The top team was Bruce and Sarah Hayward with 18, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and Maura and Phil Parsons who both scored 17.5. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about he week. Give it a go and let me know your score.
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2. Which senior politician, who was postal affairs minister in the coalition government from 2010 to 2012, was accused of 'airbrushing his actions’ in the handling of the Post Office IT scandal?
3. Ex-Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw told the inquiry that it was incorrect that investigators 'behaved like __ __ looking to collect their bounty with the threats and lies’. What are the two missing words?
4. US and UK strikes by air and sea targeted 16 Houthi positions including command centres, munitions depots and air defence systems in which country?
5. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak travelled to Kyiv to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as the UK announced it would provide how much in military aid to Ukraine over the coming year?
6. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps’s request that who should justify their existence led to Lieutenant Colonel Ewen Southby-Tailyour saying his remarks were 'highly alarming’ and former head of the Royal Navy, Admiral Lord West, describing them as 'extraordinary and dangerous’?
7. Which European country's civil defence minister warned it could soon face the prospect of war and urged citizens to join voluntary defence organisations in preparation for a potential armed conflict?
8. Scientists at the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said 2023 was the hottest year in history with earth being how many degrees centigrade hotter than the period before the mass burning of fossil fuels?
9. The US aviation regulator grounded 171 Boeing 737 Max 9s after part of a plane, operated by which airline, fell off?
10. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic said that its US lunar lander had 'no chance' of making a soft landing on the moon for what reason?
11. Actor David Soul, best known for his role in the television series Starsky & Hutch and who died at the age of 80, had two No 1 hits in the UK in the 1970s. Name either of them.
12. What nickname was given to German footballer Franz Beckenbauer, who died aged 78, who won the World Cup as captain in 1974 and manager in 1990?
13. When Wales and Lions legend JPR Williams, who died aged 74, retired from rugby he resurrected his career as what?
14. The RAC called on the Government to commission an independent study into what, after research found 85 per cent of drivers affected believe the problem is getting worse?
15. Gabriel Attal was named as France's youngest Prime Minister in modern history. How old is he?
16. Armed gangsters stormed a television station during a live broadcast, prompting which country’s president to declare a state of 'internal armed conflict’?
17. The Government defended spending nearly £27,000 on what during the Covid pandemic?
18. The parents of Jonathan Udall, 31, from Brighton are to receive a £79million payout after his death. How and where was he killed?
19. Why did Arsenal players wear an all-white kit at home for the first time in the club's history against Liverpool in the FA Cup?
20. Former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson revealed he had been diagnosed with cancer of what and in a 'best-case' scenario had about a year left to live?
21. Which singer found his wife hanged at their home in Gloucestershire?
22. Which actor urged the Government to ban machetes and zombie knives as he launched a campaign called Don't Stop Your Future?
23. Singer FKA twigs accused the Advertising Standards Authority of 'double standards' after an advert for which brand was banned for presenting her as a 'stereotypical sexual object’?
24. The Prince of Wales surprised rugby league legends Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield by awarding them with their CBEs in which city?
25. Hollywood actress Gillian Anderson stunned fans by stepping out to the Golden Globes in a striking gown embroidered with hundreds of what?
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