Friday, 15 April 2022

Try the Good Friday newsquiz

Happy Good Friday to all you newsquizzers. It’s time to settle down with your chocolate eggs (or more traditionally your fish lunch) and test your knowledge of the week’s events. The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Nell Salvoni with 20, ahead of Janet Boyle on 19, Rachel Muir on 18, Marguerite Turner on 17 and Toby Brown and Will Pickworth on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 20. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Bruce and Sarah Hayward scored 17 and the Three Legs drinkers Heather, Bryan and Jim got 15. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual 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, his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak were each issued with a fixed penalty notice and fined how much by the Met Police for breaking lockdown rules in June 2020?
2. Boris Johnson apologised for breaking lockdown rules but said the gathering in the Cabinet Room to mark his birthday was ‘brief' and lasted less than how many minutes?
3. What is the name of the Tory peer who resigned as justice minister after Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak were given fixed-penalty notices for breaking their own Covid laws?
4. What did Prime Minister Boris Johnson say would 'save countless lives’ but shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper describe as 'unworkable, unethical and extortionate’ and Ian Blackford, SNP’s Westminster leader, say was 'evil'?
5. On a surprise visit to Kyiv, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was presented with what symbol of resistance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?
6. The US, EU and UK condemned an attack on what type of building in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk in which around 50 people were killed?
7. What is the name of Russia's warship that was sunk in the Black Sea? 
8. Whitehall launched an inquiry to find out who leaked the revelations about Rishi Sunak’s wife’s tax status with the chancellor’s team believing it was a Labour-supporting official known as 'red ___’. What is the missing word?
9. Why did the Conservatives expel Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan from the party?
10.
Operation ___, designed to reduce congestion on the M20 by making lorries heading to Dover queue on one side of the motorway, were scaled back. What is the missing word?
11. A 14-year-old boy drowned and his father was rescued after reportedly being abandoned on a diving trip by a drug-taking captain in which country?
12. A Virginia court convicted British-born El Shafee Elsheikh of being part of a hostage-taking gang who beheaded three Americans, two British aid workers and two Japanese men. What was the gang called?
13. Who was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of four charges under the Insolvency Act after being accused of hiding millions of pounds worth of assets to avoid paying his debts?
14. Why was 62-year-old American Frank James in the headlines?
15. An Old Bailey jury took how many minutes to convict Ali Harbi Ali of the murder of MP Sir David Amess?
16. Nottingham Crown Court was told that a burglar threatened to cut off former England footballer Ashley Cole’s fingers using what during a break-in at his home?
17. More than 340 people were killed as storms caused devastating floods in and around which city?
18. After being ousted by a vote of no confidence, who said: 'I was not dangerous when I was part of the government, but I will be more dangerous now?’
19. French President Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the elections with what per cent lead over Marine Le Pen? a) 3.4 per cent b) 4.6 per cent c) 5.8 per cent d) 7 per cent
20. Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo was advised to buy 14-year-old Everton fan Jake Harding a new what?
21. Actor Will Smith was banned from the Oscars and other Academy events for how many years for slapping comic Chris Rock at this year's ceremony?
22. Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk launched a bid to buy what for more than $43billion, saying he wanted to release its 'extraordinary potential’?
23. Who announced he was standing down, saying: 'It has been the most challenging decision I have had to make in my career but having discussed this with my family and those closest to me; I know the timing is right?’
24. After 20 years as Britain’s leading amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen bowed out with a Grand National win on which horse?
25. Who made a surprise visit to the Roost pub in Birmingham where he played pool, led a sing-along and pulled pints?


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