Friday 26 July 2024

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was George Mann with 22 just ahead of Marion Fountayne and Robert Rea on 21, Toby Brown and the Rev Leon on 20 and Kirsty Lewis on 17. The top team was Neil and Jo Benson on 22, ahead of Maura and Phil Parsons on 21, Bruce and Sarah Hayward and Our Peter, Jackie, Mark and Ali on 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and Thom, Tim and Craig on 16. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week's news. Give it a go and let me know your score. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. How many Labour MPs had the whip suspended for six months after voting against the Government on an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap?
2. Who was the first candidate to officially declare that they will be a contender for the Tory leadership?
3. The Home Office announced it was ending the use of what as part of an expected £7.7 billion of savings in asylum costs over the next ten years?
4. Eluned Morgan, 57, is to make history by becoming the first woman to hold which role?
5. Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi approached backers to finance a £600million bid to buy what?
6. How old is Vice-President Kamala Harris who became the Democrat's nominee for president, replacing 81-year-old Joe Biden?
7. Donald Trump reacted to Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race by issuing a statement on Truth Social which said: ‘__ Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve - and never was!’ What is the missing word?
8. Vice-President Kamala Harris missed an address by who to Congress on Wednesday, choosing instead to give a speech at a sorority conference in Indianapolis?
9. In the BBC’s list of salaries for 2023-24 which presenter was third, behind Gary Lineker and Zoe Ball, with a salary of £475,000?
10. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike promised to improve how it tests software after millions of PCs displayed what was known as ‘__ screens of death’. What is the missing word?
11. A police officer was suspended after footage on social media showed a man being kicked in the head and stamped on at which airport?
12. Six people, including two children, were killed in a crash on the A61 between which two Yorkshire towns? Half a point for each.
13. Figures released by the Department for Transport revealed that what had reached its highest level for 13 years?
14. In its cost of living report, the Competition and Markets Authority said last year people in the UK were overcharged £1.6 billion for what?
15. Lt Col Mark Teeton was stabbed near Brompton Barracks in which English county?
16. Just Stop Oil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were found guilty of criminal damage at Southwark Crown Court for throwing tomato soup on to which painting?
17. Why did Eurostar cancel a quarter its trains to Paris this weekend?
18. Ray Reardon, the six-time world snooker champion who died aged 91, was affectionately given what nickname for his widow’s peak hairline and prominent teeth?
19. Why did Britain's Charlotte Dujardin, a six-time Olympic dressage medallist, withdraw from the Paris Games?
20. Former marathon world champion Paula Radcliffe said she was 'very sorry’ and ‘mortified' for doing what?
21. Abdul ‘Duke' Fakir, the last surviving member of which pop group, died aged 88?
22. Who was charged with making malicious communications over tweets relating to broadcaster and footballer 
Eniola Aluko?
23. The first football match in the Paris Olympics was delayed by more than an hour following crowd trouble. Which two countries were taking part? Half a point for each.
24. John Mayall, who died aged 90, fronted which band that featured, over the years, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Mick Taylor and Peter Green?
25. Which actress criticised Donald Trump’s Vice-Presidential candidate, JD Vance, on instagram for calling Democrats a 'bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives’?

Answers here 

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