Friday 26 January 2024

Test your knowledge with the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Toby Brown with 22.5, just ahead of George Mann and Robert Rea on 22, Janet Boyle on 21.5, Johnny Jenkins on 20 and Jon Ball on 18. The top team was the Queen’s Head drinkers Amanda, Kevin, Nicky, Les, Peter and Stacey with 22.5, narrowly ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons with 22. Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Neil and Jo Benson scored 20.5, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19 and Thom and Rosie 15.5. 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. 

Today's front-pages

1. What is the name of the former Cabinet minister who called for his party to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister or be 'massacred' in the General Election?
2. The former Cabinet minister who called for Rishi Sunak to be replaced told the BBC: 'No one likes that guy that’s shouting __ but I suspect that people will be even less happy if we hit the __.’ What is the missing word?
3. The House of Lords voted by 214 to 171 to not ratify what?
4. The head of the Army, General Sir Patrick Sanders said Britain should train a '__ army' ready to fight a war on land in the future? What is the missing word?
5. Messages revealed to the COVID inquiry showed that Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon described ex PM Boris Johnson as what during the pandemic?
6. Paranoid schizophrenic Valdo Calocane was sentenced to indefinite detention in a high-security hospital after randomly killing two students and a caretaker during a knife rampage in which city?
7. According to the Hamas-run health ministry how many people have been killed in Gaza since Israel's offensive began?
8. A health charity warned that almost 10 million people in England can no longer access the free removal of what on the NHS?
9. An Ofcom consultation document on the future of the postal service, led Downing Street to say: 'The Prime Minister would not countenance seeing __ deliveries scrapped.’ What is the missing word?
10. With Jocelyn causing chaos, how many named storms have now hit the UK this season - equalling the record?
11. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, leaving who as Donald Trump’s only significant Republican rival?
12. Which country become the fifth to land a spacecraft on the moon?
13. Alabama executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith using what?
14. Which retailer dropped an advert for school uniforms after it was accused of sexualising young children?
15. Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock - which shows how symbolically close the world is to Armageddon - at how many seconds to midnight?
16. Who announced he was quitting his job saying he was 'running out of energy' and 'I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again'?
17. Who said on Instagram: 'Naturally another cancer diagnosis has been a shock, but I'm in good spirits and grateful for the many messages of love and support?’
18. German music producer Frank Farian, who died aged 82, was founder of which disco band who had hit singles including Daddy Cool, Rasputin and Rivers of Babylon?
19. Actress Reese Witherspoon caused an online stir by sharing a TikTok video in which she enjoyed a 'chococinno' made of what topped with coffee, chocolate and salted caramel syrups?
20. Which sporting personality said he would 'swap eyes' with his son if it was possible to help the teenager see again?
21. Oppenheimer was shortlisted in how many categories for next month’s Oscars - the most nominations for a single film since 2018?
22. The second leg semi-finals of the Carabao Cup were played this week, meaning which two football teams will meet in the final on February 25? Half a point for each?
23. Actor Tom Hollander told how he was mistakenly sent a seven-figure bonus for a role in a film he wasn't in. What was the film?
24. The BBC pulled an episode of which TV programme from iPlayer after concerns were raised about ‘extravagant claims’ for health products?
25. Which singer-songwriter received seven Brit Award nominations, a new record for one artist in a single year?

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