Friday 17 February 2023

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 22, ahead of Janet Boyle on 21, Antony Tiernan and Marguerite Turner on 20, Robert Rea on 18, Toby Brown on 17 and Gavin Devine on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons with 22, ahead of Bruce and Sarah Hayward on 18, Our Peter and Carole on 17 and Adam Batsone and Lucy Thorpe on 15. Here is this week’s quiz. 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. Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, announcing she was standing down, said: 'In my head and in my heart I know that time is now. That it is right for me, for my ___ and for the ___’. What are the two missing words? Half a point for each.
2. Nicola Sturgeon was the longest-serving First Minister in Scottish history, holding office for how many years?
3. Who commented on Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation with a social media post that said: 'Good riddance to failed woke extremist Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland! This crazed leftist symbolises everything wrong with identity politics’?
4. Home Secretary Suella Braverman raised concerns with Lancashire Police after they revealed that missing mother Nicola Bulley had 'significant issues' with what?
5. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that who would not be standing as a Labour party candidate at the next General Election?
6. Two 15-year-olds were charged with the murder of 16-year-old Brianna Ghey, who was found stabbed to death in a park in which town?
7. British Gas owner Centrica posted a profit of how much for 2022, more than three times that of the year before?
8. Which bank announced profits of £5.1billion before tax in its 2022 results - the highest since 2007 and an increase on the £3.8billion profit in 2021?
9. A teenage boy, who was rescued from a flooded Thai cave in 2018, died after being found in his dormitory at a football academy in which UK town?
10. Three students were killed and five others critically wounded when a gunman attacked which American university?
11. The Met Office issued yellow warnings as a storm with what name brought 80mph winds to almost all of Scotland and North-East England?
12. The UK's Head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Matt Jukes, said his unit had stopped how many late-stage terror attacks in 2022 - describing them as goal-line saves?
13. The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the UK was set to fall behind which country as NATO’s foremost military power in Europe?
14. Which soft drink vanished from the UK after 48 years and has been rebranded as a new type of Fanta?
15. Who cancelled visits to Elmhurst Ballet School in Birmingham and a library in Telford because of Covid?
16. She shot to prominence with roles in Fantastic Voyage and One Million Years BC and won a Golden Globe for her role in 1974's The Three Musketeers? Who is she?
17. Whose family announced he had frontotemporal dementia, saying it was a 'relief to finally have a clear diagnosis’?
18. Which team came from behind to win the Super Bowl for the second time in four years?
19. Who said he had donated around $1.95billion (£1.6billion) worth of shares to charity last year?
20. Love Island contestant Kaz Crossley was jailed in which country on suspicion of drug offences?
21. What lit up the sky over the English Channel early on Monday morning?
22. Which celebrity couple marked their first Valentine's Day as husband and wife by getting complementary tattoos?
23. Which Premier League manager joined the 100-club ... coaches sacked after less than 100 days in charge?
24. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were the latest celebrities to be ‘brutally’ lampooned by which animated television series?
25. Harry Styles won four Brit Awards but which two artists collected two? Half a point for each. 

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