Newsquiz answers

Newsquiz answers, March 28, 2025

1. Three million
2. 10,000
3. Sabrina Carpenter
4. Bump in the road

5. Mandalay
6. 7.7
7. The Atlantic
8. Free-loading
9. Imported cars
10. Members of Parliament
11. Turkey
12. Russia
13. Morrisons
14. Sentebale 
15. Hi-viz
16. 45
17. Next
18. WH Smith
19. Joey Barton (ex-footballer)
20. Paddington Bear (whose statue they stole)
21. A pint of beer 
22. University of Sussex (accept Brighton)
23. Adolescence
24. The Oxford English Dictionary (new words which have been added this week)

25. Dancing On Ice 

Newsquiz answers, March 21, 2025

1. An electrical substation (in Hayes)
2. £5billion

3. Personal Independence Payment

4. 4.5 per cent
5. The Pulse nightclub

6. Ice hockey

7. Yemen

8. Pot-holes

9. 49 years
10. Tesla cars (in protest at Elon Musk)

11. Santander

12. Listeria
13. Ben & Jerry

14. Sir Gareth Southgate (former footballer and England manager)

15. Returning to earth after nine months on the International Space Station
16. Ketamine
17. Cape Town

18. Casualty and Holby City
19. Estonia

20. Canada

21. Battle of Britain pilot

22. Conor McGregor

23. Jack Draper

24. Wales

25. 70

Newsquiz answers, March 14, 2025

1. Solong and Stena Immaculate
2. Russia
3. Quango
4. Those within 500 metres of new or upgraded pylons
5. Rupert Lowe
6. 30 days
7. Wine and champagne 
8. Mark Carney
9. Nicola Sturgeon (as an MP)
10. The red carpet
11. Bulgaria
12. Greenland
13. £50
14. Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower
15. Slushies
16. £2billion
17. Unknowingly bringing a migrant into the UK from France
18. Pakistan
19. Stuart Pearce
20. Jockey Frankie Dettori 
21. Wombat
22. A whippet
23. Blood
24. Latvia

25. Dancing on Ice

Newsquiz answers, March 7, 2025

1. World War Three
2. Wearing a suit 
3. Dumb
4. New Zealand
5. Stop the boats
6. Those who had been killed by a man in the UK in the last 12 months
7. Liverpool
8. Playing football

9. Mannheim
10. Greggs

11. Doctors
12. Overweight or obese
13. Rape 
14. Smacking
15. Serbia

16. An unexploded bomb was found near the track

17. Singer Dolly Parton
18. Paddington Bear 
19. Crufts dog-handler
20. With Love, Meghan
21 Sabrina Carpenter
22. Anora
23. Neil Young
24. Remember Monday (The girls appeared on the Voice)

25. King Charles

Newsquiz answers, February 28, 2025

1. An invitation from King Charles for a State visit
2. Accent
3. French President Emmanuel Macron

4. The international aid budget
5. £111
6. NHS England
7. Ten (the sentence was later suspended for two years) 
8. BP
9. Santa Fe 
10. The French Connection
11. AfD (Alternative für Deutschland)
12. Manchester 
13. Congo (the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
14. Threw her newborn out of a hotel window
15. Kenya
16. The Tate brothers (Andrew and Tristan)
17. Tim Westwood
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 
19. AI (changes to copyright law, which make it easier for AI companies to use their content) 
20. A gold toilet (worth £4.75million)
21. Roberta Flack
22. A Trump Gaza video (posted by Donald Trump on Truth Social)
23. Afghanistan
24. Katy Perry

25. Peppa Pig

Newsquiz answers, February 21, 2025

1. Dictator
2. Paris
3. Hamas handing over the body of an unknown person instead of an Israeli hostage
4. A chainsaw
5. Three per cent
6. Thames Water
7. Delta
8. Pneumonia
9. She saw her stalker (a man who had displayed fixated behaviour) in the crowd
10. Iran
11. Domestic violence specialists to be placed in 999 control rooms
12. €20
13. The way the Army handled her complaints 
14. Michelle Keegan and Mark Wright
15. Joe Haines
16. Madeleine McCann
17. Elon Musk’s
18. Jumping into the River Thames
19. Two huge sinkholes appeared in the high street 

20. The Jam
21. New Zealand
22. James Bond
23. Conclave
24. Manchester City and Celtic

25. A pufferfish

Newsquiz answers, February 14, 2025

1. Saudi Arabia
2. Trigger Me Timbers
3. 19,000 
4. A High Court judge
5. A deal with Reform
6. Steel and aluminium
7. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
8. Terrible
9. Vancouver
10. That his wife and daughters were killed in the October 7 attack 
11. Polly Peck
12. A Mini Cooper
13. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
14. In prison (Styal HMP in Cheshire)
15. France
16. Motley Crue
17. Bargain Hunt
18. Grenoble
19. Birmingham
20. The Apprentice
21. Lisa Riley (Emmerdale)
22. Blow up a neighbour's cat
23. Plymouth Argyle
24. Philadelphia Eagles
25. Comedy legend Eric Morecambe's glasses (and pipe)

Newsquiz answers, February 7, 2025

1. Nato Secretary General 
2. Voice coach
3. Pointed ends
4. 4.5 per cent
5. Gaza
6. Canada and Mexico
7. Lucy Letby
8. AstraZeneca 
9. Shot dead a teenage burglar at his home
10. Cat ownership
11. Santorini
12. Sweden
13. Philadelphia
14. Bill Gates
15. Slimming World
16. Riding an e-scooter
17. Gino D’Acampo
18. Sheffield
19. The American national anthem/ Star-Spangled Banner 
20. Mildred
21. Aston Villa 
22. She offered a free pint every time Nottingham Forest scored (and they won 7-0)
23. Wearing a see-through dress
24. Beyoncé (for Cowboy Carter)

25. Newcastle United and Liverpool

Newsquiz answers, January 31, 2025

1. The Potomac
2. Diversity (DEI - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)
3. Skating
4. Old Trafford (Manchester United)
5. Assisted dying legislation 
6. Auschwitz
7. Liberal
8. Eight
9. Cardiff
10. Omagh
11. WHSmith
12. India
13. DeepSeek
14. River Dee
15. The Rolling Stones
16. Liverpool 
17. Coming out as gay 
18. Jack Fincham (former Love Island winner)
19. Wynne Evans
20. Selena Gomez
21. The Tempest
22. They will be the first twins to play for England at rugby
23. Emmerdale
24. Athena (Athena Elizabeth Rose Mapelli Mozzi)

25. By winning the third series of The Traitors

Newsquiz answers, January 24, 2025

1. Sixteen

2. 52
3. Amazon
4. Two-click
5. The Gulf of America
6. The World Health Organization
7. She was wearing a wide-brimmed hat
8. A one-armed gesture compared to a Nazi salute
9. Mount McKinley
10. Tik Tok
11. They were the first three hostages to be released by Hamas
12. Private investigators
13. Storm Éowyn 
14. A Russian spy ship in UK waters (monitoring underground cables)
15. Non-dom
16. Manchester City
17. Sainsbury’s
18. Birmingham
19. A fez (compared to comedian Tommy Cooper)
20. Turkey
21. Working from home
22. Pauline Quirke

23. The first openly transgender person to receive a nomination
24. David Beckham

25. The Beatles

Newsquiz answers, January 17, 2025

1. Six
2. 33
3. Tulip Siddiq
4. AI
5. Corridor
6. 100
7. Ex-Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams
8. Unconditional discharge
9. Oligarchy
10. Nicola Sturgeon (former first minister of Scotland)
11. Oldham
12. BP
13. Canadian Prime Minister/Leader of the Canadian Liberal Party
14. Laurence Olivier
15. David Lynch
16. Whose Line is it Anyway
17. Hollyoaks
18. Village People
19. Royal Marsden Hospital
20. Disaster
21. A tribute to singer Linda Nolan, who died aged 65
22. Toad in the Hole
23. One of the home players had to fix a net with tape
24. Mark Chapman
25. Conclave

