It's newsquiz time ...

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Robert Rea with 21. Others on the leaderboard were Janet Boyle 20.5, Marguerite Turner and Marion Fountayne 20 and Gavin Devine 19 and Jayme Bryla 16.5. The top team was the Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey, Nicky and Les with 22, ahead of Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 21 and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Phil and Maura Parsons 19.5. Here’s 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. Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky became the first foreign leader to address the Commons and referenced Winston Churchill when he said: 'We will fight in the ___, in the ___, on the shores, in the streets.'? What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called a Russian air strike on what building in Mariupol a 'war crime’?
3. Under sanctions imposed by the Government which one of these can Chelsea FC still do: a) Sell tickets to home or away fans b) Agree new transfers or contracts c) Receive TV broadcasting revenues d) Sell merchandise at the stadium or online?
4. Tory MP Roger Gale, speaking in the Commons, said Home Secretary Priti Patel should resign because of an 'untruth’ when she claimed that what had been established?
5. Which country’s offer to provide Ukraine with MiG-29 fighter jets was rejected as 'not tenable' by America?
6. McDonald's joined the list of firms who stopped trading in Russia saying it was temporarily closing how many restaurants in the country?
7. A video of a young girl called Amelia singing which song while she hunkered down in a bomb shelter in Kyiv went viral?
8. Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak faced a lengthy ban for wearing what while on the podium at the Apparatus World Cup in Doha?
9. Why did photos of Lesia Ivashchenko and Valerii Filimonov make the headlines?
10. Which British sportsman pledged to donate his prize-money earnings for the rest of the year to help children affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
11. In her first meeting at Windsor Castle, since falling ill with Covid, the Queen posed in front of blue and yellow flowers, the colours of Ukraine, as she greeted which world leader?
12. What was former secretary Kate Emms referring to when she said: 'Stress, anxiety and loss of confidence sent me home on sick leave and affected how I saw myself and how I felt I was seen by family, friends and colleagues’?

13. Which musician was found guilty of assaulting the mother of his children by Wimbledon magistrates?
14. The wreck of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, which sank in Antarctica in 1915, was found at the bottom of the Weddell Sea? What is the ship’s name?
15. Which Lancashire-born actress, best known for playing nurse Gladys Emmanuel in the sit-com Open All Hours, died aged 82?
16. Two people were arrested and then released after a three-month-old girl was killed in a dog attack at the Ostler’s Plantation beauty spot in which county?

17. A 28-year-old man died after falling about 1,000ft down an icy slope at Red Burn on which mountain?
18. Which country raised the minimum age of sexual consent from 12 to 16 'in a bid to protect minors from rape and sexual abuse’?
19. One of the UK's largest courier firms, Hermes, announced it will be changing its name to what?

20. Why did Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel criticise the club's fans during their 4-0 win at Burnley?
21. Who shared photos on Instagram of cricketer Shane Warne, who died aged 52, along with the message: ‘I feel like the sun has gone behind a cloud forever. RIP my beloved Lionheart’?
22. Irish truck driver Desmond Wisley was charged with dangerous driving and criminal damage after doing what?

23. Scotland's first minister Nicola Sturgeon apologised, on International Women's Day, to an estimated 4,000 people who were executed from 1563 to 1736 after they had been accused of what?

24. Ed Sheeran was accused by songwriters Sami Chokri and Ross O'Donoghue's of copying parts of which song from their number Oh Why?
25. One of the UK's most-followed singers on TikTok, with 12 million followers, will perform his song Space Man at this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Turin. Who is he?

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