Have a crack at the newsquiz

Last week’s newsquiz was clearly a tough one. Many regular quizzers, who usually easily make the leaderboard, failed to score more than 15. Submitted scores even included some single figures. The top solo scorer was George Mann with 19, ahead of the Rev Leon and Martin John on 17. The only team to make the leader board was the Barnard Castle Five O’clock Club of Our Peter, Jackie, Trevor and Carole who scored 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz which, I think, might be a little less testing. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

A selection of today's front pages

1. What word did US President Donald Trump use to describe Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, adding he had done a ’terrible job'?
2. European and other world leaders, including Prime Minister Keir Starmer, held an emergency summit in which city to try to forge a response to Donald Trump's divisive plan to end the war in Ukraine?
3. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ensure that Hamas 'pays the full price’ for what 'cruel and evil' violation of the ceasefire deal?
4. What did Elon Musk wield on stage at a conservative conference as he boasted about slashing government spending?
5. The rate of inflation in the UK rose from 2.5 per cent to what, its highest level in ten months?

6. Which company won a High Court battle to secure a £3billion rescue loan, staving off the prospect of coming under temporary Government control?
7. A plane which crashed and skidded along the runway before flipping upside down at Toronto airport was operated by which airline?
8. Pope Francis, 88, was diagnosed with what in both lungs?
9. Why did British tennis player Emma Raducanu approach the umpire’s chair in tears at the Dubai Tennis Championships?
10. British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman were charged with espionage in which country while on a round-the-world motorbike trip?
11. Raneem's Law was launched in five pilot areas - West Midlands, Northumbria, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Humberside. What is Raneem’s Law?
12. Former Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales was found guilty of sexually assaulting footballer Jenni Hermoso by kissing her and was ordered to pay a fine of how many euros a day for 18 months?
13. At an inquest into the death of Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, the coroner ruled she died by suicide and said what had played 'more than a minimal contributory part in her death’?
14. Which celebrity couple’s £3.5million Essex mansion was broken into by four masked men?
15. What is the name of the political journalist and Press secretary to former Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson who died aged 97?
16. Polish woman Julia Wandelt, who claims to be who, was arrested after landing in Britain at Bristol Airport?
17. American influencer Ashley St Clair, 26, announced that she had given birth to whose thirteenth child?
18. A man suspected of shooting dead a 43-year-old woman at a pub in Kent on Valentine’s Day is believed to have killed himself by doing what?
19. Why were 30 homes evacuated in the Surrey village of Godstone? 

20. Rick Buckler, who died aged 69, was the drummer with which punk band in the 1970s and 80s?
21. Which country’s tourism slogan Everyone Must Go was ridiculed with critics likening it to a clearance sale, a marketing campaign for the apocalypse and a desperate plea for access to the lavatory?
22. The creative control of which film franchise was given to Amazon MGM Studios after the long-serving producers announced they were stepping down?
23. Which movie won four BAFTAs including the coveted awards for best film and outstanding British film?
24. Which two British clubs lost in the play-offs and failed to make it to the last 16 in the Champions League? Half a point for each?
25. Theatre actress Samantha Barks won this year’s Masked Singer while dressed as what creature?

Answers here