Time to tackle the newsquiz

Last week's newsquiz, dominated of course by questions about the Iran conflict, proved to be a tough one with scores below average and quite a few regulars not making the leaderboard. The top solo scorers were George Mann and Robert Rea 21, ahead of Janet Boyle on 20 and Tim Humphrey on 16. The top team were the Barnard Castle FOC with Bill, OP, Jackie, Trev and Carole on 21, ahead of Adam Batstone and Lucy Thorpe on 18 and the Broad Oak Boozers of Danny, Thom, Craig and special guest Isla on 15. Here’s this week’s newsquiz. As usual there are 25 questions about the week. Give it a go and let me know your score.

Today's front pages

1. US President Donald Trump accused Prime Minister Keir Starmer of seeking to 'join wars after’ what?
2. Merchant ships were hit by missiles in which strait after Iran said it would not allow even 'one litre of oil' to leave the region?
3. The FBI warned which state, that contains the highest proportion of Iranian dissidents in America, of a potential drone attack?
4. Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named as Iran's new supreme leader, was what relation to his predecessor, who was killed on the first day of the war?
5. A 60-year-old British man was one of 21 people charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly doing what?
6. Five of the Iranian women's football team were granted humanitarian visas in Australia after fears for their safety at home because they had declined to do what?
7. Which UK politician failed to meet with Donald Trump despite flying to Florida to dine at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort?
8. Lord Peter Mandelson was handed a taxpayer-funded payout of how much to terminate his contract as the UK’s ambassador to the US?
9. Despite ten Labour MPs voting against and 90 not recording a vote, a Bill to change what in England and Wales progressed to the next stage?
10. The House of Lords passed a Bill that means what will be abolished, finally ending a centuries-old system?
11. MPs voted 307 to 173 against a Lords proposal to ban what and instead supported 'more flexible restrictions’?
12. A convicted bomber told the High Court that former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was a senior figure in which organisation?
13. The main train station at Glasgow Central was closed following a huge fire that started in what type of shop?
14. The 27-year-old daughter of Soham killer Ian Huntley suggested that what should be done to his ashes?
15. Pupils at a secondary school near which city were told to hide under desks, after a teenage girl was stabbed?
16. Mother-of-ten Amanda Wixon, who held a woman captive as a slave inside her home in Tewkesbury for 25 years, was jailed for how many years?
17. Today (Friday) marks how many years of the school shooting in Dunblane in which a teacher and 16 children were killed?

18. Who was remanded in custody charged with an assault, which could result in a man losing sight in one eye, after a fight broke out in a Merseyside golf club?
19. Who failed to land a £1.5million deal with US publishing houses for her tell-all memoir?
20. Animal charities complained after the winner of Crufts best in show was found to have been convicted of what?

21. The Bank of England said that images of what were to replace the famous faces traditionally used on banknotes?
22. In the Six Nations, England’s rugby team lost for the first time ever to which country?
23. Britain’s Sky Brown, 17, celebrated in Brazil by becoming world champion in which sport for the second time?
24. A record number of red cards were given to how many players after a mass brawl broke out between Brazilian clubs Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro in the Campeonato Mineiro final?
25. Actor Timothée Chalamet triggered a backlash after he dismissed what as art forms that audiences do not care about?

Answers here