The top team was Tim Humphrey and Global’s Newsroom and Barnard Castle FOC including Carole, Trevor and Bill also with 22. Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe with Peter and Heather Clifton scored 20 and Maura and Phil Parsons and the Broad Oak Boozers Tim, Thom and Craig scored 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Why not give it a go and let me know your score.
A range of today's front pages
1. The operation by America to send 125 military aircraft to target three nuclear sites in Iran was codenamed what?
2. American B-2 planes dropped GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators - known by what nickname - on Iran?
3. US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House that he was 'really unhappy’ that Israel and Iran had breached the ceasefire, adding: 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what __ __ they’re doing.’ What are the two missing words?
4. Western leaders, including US President Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, attented the Nato Summit in which European city?
5. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte referred to US President Donald Trump’s comments on Israel and Iran by saying that who had 'to sometimes use strong language’?
6. A National Security Strategy report said the British public must 'actively prepare’ for war where?
7. Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted the Government would stand firm on its welfare reforms saying: 'The additions to PIP each year are the equivalent of a city the size of Leicester. That is not a system that can be left unreformed.’ What does PIP stand for?
8. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner insisted at PMQs that, despite a potential rebellion by Labour backbenchers, the vote on welfare reforms would go-ahead on what day?
9. MPs in the Commons voted in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill by a majority of how many votes?
10. The Reform leader of which English county council resigned, leaving his 18-year-old deputy, George Finch, in charge?
11. Five people were taken to hospital when a double decker bus full of students crashed into what in Eastleigh, Hampshire?
12. Who was left ’shattered and traumatised’ after being attacked by a gang as she was leaving a Waterstones in Piccadilly, London?
13. Why was the village of Goult, near the south-eastern French city of Avignon, in this week’s headlines?
14. BBC newsreader Martine Croxall thanked supporters after she changed which phrase on her autocue during a news report.
15. Thomas Robinson, 55, was jailed for three and a half years after being found guilty at Stirling Crown Court of a fraud in which he earned £550,000 by selling what?
16. Marcus Monzo, 37, was sentenced at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of killing a 14-year-old schoolboy and injuring four others in London using what?
17. Briton Jacky Jhaj, 39, appeared in court charged in connection with a mock wedding with a nine-year-old bride at which venue?
18. A memorial for Queen Elizabeth II is to feature a bridge with a glass balustrade, inspired by the shape of what, in London’s St James's Park?
19. Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos and fiancee Lauren Sanchez shrugged off protests to go ahead with their wedding in which city?
20. Dame Anna Wintour, 75, announced she was is stepping down from what position after 37 years?
21. England cricketers chased down 371 to beat India by five wickets with who scoring 149 in the second innings?
22. Gareth Southgate became the seventh football manager to receive a knighthood. Name any three of the others. Bonus point if you name all six.
23. What two animals caused the evacuation of a wildlife park near Exeter after escaping from their enclosures?
24. Who posted a photo of her husband in hospital with his arm in a sling and a message that said: ‘Get well soon daddy’?
25. Singer Rod Stewart said he wished his billing at Glastonbury wasn’t called what, saying ‘it sounds like pipe and slippers’?
13. Why was the village of Goult, near the south-eastern French city of Avignon, in this week’s headlines?
14. BBC newsreader Martine Croxall thanked supporters after she changed which phrase on her autocue during a news report.
15. Thomas Robinson, 55, was jailed for three and a half years after being found guilty at Stirling Crown Court of a fraud in which he earned £550,000 by selling what?
16. Marcus Monzo, 37, was sentenced at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of killing a 14-year-old schoolboy and injuring four others in London using what?
17. Briton Jacky Jhaj, 39, appeared in court charged in connection with a mock wedding with a nine-year-old bride at which venue?
18. A memorial for Queen Elizabeth II is to feature a bridge with a glass balustrade, inspired by the shape of what, in London’s St James's Park?
19. Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos and fiancee Lauren Sanchez shrugged off protests to go ahead with their wedding in which city?
20. Dame Anna Wintour, 75, announced she was is stepping down from what position after 37 years?
21. England cricketers chased down 371 to beat India by five wickets with who scoring 149 in the second innings?
22. Gareth Southgate became the seventh football manager to receive a knighthood. Name any three of the others. Bonus point if you name all six.
23. What two animals caused the evacuation of a wildlife park near Exeter after escaping from their enclosures?
24. Who posted a photo of her husband in hospital with his arm in a sling and a message that said: ‘Get well soon daddy’?
25. Singer Rod Stewart said he wished his billing at Glastonbury wasn’t called what, saying ‘it sounds like pipe and slippers’?
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