Newsquiz answers, January 10, 2025

1. Pacific Palisades

2. d) Piers Morgan
3. China

4. Historical child sexual exploitation (grooming gangs)

5. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss

6. Genocide

7. Greenland and the Panama Canal

8. Five (Biden, Trump, Obama, Clinton, Bush) 
9. The appointment of RFK Jr as health secretary

10. Mick Lynch (general secretary of the RMT)

11. In New Orleans (a victim of the terror attack)

12. 14

13. 2015

14. An airport 

15. Peter, Paul and Mary

16. Independent fact checkers

17. Stuart Hogg
18. The Vivienne
19. The South Pole
20. Lynx

21. £500,000
22. West Ham and Everton

23. The Substance

24. Rod Stewart

25. 43

Newsquiz answers, January 3, 2025

1. Bourbon Street
2. A black ISIS flag
3. 100
4. Georgia
5. Las Vegas
6. Montenegro
7. Muan (South Korea)
8. 2028
9. A tuna can lid
10. Go outside
11. Sir Stephen Fry
12. Why Does It Always Rain On Me (by Travis)
13. b) £269,426
14. Romeo and Juliet
15. Manslaughter
16. Sounds of the 70s
17. Glasgow Rangers and Celtic
18. Jocelyne Wildenstein
19. Meta (Facebook owners)
20. Osmond Brothers/Osmonds (Wayne Osmond)
21. Stormzy
22. Plymouth Argyle
23. Neil Young
24. DJ Spoony
25. The Duchess of Sussex (Meghan Markle)

Newsquiz answers, December 27, 2024

1. Doctors and nurses
2. The voting age (to 16)
3. Work from home
4. Magdeburg
5. Filed for divorce
6. Kazakhstan
7. Becoming the closest-ever spacecraft to the Sun
8. A Christmas tree

9. Opposition
10. His brother Nick
11. The Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people
12. He fell from a moving vehicle (in Alabama)
13. Milton Keynes
14. Blake Lively
15. Cadbury
16. Setting light to a homeless woman
17. 92
18. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
19. Guinness
20. Saracen’s Head 
21. The Together At Christmas carol service at Westminster Abbey organised by the Princess of Wales
22. Once (the only time they have won it ... 2019/20)
23. Last Christmas by Wham!
24. The Gavin and Stacey finale 
25. Gail (Potter, Tilsley, Platt, Hillman, McIntyre, Rodwell, Chadwick)

Newsquiz answers, December 20, 2024

1. Waspi Women

2. David Cameron and Theresa May

3. The Royal Mail

4. 40 years

5. Bangladesh

6. George Carey

7. Lord Peter Mandelson 
8. Water bills

9. Fixing potholes

10. An electric scooter

11. Elon Musk

12. 51
13. Dog

14. Mayotte 
15. Throwing a milkshake over Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

16. Eddie Stobart

17. Inhaling laughing gas (nitrous oxide) 

18. Mango

19. Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers

20. Celebrity MasterChef (replacing Gregg Wallace)

21. Jordan North

22. Wolves (Gary O'Neil) and Southampton (Russell Martin)

23. Luke Littler (darts) and Joe Root (cricket)

24. It conflicts with his 250-date stand-up tour

25. Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood

Newsquiz answers, December 13, 2024

1. HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham)
2. Moscow
3. H6
4. No comment
5. Flu
6. 2.8 per cent
7. 1.5 million
8. Birmingham 
9. Medical misogyny
10. Thames Water
11. MacDonald’s
12. Michail Antonio (West Ham)
13. Northumberland
14. Accepting bribes
15. Sandwiches
16. The re-opening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
17. Rupert Murdoch 
18. 13
19. Dubai 
20. Dick Van Dyke
21. Spain, Portugal and Morocco 
22. Vancouver
23. Donald Trump
24. Chess
25. Coleen Rooney and Richard Coles

Newsquiz answers, December 6, 2024

1. a) Bringing immigration down to levels seen while Britain was an EU member

2. James Bond
3. The identity of their abusers
4. 2029 
5. The future of the Elgin Marbles (the Parthenon Sculptures)
6. South Western Railway 
7. Certain age
8. Three
9. Being a drug user in possession of a gun
10. Deny, Defend, Depose
11. Anti-depressant tablets
12. Grabbing a soldier’s gun
13. Quad-demic
14. Russia
15. The Observer 
16. Excessive whipping of a horse
17. The new Jaguar (Type 00)
18. Terry Griffiths
19. See/watch the show (due to problems with his eyesight)
20. Presenter Clive Myrie
21. Pies 
22. The captain’s rainbow armband supporting the LGBTQ+ community
23. Muhammad and Olivia
24. Wales

25. Tulisa (Contostavlos)

Newsquiz answers, November 29, 2024

1. c) Wes Streeting
2. Transport Secretary
3. Open borders
4. A General Election
5. Alternatives
6. 2.8 million 
7. Preventing and dealing with spiking 
8. The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon 
9. Egypt
10. Luton
11. A tractor
12. Rod Stewart 
13. William Hague (former Foreign Secretary)
14. Eight
15. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
16. Social media accounts
17. Smithfield and Billingsgate
18. A Woman of Substance
19. Sleep
20. Typhoo Tea
21. The Groucho Club
22. A scratch on his nose (and forehead)
23. Leicester City (Steve Cooper)
24. Wine

25. Rod Stewart

Newsquiz answers, November 22, 2024

1. Storm Shadow
2. Atacms (Army Tactical Missile System)
3. China
4. Hull (Kingston-upon-Hull East)
5. The farmer had thrown an egg at him
6. d) Jacob-Rees Mogg
7. Attorney General
8. £72million
9. Laos
10. A car boot
11. Amersham
12. Sweden
13. 92
14. David Blunkett (former Home Secretary)
15. Jaguar
16. Bert
17. The Captain Tom Foundation 
18. A banana
19. They were expecting a baby
20. His vocals to be used on the Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas
21. Zoe Ball (BBC Breakfast Show presenter)
22. 58 (Tyson) and 27 (Paul)

23. Rafael Nadal
24. Roy Keane (former Ireland captain) 
25. Glastonbury tickets

Newsquiz answers, November 15, 2024

1. Attend the French Armistice Day service in Paris
2. The Assisted Dying Bill
3. Nigel Farage
4. Brexit
5. Azerbaijan
6. John Smyth
7. 115
8. Pharmacies/chemists
9. Department of Government Efficiency
10. US Secretary of Defense
11. The Guardian
12. Great Canal Journeys
13. Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp
14. Homebase
15. Apple
16. Jamie Oliver
17. A porn site
18. Dog-free areas
19. Davina McCall
20. 25
21. Red panda

22. George Michael and Sinead O’Connor
23. Wrexham
24. A bear
25. Barry McGuigan (63) and Jane Moore (62)

Newsquiz answers, November 8, 2024

1. c) the first president to be re-elected after a four-year gap (Grover Cleveland was 22nd and 24th)
2. Mass deportation 
3. Elon Musk
4. d) Kid Rock (who performed at the Republican National Convention)
5. Emily Maitlis 
6. Jeffrey Epstein
7. The first transgender person in Congress
8. 56 per cent
9. Shadow justice secretary
10. Mel Stride
11. £75million
12. University undergraduate tuition fees

13. James Dyson
14. 4.75 per cent
15. Amsterdam

16. Nissan
17. (Sir) John Nott 
18. Domestic abuse
19. 31
20. Nicola Sturgeon (then first minister) 
21. King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia (also accept Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez)
22. We Are The World
23. Sporting Lisbon (Sporting Clube de Portugal)
24. Lake Como air
25. Earthshot

Newsquiz answers, November 1, 2024

1. Capital gains tax 
2. The NHS
3. £12.21
4. California
5. Dad
6. Kemi Badenoch (Tory leadership front-runner)
7. A bridge (the closure means a 20-mile detour)
8. 18 months
9. Strichen
10. Children being born 
11. Valencia

12. Puerto Rico
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger 
14. Georgia
15. A bus stop
16. Rishi Sunak (when Prime Minister)
17. Abortion clinics
18. Snapchat
19. Ricin and an al Qaeda training manual
20. Cheese
21. Amy Dowden
22. England cricket captain Ben Stokes
23. West Ham
24. Real Madrid
25. Brat

Newsquiz answers, October 25, 2024

1. Write a cheque
2. Single-use vapes
3. Samoa
4. Smart watches (and other electrical devices)
5. Shoplifting
6. The Labour Party
7. She is the indigenous Australian senator who heckled King Charles
8. Jamaica
9. 67 (the 67 gang)
10. Abercrombie & Fitch
11. Two to four
12. North Korea
13. McDonald’s
14. Swanage
15. In a train crash
16. Birmingham
17. Alzheimer’s/dementia
18. Doncaster
19. Storm Ashley
20. Kate Cassidy
21. Pink
22. World’s Strongest Man
23. Tarzan
24. Florrie (Bark)

25. Herself

Newsquiz answers, October 18, 2024

1. The Casa Sur (Palermo) Hotel 
2. Universal (Music)
3. Baggies
4. Yahya Sinwar
5. North Macedonia
6. 69
7. Wembley
8. Tory boy
9. Waistbands
10. None
11. Assisted dying
12. Novichok
13. Newcastle
14. M6
15. Windermere
16. An Ottoman bed
17. 31 months
18. Woking (Surrey)
19. A German passport
20. d) Eintracht Frankfurt

