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The top online scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Marguerite Turner with 22, ahead of Enid Shelmerdine on 21, Stuart Bagnall 20.5, Robert Rea 20, Liz Gerard 19, Jayme Bryla and Chay Quinn 18, Toby Brown 16.5 and Hilary Scott 15.
The top team was the Cornwall Collective of Adam Batstone, Lucy Thorpe, Phil and Maura Parsons and David Kohn with 22, just ahead of Team Swindle on 21.5 and the Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey and LA guest Melinda on 21, Neil and Jo Benson 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17. Here is this week’s score. Give it a go and see if you can beat Maddy’s score.
1. Two hours after the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield by-election results were announced, Oliver Dowden resigned from what position in the Conservative Party?
2. What is the name of the Liberal Democrat MP who overturned a 24,000-plus Tory majority to be elected in the Tiverton & Honiton by-election?
3. What did Prime Minister Boris Johnson do at 6am in Rwanda after hearing the by-election results and before receiving Oliver Dowden’s resignation?
4. Labour MPs, including Rebecca Long-Bailey, Rachael Maskell, Ian Byrne and Beth Winter, ignored their leader’s advice and joined the RMT picket line at which station?
5. Piers Morgan, said RMT leader Mick Lynch's Facebook profile picture suggested he aligned himself with an 'evil, criminal, terrorist mastermind’. Who did Lynch use as his profile picture?
6. Unite members voted by 94.7 per cent and GMB members by 95 per cent at which company in favour of industrial action during the summer?
7. The head of the Kremlin’s security council threatened which country with 'serious consequences' after its railway refused to allow some Russian goods to cross through?
8. An earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in which country?
9. According to the UK Health Security Agency, traces of what virus have been found in sewage samples in London which are ‘likely’ to be transmitting within the community?
10. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital on Monday for what 10 Downing Street said was a minor and routine operation on his what?
11. The way Metropolitan Police handled the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in East London, who were murdered by which serial killer, is to be reinvestigated by the police watchdog?
12. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the decision to drop works by which two writers from the GCSE curriculum was ‘cultural vandalism’? Half a point for each.
13. Olympic synchronised swimmer Anita Alvarez came within seconds of death when she fainted in the pool during the 2022 World Championships in which city?
14. Who said this week that she didn't 'feel she had ever been happy' but that she 'finally feels free' after years of living a 'secret’ life?
15. One of the UK's biggest suppliers of what food was fined more than £1.5million at Truro Crown Court after admitting killing fish, pollution and odour charges?
16. Who said: 'I can’t tell you how proud I am of my sport for doing the science, asking the athletes/coaches and standing up for fair sport for females’?
17. Golfer Matt Fitzpatrick, 27, who became only the third Englishman since 1924 to win the US Open, is from which city?
18. Research from Brazil, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that people unable to do what for ten seconds were 84 per cent more likely to die early?
19. Who announced his resignation, saying: 'I am sad that we cannot continue this journey together because I believe that this extraordinary group will make the country proud’?
20. Police in Belfast interviewed comedian Joe Lycett after a complaint was made about a joke which featured which animal?
21. What species of freshwater fish, believed to be the world’s largest and weighing 661lb, was caught by a fisherman in Cambodia?
22. Who claimed that his ‘darkish skin’ meant that he had 'pretty much racist abuse’ when he was a schoolboy?
23. Kate Bush said that 'the whole world’s gone’ as her 1985 song topped the UK charts. What is the song called?
24. Stormzy received an honorary degree from which university for 'outstanding achievement in the field of higher education, philanthropy and widening participation’?
25. The youngest and oldest ever headliners at Glastonbury will take to the Pyramid Stage on consecutive nights this weekend. Name them. Half a point for each.
The top team was the Cornwall Collective of Adam Batstone, Lucy Thorpe, Phil and Maura Parsons and David Kohn with 22, just ahead of Team Swindle on 21.5 and the Three Legs drinkers Peter, Stacey and LA guest Melinda on 21, Neil and Jo Benson 19.5 and Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 17. Here is this week’s score. Give it a go and see if you can beat Maddy’s score.
1. Two hours after the Tiverton & Honiton and Wakefield by-election results were announced, Oliver Dowden resigned from what position in the Conservative Party?
2. What is the name of the Liberal Democrat MP who overturned a 24,000-plus Tory majority to be elected in the Tiverton & Honiton by-election?
3. What did Prime Minister Boris Johnson do at 6am in Rwanda after hearing the by-election results and before receiving Oliver Dowden’s resignation?
4. Labour MPs, including Rebecca Long-Bailey, Rachael Maskell, Ian Byrne and Beth Winter, ignored their leader’s advice and joined the RMT picket line at which station?
5. Piers Morgan, said RMT leader Mick Lynch's Facebook profile picture suggested he aligned himself with an 'evil, criminal, terrorist mastermind’. Who did Lynch use as his profile picture?
6. Unite members voted by 94.7 per cent and GMB members by 95 per cent at which company in favour of industrial action during the summer?
7. The head of the Kremlin’s security council threatened which country with 'serious consequences' after its railway refused to allow some Russian goods to cross through?
8. An earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in which country?
9. According to the UK Health Security Agency, traces of what virus have been found in sewage samples in London which are ‘likely’ to be transmitting within the community?
10. Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital on Monday for what 10 Downing Street said was a minor and routine operation on his what?
11. The way Metropolitan Police handled the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in East London, who were murdered by which serial killer, is to be reinvestigated by the police watchdog?
12. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said the decision to drop works by which two writers from the GCSE curriculum was ‘cultural vandalism’? Half a point for each.
13. Olympic synchronised swimmer Anita Alvarez came within seconds of death when she fainted in the pool during the 2022 World Championships in which city?
14. Who said this week that she didn't 'feel she had ever been happy' but that she 'finally feels free' after years of living a 'secret’ life?
15. One of the UK's biggest suppliers of what food was fined more than £1.5million at Truro Crown Court after admitting killing fish, pollution and odour charges?
16. Who said: 'I can’t tell you how proud I am of my sport for doing the science, asking the athletes/coaches and standing up for fair sport for females’?
17. Golfer Matt Fitzpatrick, 27, who became only the third Englishman since 1924 to win the US Open, is from which city?
18. Research from Brazil, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that people unable to do what for ten seconds were 84 per cent more likely to die early?
19. Who announced his resignation, saying: 'I am sad that we cannot continue this journey together because I believe that this extraordinary group will make the country proud’?
20. Police in Belfast interviewed comedian Joe Lycett after a complaint was made about a joke which featured which animal?
21. What species of freshwater fish, believed to be the world’s largest and weighing 661lb, was caught by a fisherman in Cambodia?
22. Who claimed that his ‘darkish skin’ meant that he had 'pretty much racist abuse’ when he was a schoolboy?
23. Kate Bush said that 'the whole world’s gone’ as her 1985 song topped the UK charts. What is the song called?
24. Stormzy received an honorary degree from which university for 'outstanding achievement in the field of higher education, philanthropy and widening participation’?
25. The youngest and oldest ever headliners at Glastonbury will take to the Pyramid Stage on consecutive nights this weekend. Name them. Half a point for each.
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