Friday, 1 August 2025

Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorers in last week’s newsquiz were Robert Rea and George Mann with 22, ahead of Janet Boyle on 20, Andy Cave on 17 and Ian McCulloch on 16. The top team was the Barnard Castle FOC with Trev, Carole, Our Peter, Jackie and Sue who also scored 22. Maura and Phil Parsons with Libby scored 19, Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe and the Broad Oak Boozers, including Tim, Thom and George both 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. 

Tuesday's front pages

1. The Lionesses became the first England team to win a major trophy on foreign soil when they beat which country in the Euros final?
2. Which Lioness played the whole of the Euros with a fractured tibia?  
3. Home Office statistics showed that the number of people arriving in the UK in small boats had passed what figure faster this year than since records began?
4. Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the Government would make changes to its internship schemes in order 'to get more __ __ young people into the Civil Service’. What are the two missing words?
5. Nine out of ten members of which union rejected a 3.6 per cent pay offer and warned they would strike later this year unless salaries were improved?
6. Which country announced plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September, becoming the third G7 nation to do so after France and the UK?
7. More than 150 flights were cancelled across the UK because of an air traffic control outage that lasted how many minutes?
8. Ministry of Justice figures showed the number of foreign nationals in UK prisons were at a record high, with 1,193 from which country topping the list?
9. The sixth most severe earthquake in recorded history struck off Russia's eastern coast with a magnitude of how much?
10. Internet watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation into whether four companies - that run 34 what - are complying with age-check requirements?
11. A gunman who killed four people and himself in New York left a note that blamed which organisation for his brain injury?
12. On his visit to Scotland what did US President Donald Trump say were a 'con-job’ and 'some of the ugliest you've ever seen’?
13. A 76-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of what after eight children at a Leicestershire summer camp were taken to hospital?
14. What was the name of the singer, who died aged 97, who was the only female artist to be nominated for Grammy awards in the pop, jazz and classical categories and who was made a dame in 1997?
15. Where did the Bostin Brass Band, a New Orleans-style combo, perform on Wednesday?
16. Who flew to Tenerife as British police were seeking to question him over an alleged assault on a 64-year-old man at St Pancras Station, London?
17. Why did Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, born to an Ohio couple on Saturday, set a new world record?
18. What is the name of the stage school pioneer, whose former alumni included Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Emma Bunton and McFly's Tom Fletcher, who died aged 86?
19. Which former football manager’s £5million home was broken into by masked burglars who stole his wife's jewellery?
20. A ride called 360 Degrees split in half while swinging in the air in a 
theme park in which country, leaving 23 people injured?
21. Singer Justin Timberlake revealed he had which disease, saying the diagnosis explained why he 'would be on stage and in a massive amount of nerve pain'?
22. Why did TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson say everyone at Diddly Squat farm was 'absolutely devastated’?
23. The US tech firm Astronomer, whose CEO and HR chief were caught on camera embracing at a Coldplay concert, released a promotional video featuring who as a 'temporary spokesperson’?
24. Which TV presenters announced they were ending their marriage ‘and were now separated’?
25. The most popular baby names in England and Wales were released with there being no change at the top. What were the top names for a boy and a girl? Half a point for each.

Answers here

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