21. Portugal
22. Wagatha Christie
23. Eric Cantona
24. Wynne Evans

25. A dog

Newsquiz answers, October 11, 2024

1. 20
2. Morgan McSweeney
3. 973
4. Employment Rights Bill
5. Mayhem
6. Milton
7. On their body with Sharpies (to help identify their bodies after the storm)
8. The BBC’s weather app (hit by a glitch)
9. Germany
10. M42

11. Elon Musk
12. They were rescued after being stranded in the Himalayas for three days without food
13. To commemorate the anniversary of the Hamas attack
14. A cancer charity for her best friend's daughter (Rainbow Valley)
15. He drowned (in an Athens swimming pool)
16. £1.8million
17. A foot
18. Southport
19. Witch
20. Line judges
21. Red Bull
22. Alastair Cook
23. People nearing the end of their lives
24. A cauliflower
25. Quality Street

Newsquiz answers, October 4, 2024

1. Birmingham

2. Maternity

3. James Cleverly

4. Thatcher

5. Unleashed

6. The Netherlands

7. She accidentally sent the former prime minister her briefing notes

8. b) Arsenal FC tickets

9. Rosie Duffield (MP for Canterbury)

10. Nuclear sites

11. Israel's air defence systems

12. The Chagos Islands
13. Coal (to produce electricity)

14. The menopause

15. Birds
16. The right to abortion
17. The River Derwent

18. Odyssey
19. Ian Hislop (Private Eye editor and team captain in Have I Got News For You) 

20. Bananas (accept fruit)

21. A Star Is Born

22. Aston Villa’s Champions League victory over Bayern Munich

23. Hosted 100 couples who tied the knot, formed a civil partnership or renewed their vows

24. Change his name by deed poll to the most popular suggestion from fans

25. Bullseye

Newsquiz answers, September 27, 2024

1. Reverse the cuts to winter fuel payments
2. Hostages
3. Rot
4. Baroness (Sayeeda) Warsi
5. Donald Trump
6. 21
7. Cyprus
8. Zombie
9. 19
10. Michael Gove
11. A suicide pod
12. Railway stations and trains (after a cyber attack) 
13. Gloucester
14. 20 (accept 21)
15. Eric Adams
16. Japan
17. Alan Bates
18. Helene
19. Janey Godley
20. Fashion for Relief
21. Madagascar
22. Professor (Minerva) McGonagall 
23. AFC Wimbledon 
24. Meta’s AI chatbot 
25. Changing a car tyre

Newsquiz answers, September 20, 2024

1. £170,000
2. Clothes gifted to his wife Victoria (by Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli) 
3. 22 per cent (22.3)
4. Pagers and walkie-talkies
5. Seven
6. In tatters
7. Five per cent
8. Giorgia Meloni
9. Harrods
10. He was the suspect in the Donald Trump apparent assassination attempt
11. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
12. Oxford Street
13. Brighton
14. Tupperware
15. TGI Fridays 
16. The Repair Shop
17. Jane's Addiction
18. They spotted a change in his voice which turned out to be throat cancer
19. The Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry)
20. 41
21. Tito
22. The Traitors
23. Celebrity Race Across the World 
24. Nudists

25. Cinnamon

Newsquiz answers, September 13, 2024

1. 52
2. Plumbing and taps
3. 1,700
4. Mel Stride
5. Allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with Western-made missiles
6. Six
7. Pimlico Plumbers
8. Dick Cheney
9. Eating people's pets
10. Childless cat lady
11. £2,000
12. Norfolk
13. Girl with Balloon (by Banksy)
14. The Spectator
15. He became first person to take part in a private spacewalk
16. Darth Vader (Star Wars)
17. Ron Yeats
18. Antrim
19. Nashville
20. His refusal to sing God Save the King 
21. 68
22. Mr Bates vs the Post Office
23. He had become the father to a baby girl born 'outside of my marriage’
24. Second 

Bonus: 49 gold (124 medals in total - 49 gold, 44 silver and 31 bronze)

25. The New Zealand women's rugby team

Newsquiz answers, September 6, 2024

1. 72
2. Dishonesty and greed
3. Single-word ratings
4. 14

5. Labour
6. Rwanda
7. Dynamic
8. Edinburgh (Murrayfield), Cardiff (Principality Stadium) and Dublin (Croke Park)
9. 12
10. Estonia
11. Michel Barnier
12. Phone and bag snatches
13. Six
14. Suspend some arms sales to Israel
15. Oldham

16. Germany
17. Leicester
18. Raping his wife
19. 14
20. Denise Van Outen
21. Sam Fox (ex glamour model and Page 3 girl)
22. Chief Scout

23. Brian May (Queen)
24. September 28

25. Dame Sarah Storey

Newsquiz answers, August 30, 2024

1. Painful
2. A portrait of Margaret Thatcher
3. Berlin and Paris
4. The pub (if smoking in pub gardens was banned)
5. The Gallagher brothers/Oasis
6. Hezbollah
7. The vaccination of children against polio
8. Telegram
9. Solingen
10. No whites
11. Former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson who died aged 76
12. Japan
13. Norfolk
14. London's King's Cross
15. Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary
16. Next
17. Notting Hill Carnival
18. A fire at their block of flats in Dagenham destroyed her wedding dress and passports
19. Her mother (Patricia) and sister (Alison)
20. Brazil
21. Asking Donald Trump to stop using their music at rallies
22. By jumping out of a plane (and becoming Britain’s oldest skydiver)
23. Completed 30 marathons in 30 consecutive days (all on sand)
24. Republic of Ireland
25. Basel (Switzerland)

Newsquiz answers, August 23, 2024

1. Bayesian
2. Mike Lynch
3. Tata Steel
4. Trade union
5. Southport
6. €7
7. Pakistan
8. Somerset House
9. Chicago 
10. Ted Baker
11. Bradford
12. Amazon
13. Jermain Jenas
14. He was mauled by an XL Bully
15. Bucharest
16. Unst (accept Shetlands)
17. Ben Affleck
18. Lauren Laverne
19. His dog (Loubo) to be put down and buried with him
20. 117
21. Lilian
22. A trademark infringement (his firm is EasyJetwash)
23. Bees
24. Cole Palmer (Chelsea)

25. Bottled it

Newsquiz answers, August 16, 2024

1. Iran
2. Tom Tugendhat (shadow security minister and Tory leader candidate)
3. Led By Donkeys
4. Train drivers at LNER
5. A-level results (top grades)
6. MPox
7. Sipping a Costa hot chocolate made with dairy instead of soya
8. Aldershot 
9. 11
10. Blood on their hands
11. Trains
12. They were white
13. Donating $51 (£39) to a charity supporting Ukraine (treason)
14. Actor Matthew Perry
15. Sheffield
16. He was struck by a train
17. Elon Musk and JK Rowling (also accept Donald Trump)
18. Rachael Gunn (accept Raygun) 
19. Breaking her leg in the race
20. Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry)
21. He has bought a helicopter 
22. Boardmasters
23. Scotland  
24. Ed Sheeran 

25. Cambridge

Newsquiz answers, August 9, 2024

1. Liverpool
2. Civil war
3. Allahu Akbar

4. Tommy Robinson (Former EDL leader)
5. Rotherham and Tamworth
6. Bubbles
7. Anti-immigration protesters' throats to be cut
8. Allegedly posting false information that the Southport stabbings suspect was an asylum seeker
9. Just Stop Oil
10. Grabbed a journalist's microphone and dropped it to the ground
11. Travelling to the UK during the riots
12. Vienna, Austria
13. Tim Walz
14. Beijing
15. Satelite dish
16. 55
17. Bangladesh (Sheikh Hasina)
18. They are the American astronauts who are trapped on the International Space Station
19. Turkey
20. Japan 
21. Algeria (Imane Khelif) and Taiwan (Lin Yu-ting)
22. St Lucia

23. He believed he pushed him which led to four runners falling
24. Allianz Stadium
25. Toyah Willcox

Newsquiz answers, August 2, 2024

1. A dance workshop (Taylor Swift themed) 

2. 17

3. The English Defence League 
4. 22 per cent (specifically 22.3 per cent)
5. £22 billion
6. Winter fuel payments
7. 5 per cent
8. Three
9. A black person
10. Huddersfield
11. Screening a banned documentary (Silenced)

12. The Wall Street Journal
13. Tehran 
14. A Muslim cleric was reportedly planning to buy it to make a Sharia law-based Islamic homeland
15. Edna O’Brien 
16. Delaying kick offs
17. Jamaica
18. Kyle Walker 

19. Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper

20. TV personality Fred Sirieix
21. Tom Daley (men's synchronised 10-metre dive)
22. Strictly Come Dancing
23. Gymnast Simone Biles

24. 32C (90F)

25. John Lennon’s glasses

Newsquiz answers, July 26, 2024

1. Seven

2. James Cleverly
3. The Bibby Stockholm 
4. First minister of Wales (and leader of the Welsh Labour party)
5. The Telegraph newspapers (and Spectator magazine)

6. 59
7. Crooked
8. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
9. Huw Edwards
10. Blue
11. Manchester
12. Wakefield and Barnsley
13. Deaths in drink-drive collisions
14. Petrol and diesel

15. Kent
16. Sunflowers (by Vincent van Gogh)

17. Arson attacks on the French railways before the start of the Olympics.
18. Dracula
19. A video emerged of ‘excessively' whipping a horse
20. Wishing convicted rapist Steven van de Velde the 'best of luck at the Olympics 
21. The Four Tops
22. Ex-footballer Joey Barton

23. Morocco and Argentina
24. The Bluesbreakers
25. Jennifer Aniston

Newsquiz answers, July 19, 2024

1. Butler

2. Thomas (Matthew) Crooks

3. Shoes

4. A sloped roof

5. Bandages on their ears 

6. Islamist country

7. 40 (accept 39)

8. c) introducing voting for 16 and 17-year-olds

9. The two-child benefit cap

10. The UK’s plans to deal with a pandemic

11. Crowdstrike

12. The mother of 19-year-old Jay Slater, whose body was found in Tenerife (Debbie Duncan)

13. Just Stop Oil/Extinction Rebellion

14. Four

15. Leeds

16. Chaperones (members of production staff to be present)
17. Rupert Murdoch’s (Anna Murdoch)

18. Involuntary

19. Sweden 

20. Down a pint of Guinness

21. Sweden

22. 102

23. Three

24. 21

25. Jersey (accept the Channel Islands)

Newsquiz answers, July 12, 2024

1. 411 (accept 412 to include the Speaker)
2. Energy Secretary (Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero)
3. Yvette Cooper
4. The Rwanda deportation scheme
5. Prisons (the criminal justice system)
6. Lord Cameron (shadow foreign secretary)
7. Born in the 21st century (he is 22)
8. Nervous breakdown
9. Trump and Putin 
10. George Clooney
11. Bushey
12. To pay respect to BBC Racing commentator John Hunt whose wife and daughters were killed in the crossbow attack
13. They all left the House of Lords
14. New Popular Front/Nouveau Front Populaire 
15. £19
16. 15 years (and 85 days) 
17. The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
18. Trains (to transport post)
19. Shelley Duvall
20. Orkney

21. The first red post box with the cypher of King Charles III
22. Stopped to kiss his wife
23. Because he looked like England manager Gareth Southgate
24.  a) the men’s singles final at Wimbledon to start two hours earlier ?
25. King Charles

cNewsquiz answers, July 5, 2024

1. Country

2. Keir Starmer (incoming Prime Minister)

3. Liberal Democrats and SNP
4. The Green Party

5. b) Steve Barclay

6. Reform

7. George Galloway (Worker's Party)

8. Lost seats that were held by former Tory Prime Ministers (Thatcher, Cameron, May, Johnson and Truss)

9. Suella Braverman

10. Jeremy Corbyn (former Labour leader who stood as an independent) 

11. Kemi Badenoch

12. A bungee jump

13. Postal ballots

14. A Supreme Court ruling, giving former President Donald Trump partial immunity from prosecution
15. They do not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president 

16. 33 per cent (actually 33.1 per cent)

17. Having sex with an inmate

18. Beryl

19. £50,000

20. Making a lewd crotch-grabbing gesture

21. An inflatable migrant boat artwork by Banksy

22. Sainsbury’s

23. Chess

24. Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu

25. Michael J. Fox

Newsquiz answers, June 28, 2024

1. An alley cat

2. Kamala Harris, vice-president
3. The best we've got (to be the next prime minister of our great country)
4. He would lose
5. Bangladesh
6. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
7. Wetherspoons pubs
8. Actor David Tennant
9. Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman 
10. James Cracknell (former Olympic rower and Tory candidate for Colchester)
11. Crap
12. Saipan (accept the Northern Mariana Islands)
13. 11
14. Manchester
15. A horse
16. Holly Willoughby
17. Hajj
18. Kenya 
19. 30C (30.3C, 86.5F)
20. Eamonn Holmes
21. Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl
22. Slovakia
23. For the birth of his third child
24. India
25. Shania Twain

Newsquiz answers, June 21, 2024

1. Betting on the General Election date 
2. Jeremy Corbyn 
3. Super-majority
4. Phones 4U
5. 2029
6. Two per cent
7. Crossed the English Channel in small boats
8. Tenerife
9. Trooping the Colour
10. He rammed an escaped cow
11. Russia and North Korea
12. Not to prosecute the detectives over investigation’s failings
13. Corrosive substances including acid
14. Stonehenge
15. Lettuce
16. Chef Gordon Ramsay
17. Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine
18. Artificial intelligence (AI) ordering technology 
19. A seizure
20. Croatia and Albania 
21. Drink driving

22. Ian McKellen
23. 88
24. They were all knighted in the King’s Birthday Honours

25. e) none of these?

Newsquiz answers, June 14, 2024

1. £17 billion
2. Silverstone racing circuit
3. Wealth creation
4. The Co-op
5. Potholes
6. c) worn a clown’s nose on the campaign bus
7. Barnsley
8. Sky TV
9. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage
10. Basildon and Billericay
11. Whether he had considered resigning
12. 12
13. Dr Michael Mosely who died on a Greek island
14. A handgun
15. National Rally/Rassemblement National
16. Fake keyboard activity to fool the firm into thinking they were working 
17. The American government
18. A fairground ride
19. Denmark’s
20. Barrow in Furness
21. Iceland
22. Oman
23. It’s women's team 
24. Score at Soccer Aid 
25. Taylor Swift fans dancing

Newsquiz answers, June 7, 2024

1. Democracy
2. Leaving early
3. 23
4. Salford
5. £2,000
6. Nuclear weapons
7. Richard Tice
8. Banana
9. Vaughan Gething (Welsh First Minister) 
10. Symi
11. They were victims of a ‘major’ cyberattack
12. She was the third baby to be abandoned by the same parents
13. Leeds Rhinos
14. Amanda Knox 
15. E Coli
16. Mexico
17. Baby Reindeer
18. Rupert Murdoch
19. Asian hornets
20. Invade the pitch at the Champions League final at Wembley
21. Manchester City
22. a) Kieran Trippier
23. The MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club)
24. Over the Rainbow
25. Gail (Platt, Potter, Tilsley, Platt, Hillman, McIntyre and Rodwell)

Newsquiz answers, May 31, 2024

1. 34
2. Corrupt
3. b) Robert Jenrick
4. Compulsory national service for 18-year-olds
5. Phase out smoking
6. Diane Abbott
7. Voting for 16-year-olds
8. Business
9. She said she would support the Reform candidate in her constituency
10. Junior doctors (British Medical Association)
11. An air strike which killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians in Rafah
12. Royal Mail
13. Papua New Guinea
14. Bournemouth
15. Melanoma
16. Qatar
17. Faggotness/faggotry (frociaggine)
18. Spitfire
19. London Evening Standard
20. Stand as a Tory candidate (for Tunbridge Wells)
21. Giant tortoises 
22. Nicki Minaj
23. 14 years
24. Southampton
25. John Lennon

Newsquiz answers, May 24, 2024

1. Things Can Only Get Better (D:Ream)
2. Jeremy Corbyn (as an Independent)
3. Nigel Farage (president of Reform UK)
4. Because it is during Scotland's school holidays
5. Net migration to the UK
6. 2.3 per cent
7. Kenneth Clarke (former Health Secretary)
8. £210,000
9. Front page

10. Bangkok (Thailand)
11. A Palestinian state
12. Sepsis
13. Maidenhead (Berkshire)
14. A religion
15. In a helicopter crash
16. Giving police more powers to deal with protests
17. Mexico
18. Cazoo
19. Medusa (Beach Club)
20. Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson
21. CCTV footage showing him attacking singer Cassie in a hotel hallway
22. David Wilkie
23. Four
24. Luke Littler (darts)

25. MasterChef

Newsquiz answers, May 17, 2024

1. North Korea and Iran
2. 6,500
3. Maternity and postnatal
4. Nine
5. Labour’s Tax rises
6. Russia
7. Michael Cohen
8. The Jewish community
9. Magna Carta
10. Brixham
11. Slovakia 
12. Hartlepool
13. A synagogue
14. Sir Paul McCartney
15. Rockin’ In The Free World (Neil Young)
16. Jonathan Yeo

