Time to tackle the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim (still totally unremarkable) with 22, ahead of the Rev Leon on 21, George Mann and Robert Rea on 20, Joe Rossiter on 19 and Jamie Boys on 16. The top team was Maura and Phil Parsons and Broad Oak Boozers, Tim, Thom, Craig and Danny both with 21. King’s Head drinkers Stacey, Peter, Kevin and Amanda scored 18 and Bill and Sue 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.

Today's front pages

1. The Israeli military said how many living hostages had been released by Hamas and returned to Israel?
2. Why did deceased mother-of-two Shiri Biba become a potential stumbling block in the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel on Tuesday?
3. US President Donald Trump asked Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the only female world leader on stage at the Gaza summit: 'You don’t mind being called __, right? Because you are’. What is the missing word?
4. At Prime Minister’s Questions Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said 'a serious case involving national security has collapsed because this Government is too weak to stand up to’ which country?
5. US President Donald Trump said he would meet Vladimir Putin in which city - the Russian president’s first visit to an EU country since the war began - for talks on ending the Ukraine conflict?
6. Which football club said it had been advised that fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv should not be allowed to attend a Europa League match next month?
7. What did Pope Leo say was 'a collective failure, an ethical aberration, a historical sin’ which continued to 'atrociously plague a significant portion of humanity’?
8. Fayaz Khan, 26, was jailed for five years for posting a video on TikTok making a gun gesture with his hand, saying ‘pop, pop, pop' and naming who?
9. The Competition and Markets Authority said that who should be forced to publish price lists for customers after fees rose by nearly twice the rate of inflation?
10. Royal Mail was fined how much after it missed its targets for both first and second-class post in 2024/25?
11. Ian Watkins, who died after being attacked in Wakefield Prison, was formerly the lead singer of which rock band?
12. Diane Keaton, who died aged 79, won an Oscar for Best Actress, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for playing the title role in which 1977 romantic comedy?
13. Three asylum-seekers were charged after a 33-year-old woman was dragged on to a beach and raped in which English resort?
14. In her posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Giuffre said the Duke of York acted as if he believed having sex with her 'was his __'? What is the missing word?

15. Around 3,000 people are taking legal action against Johnson & Johnson claiming the company knowingly sold talcum powder containing what? 
16. Former footballer Alan Shearer and actor Sir Michael Caine were among celebrities and campaigners who signed a letter to the Prime Minister calling for what to be banned in England?

17. Which bookmakers announced it was to close 57 shops across the UK and Ireland, with 247 staff at risk of redundancy?
18. Who appeared at Nottingham Crown Court and admitted making an indecent image of a child?
19. Why was former West Ham player Said Benrahma fined £12,000 at Willesden Magistrates’ Court?
20. Which 91-year-old French actress was rushed to hospital in Toulon in a 'serious condition'?
21. Photographs of a couple kissing and cuddling on a yacht off Santa Barbara, California, apperared to confirm that which pop star and ex-politician were dating? Half a point for each name.
22. England qualified for next summer's World Cup by beating which team 5-0?
23. Which sport took over the Royal Albert Hall in London for five days this week?
24. What happened on Celebrity Traitors that viewers called the 'TV moment of the year’, ‘TV gold’ and said it deserved ‘all the Baftas’?
25. There was chaos at Neath station in South Wales after what invaded a platform and refused to move?

Answers here