Friday, 12 December 2025

Have a crack at the newsquiz

The top solo scorer in last week’s newsquiz was Tim (still totally unremarkable) with 24, ahead of the Rev Leon and George Mann on 22, Robert Reay on 21 and Janet Boyle on 20. The top team was the French Christmas market gang of Peter, Stacey, Kevin and Mand and Maura and Phil Parsons both on 22. Peter, Jackie and the Baptism crew scored 20, the Gainford Twosome of Bill and Sue and Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe 19, Trevor, Carole and the Smith gang and the Harrow Inn hooligans 17. Here is this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week’s news. Why not give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. What did US President Donald Trump denounce as a ‘decaying' group of nations led by ‘weak’ people?
2. US President Donald Trump criticised UK immigration and branded who as 'horrible, vicious, disgusting' and suggested he had done a 'terrible job’?
3. Under a proposal by US officials, tourists from dozens of countries including the UK could be asked to provide what as a condition of entry to America?
4. Ukraine's President Zelensky held talks in Downing Street with Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and which other European leader?
5. Prime Minister Keir Starmer paid tribute to 28-year-old Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, who was killed where?
6. A report by the Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner said that how many billions of pounds in taxpayer money was lost to fraud and error in Covid support schemes - with much of it 'beyond recovery’? 
7. The chief executive of NHS Providers, Daniel Elkeles, was accused of causing confusion after saying people with flu or cold symptoms must do what?
8. The Government was urged to name the Army’s top spy in the Provisional IRA - who had which codename - after an independent investigation into his activities?
9. Armed forces minister Al Carns said: 'The shadow of __ is knocking on Europe's door once more. That's the reality. We've got to be prepared to deter it.’ What is the missing word?
10. Around 50 pub landlords put signs up banning which group of people in a protest over business rates increases?
11. Twenty-one people, including a three year-old girl, were injured by pepper-spray during a robbery where?
12. Former footballer Joey Barton was given a suspended jail sentence for 'grossly offensive' social media posts about football pundits Lucy Ward and Eni Aluko and which broadcaster?
13. Two men were found guilty of murder and manslaughter after killing a mother and her three children by setting their house, in which city, on fire?
14. Sophie Kinsella, who died aged 55, was the author of nine best-selling novels that all included what word?
15. Bestselling author Joanna Trollope, who died 82, was nicknamed the 'Queen of the __ Saga’. What is the missing word?
16. How old was Glaswegian comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter who died this week?
17. An 86-year-old man claimed he was fined £250 by litter enforcement officers after doing what in Skegness?
18. Thousands of what washed up on Sussex beaches after falling from a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight?
19. A Boom Radio survey found that two-thirds of men and three-quarters of women see it as bad manners to call someone what?
20. The six contenders for the 2025 BBC Sports Personality of the Year award include England footballers Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, rugby union player Ellie Kildunne, F1 driver Lando Norris, golfer Rory McIlroy and who else?
21. Which rock band’s frontman was awarded a knighthood by the Prince Of Wales for services to charity and music?
22. Who responded to criticism of his dirty kitchen by posting a video of him scrubbing his oven clean?
23. Lando Norris won his first Formula 1 Championship on Sunday after finishing in what position in the deciding showdown in Abu Dhabi?
24. Scotland were in the World Cup draw for the first time in 28 years and will play Morocco, Haiti and which other country?
25. Influencer Angry Ginge won I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here but who was runner-up?

Answers here

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