17. Plumber 
18. A crocodile (that was attacking her twin sister in Mexico)
19. VAR
20. Nigeria
21. Manchester United
22. Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) and Timothy Spall (The Sixth Commandment)
23. Wilder

24. Netherlands
25. Dr Who 

Newsquiz answers, May 10, 2024

1. Launched a ground operation in Rafah
2. Natalie Elphicke
3. William Shakespeare (he is MP for Stratford-on-Avon)
4. Antisemitic abuse on campus
5. Deputy first minister
6. Right To Buy (for council houses)
7. Losing the West Midlands mayoral election
8. UK airports (outage of passport e-gates)
9. That it was behind a hack of the MoD payroll system
10. Tenth
11. Donald Trump
12. Separate male and female toilets
13. Whooping cough (accept pertussis or 100-day cough)
14. Legoland (Windsor)
15. Hear (after being born deaf)
16. Yosser Hughes
17. CoppaFeel!
18. Shirley Conran
19. Leeds United
20. Hang flower baskets on streetlights
21. Apostrophes
22. Lando Norris
23. Announcing the jury vote for the UK at this year's Eurovision
24. Take That
25. Katy Perry

Newsquiz answers, May 3, 2024

1. 26 per cent
2. Seismic
3. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson
4. Dan Poulter
5. Green
6. Kate Forbes
7. A sword
8. Hainault

9. The UK
10. The Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset
11. Sophie Wessex, the Duchess of Edinburgh
12. The felling of the tree at Sycamore Gap and damage to Hadrian’s Wall
13. New York (Columbia and CCNY)
14. Turkey
15. Gérard Depardieu 

16. He was savaged by a shark
17. A hospital (University College London)
18. HSBC
19. Line of Duty
20. £9.90 

21. The BBC
22. Reader’s Digest (UK edition)
23. Presenter Rageh Omaar (who became ill on air)
24. Olivia Rodrigo

25. Nine

Newsquiz answers, April 26, 2024

1. Ten to twelve (accept 10, 11 and 12)
2. Openly
3. Five
4. Seven
5. TERF 
6. Medical advice
7. Spying for China (espionage)
8. Builders (dropping rubble from a height)
9. Taiwan
10. Nationalise the train network
11. The Democratic Republic of the Congo 
12. Ammanford
13. Laurence Fox
14. Pint-size loser
15. A 12-hour school day
16. Frank Field
17. Coventry City
18. Rutland
19. Jack Whitehall
20. Taste a glass of wine 
21. Australian actress Rebel Wilson
22. Comedian Peter Kay
23. Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
24. Gulls
25. Vera (starring Brenda Blethyn) 

Newsquiz answers, April 19, 2024

1. Six
2. 300
3. 50,000
4. Brussels
5. 2009
6. Bad
7. The Manchester Arena bomb
8. c) Petrol
9. Smacking children 
10. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
11. Embezzlement
12. Ten Years to Save the West
13. The jury in Donald Trump’s trial
14. Dubai
15. The Co-operative Bank 
16. Taylor Swift tickets
17. Copenhagen
18. Roberto Cavalli
19. Actor Hugh Grant
20. Deadly
21. Replays 
22. None (for only the third time this century)
23. BBC's The Apprentice
24. Sunset Boulevard 
25. Show a leg

Newsquiz answers, April 12, 2024

1. Donald Trump
2. The killing of three of his sons and four grandchildren in an air strike
3. Invade the city of Rafah
4. Gender
5. Assaulting a shop worker
6. Adidas (Samba) trainers
7. Good riddance
8. Harold Wilson (former Labour Prime Minister)
9. Bradford
10. Suits
11. A 4.8 magnitude earthquake
12. The Vatican (accept the Pope)
13. Abortion
14. Footballer Harry Kane
15. British postage stamps
16. Jeremy Paxman
17. Eight
18. French soldiers (to mark the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale)
19. Water quality in the River Seine
20. $50,000 (£39,400)
21. Tottenham Hotspur
22. The USA, Mexico and Canada
23. An RNLI crew who were out dealing with an emergency
24. Scrabble
25. He ran the length of Africa

Newsquiz answers, April 5, 2024

1. World Central Kitchen
2. Pope Francis (at his Easter Mass at the Vatican) 
3. Giving the personal numbers of fellow MPs to someone he met on a dating app
4. The Democratic Unionist Party 
5. 250
6. The National Living Wage hourly rate (for employees aged 21 and over)
7. Senior doctors/consultants 
8. Free childcare (15 hours a week for working parents of two-year-olds)
9. J.K. Rowling
10. Offenders from 'deprived backgrounds'
11. He pushed them from a helicopter before it crashed
12. Eye drops
13. Taiwan
14. Tottenham Hotspur
15. The Netherlands
16. Iran 
17. In a motorcycle accident
18. Poo
19. 12
20. Kathleen
21. 44
22. Because of its link to the slave trade
23. Vienna
24. Balmoral Castle

25. Lara Croft

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 29, 2024

1. Preventative
2. Crocus City Hall
3. Four
4. The Francis Scott Key Bridge
5. The USA
6. A wooden spoon
7. Julian Assange
8. Thames Water
9. 37
10. South Africa
11. Tractors
12. Boeing
13. The NHS
14. Diddy (formerly P. Diddy and Puff Diddy)
15. Papa John
16. Gogglebox
17. Crypto currency
18. Birmingham City
19. E.coli
20. She became the first woman to finish one of the world's hardest ultramarathons - the Barkley Marathons in Tennessee
21. Lego
22. Poland
23. Oliver (Colman)
24. Alan Titchmarsh 
25. An owl

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 22, 2024

1. 3.4 per cent

2. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt
3. Women Against State Pension Inequality
4. 87 per cent
5. Leo Varadkar (Ireland)
6. Tried to access Kate Middleton's medical records
7. Apple
8. The Garrick Club
9. Zambia
10. Fentanyl (opioid painkiller)

11. Esther McVey 
12. Cyber flashing (sending a photograph or film of genitals to cause alarm, distress, or humiliation)
13. Greggs
14. 20th
15. A multi-coloured George’s cross
16. A tick
17. Shropshire
18. A Banksy painting (featuring green paint on a wall behind a tree)
19. Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
20. A yellow circle against a blue background as part of its clubcard branding
21. Four
22. Five
23. Chocolate Easter eggs
24. Elton John and Bernie Taupin
25. Punjabi

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 15, 2024

1. Frank Hester
2. 46 times 
3. Reform UK
4. Extremism
5. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps
6. A rematch (the same candidates standing against each other)
7. Amateur photographers
8. Puberty blockers
9. Vinyl records 
10. Hull
11. Poor quality school dinners
12. Unemployed and not looking for work 
13. Cyprus
14. Earl Spencer
15. The M25 (A stretch is closed this weekend for the first time)
16. The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle
17. Style Wednesday
18. 700
19. Jedward 
20. Cruft’s (best of show)
21. Mollie King
22. Shania Twain
23. Cheese
24. Al Pacino
25. Best original song (written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 8, 2024

1. 2p
2. Vaping products
3. Chuckle Brothers
4. Shed a few pounds
5. £15,000
6. Theresa May
7. Jews
8. Stakeknife
9. Dan Wootton 
10. Vermont
11. Sweden
12. The Church of England
13. Apple
14. Abortion
15. Southampton 
16. Haiti
17. Rust
18. Alexei Navalny (Russian opposition leader)
19. Nationwide Building Society 
20. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
21. Grazia 
22. Blur 
23. She got stuck in a shop shutter and was raised seven feet into the air

24. Pride and Prejudice

25. Six

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 1, 2024

1. The Workers Party of Britain
2. Gaza
3. Khan (Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London)
4. MPs (and other elected politicians)
5. Pro-Palestinian protesters
6. For planning ‘black audience only’ nights
7. Symptoms of mental health disorder
8. Farming
9. South Carolina
10. 31,000
11. £80
12. Sainsbury’s
13. Christian Horner (Red Bull F1 team principal)
14. Wayne Couzens
15. Former King Constantine of Greece
16. 36 years
17. Aberdeen
18. From the River to the Sea
19. The Hairy Bikers
20. Mary Poppins
21. Juventus midfielder Paul Pogba
22. Adele
23. Six
24. George Michael

25. The Celebrity Big Brother house

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 23, 2024

1. Allowing an opposition (Labour) amendment (to the SNP motion on the Israel-Hamas war)
2. London City 
3. The Falkland Islands

