Friday, 4 July 2025

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim Humphrey with 22, ahead of Robert Rea and the Rev Leon on 21, George Mann and Janet Boyle on 20, Marion Fountayne on 19 and Nick Turner on 18. The top team was the Barnard Castle FOC of Bill, Carole, Sue and Trevor who scored 22, ahead of Peter and Stacey with 20 and Our Peter, Jackie, Sarah and Joe on 17. Here is this week's newsquiz. As usual here are 25 questions about the last seven days. Why not give it a go and let me know your score. 

Today's front pages

1. Liverpool forward Diogo Jota, who died with his brother in a car accident in Spain, had 49 caps for which country?
2. Among the Anfield tributes to Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident, were balloons with which number on them?
3. According to senior ministers, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was crying at PMQs on Wednesday because she had an altercation with who?
4. Talking of her tears at PMQs, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: ‘When I'm having a __ day, it's on the telly and most people don't have to deal with that.’ What is the missing word?
5. The Government announced a ten-year plan to change the National Health Service with the launch of a new NHS. What does the N stand for in the relaunched service?
6. Suspended MP Zarah Sultana announced she was resigning from Labour to start a new party with who?
7. MPs voted for changes to the welfare system, after the Government offered concessions to Labour rebels, by a majority of how many?
8. Conservative MP George Freeman referred himself to the standards commissioner after it was claimed he did what?
9. BBC director general Tim Davie faced questions over why live footage from Glastonbury of which duo, chanting for the death of Israeli soldiers, was not pulled?
10. MPs voted, by 385 votes to 26, to proscribe which group as a terrorist organisation?
11. A seven-year-old girl died and a six-year-old was seriously hurt after a tree collapsed in a park in which English town?
12. Research by employment website Adzuna said entry-level jobs had fallen by a third in three years and suggested what was to blame?
13. American rapper and producer Sean ‘Diddy' Combs was denied bail despite being found not guilty of racketeering and what other offence?
14. Why did EasyJet cancel 274 flights and Ryanair 170 flights this week?
15. Three managers at the Countess of Chester hospital, where jailed nurse Lucy Letby worked, were arrested on suspicion of what?
16. The US Senate narrowly passed Donald Trump's One __ __ Bill on tax and spending? What are the two missing words?
17. In a post on Truth Social, US President Donald Trump said Israel has agreed to the 'necessary conditions' to finalise a ceasefire in Gaza for how many days?
18. As part of King Charles’s drive to modernise the monarchy and reduce costs, what is to be decommissioned in 2027?
19. What was the name of the veteran broadcaster, who died aged 97, who was foreign correspondent for ITN and presenter of News at Ten?
20. How old is Ryland Headley who was sentenced to life for the rape and murder of 75-year-old woman at her Bristol home in June 1967?
21. How were two female tourists from the UK and New Zealand killed in Zambia?
22. According to Royal Mail, its staff members were subjected to almost 2,200 what in the UK last year?
23. Lottery bosses in which country sent a message apologising to tens of thousands of players who were wrongly told they had won large sums of money?
24. Norway’s footballers beat which country, the hosts, in the opening game of the women's Euros?
25. Thousands of Oasis fans arrived in which city to watch the band reunite on stage for the first time in 16 years?

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