey and Les scored 22.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 21 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward 20.5. It has certainly been another momentous news week. 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. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. A week after the invasion began, Russia captured its first major city in Ukraine - a regional capital of 300,000 people on the Black Sea. What is the city’s name?

2. Russia and Belarus were among five countries who voted against the UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine. Name the other three. Half point for two, one point for all three.
3. Which European leader, after a 90-minute phone call with Vladimir Putin, said Russia wanted to seize all of Ukraine and that 'worse is to come'?
4. Thirteen Ukrainian border guards stationed on which remote island in the Black Sea, who told a Russian warship 'go f**k yourself’, were believed to have been killed but were later discovered to be captured?
5. Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear forces on high alert after comments by Nato representatives including which UK minister?
6. Russian forces seized Zaporizhzhia which is Europe’s largest what?
7. More than 400 Russian mercenaries, known by which name, are said to be operating in Kyiv with orders from the Kremlin to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government?
8. Russia said it will go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to appeal against which two decisions? Half a point for each.
9. Ukranian Sergiy Stakhovsky, who left his wife and children in Hungary, to fight against the Russian invasion of his home country is best known as what?
10. The UK, US, EU and Canada banned Russian banks’ access to Swift, which caused the Russian rouble to fall by almost 30 per cent against the US dollar. What does Swift stand for?
11. Russian Roman Abramovich announced he was selling Chelsea football club and setting up a charitable foundation with proceeds from the sale being donated to what cause?
12. Which company said its adverts would no longer appear around news bulletins on the Ukrainian conflict?
13. London commuters faced chaos with strikes over jobs, pensions and conditions by members of the RMT. What does RMT stand for?
14. What did 59-year-old nurse Paulette Hamilton win?
15. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority announced that MPs will receive a pay rise of how much this year, from April 1, increasing their salary to £84,144?
16. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock, in the Diary of a CEO podcast, insisted that he did not break Covid rules but did break ___  when he kissed his aide in his ministerial office. What is the missing word?
17. Which airline’s website and app went down for hours, causing flights to be cancelled and leaving passengers stuck on planes after landing?
18. Which Conservative MP, sacked from the cabinet in last September's reshuffle, is to receive a knighthood?
19. Jet2 became the first major airline to drop what?
20. Britain’s richest woman Denise Coates, the billionaire founder of which firm, took a £170million pay cut as the company’s growth stalled?

21. Which town, in an honour bestowed by the Queen, became England's 52nd city?
22. Which cricketer, who held the world record with 355 dismissals at the time of his retirement and made 96 Test appearances for Australia, died aged 74?
23. How many penalties were scored in the Carabao Cup final shootout between Liverpool and Chelsea?

24. John Lewis announced it was ditching which slogan, after almost a century, saying it no longer 'fit with how customers shop today as more purchases are made online’?
25. Who will be taking to the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury in June days after his 80th birthday?

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