4. Slow down compensation payments to postmasters

5. Mobile phone

6. A Trident missile fired from a Royal Navy submarine

7. The penal colony where dissident Alexei Navalny died

8. To uphold the decision to strip Shamima Begum of her British citizenship

9. Martha’s (after 13-year-old Martha Mills, who died after doctors failed to admit her to intensive care)

10. Bristol

11. Odysseus

12. The menopause

13. Valencia
14. BT Tower (accept the Post Office Tower)

15. Singer Amy Winehouse

16. Barcelona

17. Sir Chris Hoy

18. Parkinson’s 

19. Coronation Street

20. 76

21. Robin Windsor

22. Taylor Swift

23. £62million (accept £61m ... £61,708,231)

24. Drunk

25. Jelly babies

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 16, 2024

1. Wellingborough
2. Azhar Ali 
3. Recession
4. Four
5. Rafah
6. Tobias Ellwood
7. Paragliders (after Hamas used paragliders to attack Israel)
8. Pay its Nato bills
9. At the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade
10. 69
11. Sussex

12. An American citizen
13. Deter people from crossing the Channel in small boats
14. Shoplifting
15. The Lioness line and the Windrush line
16. Anita Roddick
17. Bradford
18. Tea
19. Their frozen eggs
20. University of Bristol
21. The Super Bowl
22. Ivory Coast

23. A bass guitar

24. Sarajevo

25. Cat Deeley and Ben Shephard

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 9, 2024

1. Sandringham

2. NFL (National Football League/American football)

3. A woman
4. PopCon (Popular Conservatism)
5. Broadcaster Piers Morgan
6. £28billion
7. Iraq and Syria
8. £20,000
9. Bristol
10. Tucker Carlson
11. Mexico
12. Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)
13. She was attacked by his XL Bully dogs
14. Taylor Swift’s (for sharing her flight information online)
15. Finnair
16. Escape To The Country
17. EastEnders
18. Barry John
19. Blue cards (for ten-minute sin bins)
20. Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell 
21. A widow
22. He was taken into custody after an altercation
23. Four
24. New Jersey
25. A polar bear (sleeping on an iceberg)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 2, 2024

1. Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlet Jenkinson
2. Cutting taxes
3. Palestinian state
4. Mike Freer
5. Disposable vapes
6. Scotland's First Minister
7. Republican First Minister of Northern Ireland
8. 70 million
9. Clapham 
10. 14 years
11. Rolling their eyes
12. A crossbow
13. Bristol
14. Three
15. 36
16. Implanted a wireless chip into a human brain
17. Martin Bashir (over the Princess Diana interview)
18. Maidstone United
19. Belfast
20. Singing gospel songs outside a church
21. Ferrari 
22. A monkey (a Japanese macaque)
23. Mark Knopfler 
24. Alison Hammond
25. Traitor (in the BBC series)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 26, 2024

1. Sir Simon Clarke
2. Iceberg
3. The proposed treaty with Rwanda

4. Citizen
5. A (fucking) clown
6. Nottingham

7. 25,000 
8. Earwax
9. Saturday
10. Ten
11. Nikki Haley
12. Japan
13. Nitrogen gas
14. H&M
15. 90 seconds
16. Manager of Liverpool FC Jurgen Klopp
17. The Duchess of York (who has skin cancer)
18. Boney M
19. Snow
20. Former England striker Michael Owen
21. 13
22. Chelsea and Liverpool
23. Avengers (he was mistaken for Tom Holland)
24. Dragon’s Den

25. Raye

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 19, 2024

1. 44 (320 votes to 276)
2. Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith 
3. d) Jacob Rees-Mogg
4. Contribute to the compensation of sub-postmasters
5. Port Talbot
6. Iran and North Korea

7. An enlarged prostate
8. Taiwan
9. Iowa

10. Measles
11. Rochdale

12. Harry and Meghan naming their daughter Lilibet (and claiming the Queen was supportive)
13. Skegness

14. A newborn baby girl
15. Pakistan
16. Joey Barton (ex-footballer) 
17. Annie Nightingale
18. New Zealand (Jacinda Ardern)
19. £8million
20. Play American football (in the NFL)
21. Snotting
22. Geneva
23. Ajax (Amsterdam)
24. A penguin
25. The option of a 250ml glass of wine

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 12, 2024

1. Exonerated and compensated
2. Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey
3. Mafia gangsters
4. Yemen
5. £2.5billion
6. The Royal Marines
7. Sweden
8. 1.48C
9. Alaska Airlines
10. A fuel leak
11. Don’t Give Up On Us and Silver Lady
12. (Der) Kaiser
13. A surgeon/doctor
14. Headlight glare
15. 34
16. Ecuador
17. Wine
18. A helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon
19. As part of a No More Red campaign against knife crime
20. Pancreas
21. James Morrison 
22. Idris Elba 
23. Calvin Klein
24. Leeds

25. Vaginas (vulvas)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 5, 2024

1. The Noto peninsula

2. Coastguard

3. Houthi Rebels

4. Beirut

5. Iran

6. Drones
7. January (28) 2025

8. The ITV1 drama into the sub-postmasters scandal (She was Post Office CEO at the time)

9. Margrethe 
10. By an avalanche in France
11. Fruit and vegetable
12. Primrose Hill
13. Birmingham 
14. Kids Company
15. 56

16. They were all mentioned in new Jeffrey Epstein documents
17. Glynnis Johns
18. Paralympian Oscar Pistorius

19. Luke Humphries
20. Receive a New Year Honour (the British Empire Medal for services to the prevention of child abuse)
21. Punchbag
22. Mickey and Minnie Mouse

23. John Pilger, who died aged 84
24. Birmingham City
25. Liverpool and Glasgow Celtic 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 29, 2023

1. Protect
2. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury
3. Sarah Ferguson 
4. March 6
5. Hospitals
6. Gerrit
7. Up Yours Delors
8. Adolf Hitler
9. Orange netting
10. Maine
11. Wine and champagne
12. Belfast
13. A road sign by the artist Banksy
14. Bill Granger
15. Jack Grealish
16. Parasite
17. Sheffield
18. Manchester United
19. Yellowstone National Park

20. The Antiques Roadshow
21. Referee a Premier League game (Sheffield United v Luton Town)
22. Shakira
23. Dancing On Ice 
24. Peter Barlow

25. Last Christmas by Wham!

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 22, 2023

1. 20,000
2. Charles University
3. 35 per cent
4. Baroness Michelle Mone admitting she lied about her involvement in a PPE contract
5. Wellingborough
6. Youth transition/gender issues
7. British Sign Language

8. 3.9 per cent
9. Dentistry (on the NHS)
10. Shipments of oil through the Red Sea 
11. When they are sentenced
12. Storm Pia
13. Piers Morgan (ex-Daily Mirror editor)
14. Colorado
15. Rudy Giuliani 
16. Ecuador
17. Luton defender Tom Lockyer collapsed and was taken to hospital

18. Oldham

19. Dignitas
20. Nuno Espirito Santo

21. Cricketer Stuart Broad and world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson
22. A Question of Sport
23. He was the youngest player ever to progress to the third round of the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace
24. Short hair

25. Representing the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 15, 2023

1. 44
2. Mark Francois
3. Death
4. 5.25 per cent
5. Mark Drakeford, Welsh First Minister
6. Fossil fuels
7. Zara
8. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps
9. 35 days
10. A suicide on the Bibby Stockholm
11. Norwich
12. Mail on Sunday
13. Toulouse
14. Hungary
15. A referee was punched to the ground by a club president at the end of a match
16. For playing Wham's Last Christmas and angering fans taking part in Whamaggedon
17. Love Story
18. McDonald’s
19. Shirley Anne Field
20. Blackpool 
21. Moths 
22. Referee a Premier League game (Fulham v Burnley)
23. Olivia
24. Succession
25. Tony Bellew

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 8, 2023

1. The (Safety of) Rwanda Bill

2. £38,700
3. Long Covid
4. Your apologies
5. Grimsby Town
6. Tony Blair and Clement Attlee
7. The BBC TV licence fee
8. Antony Blinken  
9. Paddington
10. The Eiffel Tower
11. Glenys Kinnock
12. Make private payments for police protection
13. Indonesia
14. Peaky Blinders 
15. Taylor Swift
16. The Christmas tree sent to Trafalgar square each year

17. 15
18. Ronnie O’Sullivan
19. 6-0
20. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads
21. Giving the middle finger to the camera
22. Rizz
23. They were in the display that won The Turner Prize 
24. Joey Barton

25. Frankie Dettori

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 1, 2023

1. The Netherlands

2. Endgame
3. Marbles
4. Dubai (UAE)
5. India
6. Introducing lockdown three weeks earlier
7. Dominic Cummings
8. 28
9. Her ninth

