Friday 7 October 2022

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Janet Boyle with 21.5, ahead of Stuart Bagnall on 19, Marion Fountayne on 18.5, George Mann on 18, Will Holmes on 17.5, Damon Wake and Robert Rea on 17 and Jayme Bryla and Toby Brown on 16. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson with 23, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 21, Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 19, Three Legs drinkers Peter and Stacey on 18 and Lou and Joe Hart with Dan on 17. 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. 

Some of today's front pages

1. On Monday Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng tweeted that he was 'not proceeding' with the abolition of the higher tax rate of how much?
2. In her speech at the Conservative Party conference Prime Minister Liz Truss said: 'I have three priorities for our economy' and then repeated which word three times?
3. The founder of the pop group M People, Michael Pickering, said he was ‘very angry’ when Prime Minister Liz Truss walked on stage at the Tory conference to which song?
4. Liz Truss’s conference speech was disrupted by Greenpeace activists who held up a yellow banner with what question written on it?
5. Liz Truss told the Conservative Party conference: 'I stand here today as the first prime minister of our country to have gone to …' Where?
6. Daniel Grainger, a young Conservative chairman, apologised for referring to Birmingham as what on the eve of the party's conference in the city?
7. Prime Minister Liz Truss met leaders from the EU, Turkey, Norway and the Balkans at the first European Political Community which was held in which city?
8. Buckingham Palace said King Charles, f
ollowing advice given to him by Prime Minister Liz Truss, would not attend which event next month?
9. Which newspaper apologised after it mistakenly used a picture of an American banker but saying it was Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng on its website?
10. American President Joe Biden responded to Russia’s threat to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine by saying: 'I don’t think there’s any such thing as the ability to easily (use) a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with ___.’ What is the missing word?
11. Panya Khamrab, 34, who killed 37 people, most of them children, in a gun and knife attack at a nursery school in Thailand, had been sacked from his job as what last year?
12. Why was Thomas Cashman, 34, in the headlines?
13. At least 125 people died in a crush at a football match on which island?
14. King Charles conferred city status on which former town saying it would 'gladden my dear mother’s heart’?
15. How was 65-year-old Ann Dunn from Liverpool killed?
16. A Delaware judge gave billionaire Elon Musk until 5pm on October 28 to do what?
17. American President Joe Biden announced he was to pardon thousands of Americans convicted of what?
18. Country singer Loretta Lynn, who died aged 90, had a hit record with the same name as her autobiography and an Oscar-nominated film about her life? What were all three called?
19. An inscribed copy of which Jane Austen novel became the most expensive of the author’s works ever sold after being bought for £375,000?
20. Who was ordered by West Oxfordshire district council to shut down his restaurant and cafe as they were 'visually intrusive and harmful’ to the area?
21. Author JK Rowling tweeted a picture of herself in a T-shirt that named who as a 'destroyer of women's rights’?
22. Yalemzerf Yehualaw, 23, became the youngest woman to do what?
23. Who became the first footballer to score three successive Premier League home hat-tricks?
24. Sara Arfaoui, an Italian model, was told to 'get out more' after claiming food in which English city was ‘horrible' and 'all frozen’?
25. University student Tom Stevenson, 21, recorded the highest ever score of 154 points on which programme?

Answers here

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