Friday 4 August 2023

It's newsquiz time

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann on 22, ahead of Janet Boyle and Toby Brown on 20.5, Marion Fountayne and Tony Smith on 20, Marguerite Turner on 19 and Robert Rea on 18. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons on 22, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 20 and Our Peter, Jackie, Joe and Sarah with 19. 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. 

Today's front pages

1. The Bank of England raised interest rates to a 15-year high of what per cent - the 14th increase in a row?
2. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the decision to grant 100 new what, saying they would support thousands of jobs and it was 'the right thing to do’?
3. After the Fire Brigades Union said it was planning to write to the Government about safety concerns, a Home Office source said there would be delays in the use of what?
4. What is the name of the MP who, after being suspended for breaking Covid lockdown rules, lost her seat in Rutherglen and Hamilton West after constituents signed a petition to remove her from office?
5. Home Office sources said small boat crossings by migrants were expected to surge in August for what reason?
6. The Court of Appeal ruled that what counted as open-air recreation and should be once again allowed on Dartmoor?
7. As part of a plan by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, tax was increased on alcohol, based on its strength, which meant that the price of a bottle of 12 per cent wine went up by how much?
8. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 54 people in which country?
9. Five people were arrested after Greenpeace activists climbed on to what building on Thursday?
10. Which retailer warned that it was on the brink of collapse, putting around 12,000 jobs at 400 stores in the UK at risk?
11. Teacher strikes ended in England after all four unions in dispute with the Government accepted a pay rise of what per cent?
12. Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in a Washington DC court to conspiring to overturn what?
13. British mother-of-ten Miriam Posen was killed in a three-car crash in which country?
14. Costa Coffee became embroiled in a diversity row after featuring a transgender person who was displaying what? 
15. French daredevil Remi Lucidi died after falling off the 68th floor of a skyscraper where?
16. Retired British miner David Hunter, 76, who suffocated his terminally ill wife after she 'begged him to’ was freed from jail in which country?
17. NFL legend and seven-times Super Bowl champion Tom Brady became a minority owner of which English football club?
18. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife announced they were separating after 18 years, following 'meaningful and difficult conversations’? What is his wife’s name?
19. Which TV chef was asked to change his behaviour after ITV received complaints about his treatment of production staff?
20. Strictly Come Dancing judge Anton Du Beke revealed that he once spent three days in hospital after being stabbed by who?
21. A woman filed a police report claiming she was hit by a microphone hurled into the crowd at a Las Vegas concert by which singer?
22. England’s women progressed to the knockout stage of the Women’s World Cup by beating China. What was the score?
23. The Three Little Birds Bakery said it had declined a request to make a cake and 100 cupcakes for which celebrity’s birthday in return for exposure on social media?
24. Which English sportsman enjoyed ‘a fairytale ending’ to his international career?
25. Jess and Sammy were winners of what?


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