10. Swine flu
11. Nottingham
12. An Ofsted inspection
13. 100
14. The Himalayas
15. Former Chancellor Alastair Darling (who died aged 70)
16. Chelsea
17. Sir Elton John
18. Brookside
19. The Telegraph (Daily and Sunday)
20. Mental wellbeing
21. Dublin
22. Charlie’s Bar
23. Grace Dent and Jamie Lynn Spears
24. Fairytale in New York by The Pogues (after the death of singer Shane MacGowan)

25. Two giant pandas (Tian Tian and Yang Guang)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 24, 2023

1. National Insurance (main rate)
2. 8.5 per cent
3. Eat Out To Help Out
4. Bamboozled
5. Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam (former deputy chief medical officer)
6. Stockton 
7. Out of respect for four teenagers killed in a car crash in north Wales
8. Dublin
9. Qatar

10. Liverpool
11. Antisemitism
12. Measles
13. OpenAI
14. Former Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius
15. Argentina
16. Geert Wilders 
17. Rapper P Diddy (Sean Combs)
18. Extreme heat (that caused the death of a fan) 
19. Shakira (Colombian pop star)

20. Annabel Giles
21. Red wine (including a small glass)
22. Opponents Barnsley were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player
23. India
24. Amazeballs

25. Blackpink 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 17, 2023

1. b) He needed to resign and call a General Election
2. China
3. Ukraine

4. Victoria Atkins
5. Common sense
6. 56
7. Five (a unanimous decision)

8. Vladimir Putin
9. 4.6 per cent
10. An £11,000 roaming charge (they were watching football on his official iPad while on holiday) 
11. Climbing on a war memorial
12. Derbyshire
13. Indi (Gregory)
14. Hounslow
15. 12
16. For fears of a volcanic eruption in Iceland
17. Ten
18. Sir Bobby Charlton’s funeral
19. Food poverty (the Coronation Food Project)
20. A lion was on the loose
21. Hotel Chocolat
22. Get a life
23. Vernon Kay
24. In the jungle (on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here)
25. I Want To Break Free by Queen

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 10, 2023

1. The Times
2. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
3. Home Secretary

4. 21 
5. The Cenotaph
6. Lifestyle choice 
7. Four hours

8. Boris Johnson (UK) and Scott Morrison (Australia)
9. Graveyard
10. Matt Hancock (as Health secretary)
11. Rape
12. Rabbit 
13. Leeds
14. Scunthorpe
15. Suffragettes (in 1914)
16. Trampolining
17. Carole Vorderman
18. The 7/7 terror attacks 
19. An eyeball
20. Marks & Spencer
21. Reach
22. Breast cancer
23. The Caramac bar
24. Binge drinkers
25. Fiona

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 3, 2023

1. Their fate

2. Dominic Cummings

3. Who should live or die (if the NHS became overwhelmed during the pandemic)

4. From the river to the sea

5. Hate

6. Dagestan

7. Mice

8. The Rafah

9. Jersey

10. 54

11. Bletchley

12. Job

13. Nottingham Panthers

14. Close rail ticket offices

15. Alba 

16. Luis Díaz (Liverpool)

17. The Palestinian flag

18. Three

19. Former US Vice President Mike Pence

20. Kenya

21. Mike Ashley (former owner of Newcastle United FC)

22. GB News
23. Be sent off in a World Cup final

24. Eight

25. Sir Peter Jackson

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 27, 2023

1. Jihad
2. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
3. Touching hands (and saying Shalom) with her masked Hamas captor
4. Jordan (Queen Rania)
5. Liberation
6. Rape and possession of controlled substances
7. Lewiston
8. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
9. A dinosaur skeleton
10. The rise in shoplifting
11. Sepsis
12. Verity
13. Alaska Airlines 
14. Her lesbian nana
15. Iceland (Katrín Jakobsdóttir)
16. Geoff Hurst

17. (John) Shaft 
18. Coronation Street
19. The floor/planks 
20. To make them plastic-free
21. Skin colour (which he said was too white)
22. 31 years (and 165 days)

23. Sri Lanka
24. Amanda Abbington

25. Now And Then

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 20, 2023

1. Al-Ahli (Arab) Hospital
2. Team
3. Six
4. Darkest hour
5. Saudi Arabia 
6. Nadine Dorries
7. Tamworth
8. Walked out of the count without listening to their rivals' victory speech
9. Brechin
10. Peter Bone
11. Doctor Death
12. Two Swedish fans were shot dead in a terror attack
13. Uganda
14. The Beatles
15. Scotland’s council taxes
16. Drones
17. Drop The Dead Donkey
18. Wine (reducing the minimum 8.5 per cent ABV)
19. The Guardian
20. Britney Spears
21. Kirsty Wark
22. A cup of tea
23. Scotland
24. Squash and cricket

25. Doctors and Steph’s Packed Lunch

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 13, 2023

1. Nova (Supernova/Tribe of Nova)

2. Terrorists/terrorism 

3. Iran

4. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly

5. Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf

6. 1.5 million

7. Yes, In My Back Yard

8. Economist

9. Sparkle with Starmer

10. Gets her keys out
11. Lisa Cameron

12. 14

13. The black guy

14. Luton

15. £800,000 

16. Marshmallows

17. Singapore
18. The prisons are full

19. Bees
20. 34

21. Hops

22. Birmingham City

23. UK and Ireland

24. Australia

25. Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 6, 2023

1. Hurricane 
2. £36billion
3. Gender ideology
4. Smartphones
5. A by-election triumph (in Rutherglen & Hamilton West)
6. Mocked the death of Sunderland mascot Bradley Lowery
7. Abercrombie & Fitch
8. Soliciting to commit murder and kidnap of Holly Willoughby
9. Nancy Pelosi
10. Treason
11. Blackpool
12. Bedbugs
13. Tupac Shakur
14. John Lewis
15. Venice
16. Oxfordshire
17. Manchester City
18. Golfer Rory McIlroy (at the Ryder Cup in Rome)
19. Les Miserables
20. Fell off a horse

21. His red card/sending off at the 1998 World Cup and the reaction by fans

22. Commander

23. Wheelchair rugby
24. Les Dennis 

25. Big Brother

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 29, 2023

1. Existential 

2. £3,500

3. Hadrian’s Wall

4. Croydon (South London)

5. Sick days (staff being absent from work)

6. The M53

7. Join a picket line (of car workers) 

8. Rotterdam

9. Laurence Fox 

10. Iraq

11. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

12. A gargoyle of the council leader

13. Bestiality (accept the rape, torture and killing of dogs)

14. Agnes

15. Blue Whale 

16. Footballer Marcus Rashford

17. There were eight different goalscorers 

18. Jill Dando

19. Vibrating anal beads

20. (Albus) Dumbledore

21. FremantleMedia

22. Australia 

23. Rome 

24. Alison Hammond

25. Taylor Swift

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 22, 2023

1. Plain Sight
2. Rasputin
3. Rumble
4. 2035

5. Metal and plastic
6. The 20mph driving limit
7. 6.7 per cent
8. Portacabin/Portakabin
9. Versailles
10. Table tennis
11. Fox and News Corp
12. Barry Bennell
13. They were wearing Nazi military uniforms 
14. Durham (although it is really a city and a county)
15. 39
16. £600,000
17. Jon Venables
18. Football Focus
19. It came off his head
20. Andre Onana
21. Venezuela
22. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau
23. Everton
24. Visitors have to squeeze between two nude models to enter the exhibition

25. Amy Dowden (who has breast cancer)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 15, 2023

1. Mel Stride
2. American XL bully 
3. Martha’s
4. Tobias Ellwood
5. BP
6. Surgeons 
7. Spying for China
8. (High) Atlas Mountains
9. Derna
10. Riding a bike
11. Leeds and Bradford
12. They received 'substantial damages’ and an apology from the Met for their arrest during the vigil for Sarah Everard 
13. 20p
14. Measles
15. Wilko
16. Black Sea
17. Mike Yarwood
18. Trampolining
19. George Ford
20. 182
21. Alastair Stewart
22. Rick Stein
23. Harry Maguire (England footballer who scored an own goal against Scotland)
24. An iron

25. Vogue World

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 8, 2023

1. Education Secretary Gillian Keegan
2. Cowboy builders
3. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete
4. Levelling Up (Housing and Communities)
5. Men
6. Delhi
7. By strapping himself to the bottom of a food delivery van
8. Wandsworth
9. Equal pay claims
10. Maintaining the triple lock on state pensions
11. Nottingham 
12. Harrods and Fulham FC
13. Tesco
14. Skiathos (Greece)
15. Roy Keane
16. Pakistan 
17. £6.7million
18. Wegovy
19. Son Heung-min (Spurs) and Evan Ferguson (Brighton)
20. Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
21. Argentina and South Africa
22. Cream pies
23. Hackney Diamonds
24. Danny Cipriani (former England rugby player)

