Friday 28 October 2022

Time to tackle the newsquiz

There were some very high scores posted in last week’s newsquiz. The top solo scorer was Sylvia Warne with an impressive maximum of 25. Marion Fountayne scored 22, Janet Boyle, Toby Brown and Gavin Devine all scored 21, Robert Rea and Stuart Bagnall 19, Marguerite Turner and Tony Brannon 18 and Tom Scotson 17. The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 24, just ahead of Lou, Joe, Sam and Dan, Maura and Phil Parsons and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe all on 23. Neil and Jo Benson and Andrew Everton and Matthew Jeffrey scored  21 and Our Peter, Sarah and Joe 19. Here is this week’s newsquiz on yet another busy news week. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. In her final statement as Prime Minister, Liz Truss ended by saying she knew that what kind of days lay ahead?
2. Rishi Sunak became the youngest UK Prime Minister since 1812. How old is he?
3. In his first speech as Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak paid tribute to his predecessor Liz Truss but added ' Some ___ were made. Not borne of ill will or bad intentions. Quite the opposite, in fact. But ___ nonetheless.’ What is the missing word?
4. New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been an MP for which constituency since 2015?
5. In Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet which one of these was not appointed to a previously held position? a) Simon Hart (chief whip) b) Ben Wallace (defence) c) James Cleverly (foreign), d) Suella Braverman (home).
6. Who is the new Education Secretary?
7. The Government’s fiscal plan, due to be delivered next Monday, will now be a full autumn statement by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on what date?
8. At his first Prime Minister’s Questions Rishi Sunak confirmed to Green Party leader Caroline Lucas that he would honour a manifesto commitment by 'reversing the green light' that Liz Truss had given to what?
9. Whose Cabinet appointment was described by Labour leader Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions as 'a grubby deal’?
10. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly advised LGBT people attending what to show 'a little bit of flex and compromise’ and 'respect the culture’ of the country?
11. Russia delivered a letter to the United Nations claiming that Ukraine was preparing to detonate what kind of bomb?
12. Around 15,000 protesters marched from Park Lane to Parliament Square in London on Saturday to demand what?
13. Who posted a video of himself carrying a sink and later tweeted ’the bird is freed’?
14. Two Just Stop Oil protesters smeared cake on what, saying: 'The demand is simple, just stop new oil and gas, it's a piece of cake’?
15. 
The Home Affairs Committee was told that around 10,000 men from which country had arrived in the UK on small boats this year?
16. Pope Francis warned against the dangers of what, saying it was a vice among some priests and nuns?
17. Which car, that has been in production for 46 years - including 12 as the best seller - will no longer be made from June next year?
18. Which company, known for its fashionable homeware, announced it was no longer taking orders from customers after an attempt to secure an 11th-hour rescue collapsed?
19. Where was a 'Jenga tower' replaced by a more 'solid and stable' if slightly smaller model?
20. Who was reported to be in danger of losing his billionaire status after being dropped by Adidas over an anti-Semitic rant?
21. Arsenal defender Pablo Marí was taken to hospital after being stabbed with five other people in a supermarket in which city?
22. The first coins featuring King Charles III, which will be in circulation from December, will be of what value?
23. Publisher Penguin Random House announced that the Duke of Sussex's memoir, which will be published on January 10, will be called what?
24. King Charles appeared in a one-off episode of which TV programme this week? 
25. The full line-up of ITV's I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here was announced with who, at 61, being the oldest contestant?

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