25. Sarah Lancashire (for Happy Valley)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 1, 2023

1. Energy Secretary
2. Insecure and unstable
3. They are made with a 'crumbling' concrete prone to collapse 
4. France
5. Beijing (China)
6. Zombie 
7. Blade runners
8. Electronic tags
9. d) £14,600
10. Liverpool
11. Notting Hill Carnival
12. Animal cruelty (she was kicking and striking a horse)
13. He was hit by a train
14. Mallorca
15. Alcohol
16. Gabon 
17. Johannesburg
18. 17 years
19. Fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine
20. Fuerteventura
21. Aston Villa (after the game against Burnley)
22. She was on hunger strike
23. A totem pole
24. A (live) worm
25. Sir Elton John

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 25, 2023

1. Nurturing and caring

2. A law compelling defendants to attend their sentence hearing

3. A mugshot (arrest booking photo)

4. That his wife owned shares in a childcare firm that benefited from the Budget

5. Go to university (study law at the University of Leeds)

6. North-East England

7. 17
8. South Yorkshire
9. Broadcaster Nicky Campbell

10. Treated sewage water

11. Womb (accept uterus)

12. A plane crash

13. His parents died after their car crashed into a river

14. The South Pole
15. Chris Evans 
16. 18

17. A cable car (dangling 900ft above a ravine)

18. He kissed a player on the lips at the Women's World Cup final

19. Ironman 

20. Sean Dyche (Everton)

21. Discharge treated waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific
22. Josh Kerr

23. Replica goalkeeper shirts worn in the Women’s World Cup
24. Golden Glove (for best goalkeeper)

25. Cheetah

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 18, 2023

1. 3-1
2. Spain
3. Legionella bacteria was found on board
4. Productivity (increases)
5. The pension triple lock
6. Junior doctors
7. A* and A grades at A-level
8. The Omagh bomb which killed 29 people
9. Newborn babies
10. American journalists

11. Seven
12. 88
13. That Goldenballs was his nickname
14. The British Museum (over missing treasures)
15. A campsite/tents
16. Bayern Munich
17. Tenerife
18. Helen Smart (accept Helen Don-Duncan)
19. A go-karting track
20. Leonard Bernstein
21. Jamie Oliver (and his wife Jools)
22. Footballer Marcus Rashford

23. Mason Greenwood, who had sexual assault charges against him dropped, was allowed to stay at the club
24. The Killers
25. Britney Spears

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 11, 2023

1. A Freedom of Information (FoI) request
2. Fuck off back to France
3. Theresa Villiers
4. A gipsy and traveller site
5. Oil boilers
6. 65
7. China
8. Maui 
9. Japan
10. Edinburgh
11. Chief Scout Bear Grylls 

12. Mushrooms
13. Placebo 
14. Three years
15. Britain’s wonkiest pub (the Crooked House) which was demolished after a fire
16. Nick Owen
17. Southend on Sea
18. A40 (between Cheltenham and Gloucester)
19. The Band
20. Colombia
21. Lauren James
22. Miss a penalty (and laugh) which saw US knocked out of the World Cup
23. They went into space (on the Virgin Galactic)
24. Meet Me at the Lake
25. Angela Rippon (former newscaster) 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 4, 2023

1. 5.25 per cent
2. North Sea oil and gas licences
3. The Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge at Portland Port in Dorse
4. Margaret Ferrier
5. A fifth of French police will be on annual holiday
6. Wild camping
7. 44p
8. Pakistan
9. The roof of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s home in North Yorkshire
10. Wilko 
11. 6.5 per cent
12. The 2020 election defeat
13. France
14. Mastectomy scars 
15. Hong Kong
16. Cyprus
17. Birmingham City
18. Sophie
19. James Martin
20. His father
21. Cardi B
22. 6-1
23. Catherine Tyldesley (formerly of Coronation Street)
24. Stuart Broad (who took the final two wickets to beat Australia in the fifth test)
25. Love Island

Newsquiz answers, Friday, July 28, 2023

1. Talk to the BBC about Nigel Farage's account being closed (she was chief executive of NatWest)

2. Marquees (large tents) to house 2,000 people

3. Michael Gove (Levelling Up Secretary)

4. £12.50

5. British Gas

6. Unilever

7. George Alagiah who died aged 67

8. Boiling
9. Sharing child sex abuse images 

10. Spain

11. Not having a bus ticket (fare evasion)

12. Israel

13. Niger
14. Phone hacking

15. Evia

16. At war

17. The Pope (Pope John Paul II)

18. The Twitter name and the blue bird from the company’s HQ

19. The green man on pedestrian crossings

20. Edelweiss

21. The 1975
22. Be transferred for £1million (from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest)

23. Take a seat as a life peer in the House of Lords
24. Haiti and Denmark

25. Barbenheimer (a merger of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, July 21, 2023

1. Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson’s old constituency) 
2. 25
3. Rip-off
4. Ben Wallace (Defence Secretary)
5. The two-child cap on claiming benefits
6. Afghanistan
7. The compensation scheme for Post Office workers affected by the Horizon IT scandal
8. McDonald’s
9. LGBT veterans forced out of the military for being gay
10. Tata (accept Jaguar Land Rover)
11. Alzheimer’s
12. Export grain through the Black Sea
13. Ryan Giggs (former Manchester United footballer and ex-Wales manager)

14. Elton (Hercules) John
15. Compassion
16. A Rolex watch (worth £17,000)
17. Auckland
18. Tony Bennett
19. They were rescued after being lost in the Pacific Ocean for three months
20. Amsterdam
21. Je t’aime (moi non plus)
22. Swans
23. Carlos Alcaraz
24. University Challenge
25. Haiti

Newsquiz answers, Friday, July 14, 2023

1. Vicky Flind
2. Crack cocaine 
3. Victoria Derbyshire
4. 6.5 per cent
5. 1,700
6. Airport drop-offs
7. Amazon (delivery service for weapons)
8. Cluster bombs
9. Vilnius (Lithuania)
10. Drive to the homes of absent pupils and bring them into school
11. Film and TV industry (the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists and the Writers Guild of America)
12. Tewkesbury
13. 39
14. Cerberus
15. Actor Kevin Spacey (who denies charges of sexual assault)

16. Frank (Alfred Odysseus)
17. Dele Alli (Everton and ex-Tottenham)
18. Testosterone levels
19. Orange confetti 
20. India
21. Pink (blush)
22. Reach the Wimbledon final while unseeded
23. Open champagne
24. Lando Norris (2nd) and Lewis Hamilton (3rd)

25. Pink (for the Barbie movie)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, July 7, 2023

1. 6p
2. London Underground
3. Ticket offices
4. Eight
5. Oracy
6. In his crease (in an exchange over the stumping of England cricketer Jonny Bairstow in the Ashes)
7. Murals of cartoon characters

8. Jenin
9. 15.8C (60.4F) 
10. Wimbledon (South London)
11. Millwall 
12. Charging an electric bike
13. Threads
14. A limit to the number of tweets users can read in a day
15. Iced coffees
16. Vietnam (the map depicts contested Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea)
17. Wigs
18. Jigsaw puzzles
19. Buck Moon (as male deer begin to regrow their antlers in July)
20. Broadcaster Fiona Phillips
21. Cobra
22. The Fiesta
23. The Colosseum in Rome
24. Forest Green Rovers
25. A reboot of the programme Byker Grove (they are to be executive producers)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, June 30, 2023

1. Four years (they are currently five years)
2. Waging a campaign to undermine the Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson
3. Sending asylum seekers to Rwanda
4. Body bags
5. Thames Water
6. The environment/climate change
7. The contest to become London Mayor
8. Boots the Chemist
9. Elton John
10. Belarus
11. Accidental death
12. English cricket
13. Nigel Farage, former Brexit Party leader
14. Sarah Ferguson
15. Aspartame
16. California
17. Craig Brown
18. A Just Stop Oil protester
19. 35 (from 30)
20. Tourette’s
21. Homewards
22. Madonna
23. The Munros
24. Stormzy
25. Dragon’s Den

Newsquiz answers, Friday, June 23, 2023

1. Seven 

2. d) Michael Gove (he abstained)

3. A newspaper columnist (with the Daily Mail)

4. Mingle and jingle

5. Oceangate

6. Five 

7. 5 per cent

8. Mortgages

9. David Warburton

10. Oil and gas extraction (in the North Sea)

11. 14,000

12. Former Prime Minister David Cameron

13. Five

14. Antidepressants

15. Honduras

16. The Olympic Games (Paris 2024)

17. Windrush (75 years since the first crossing from the Caribbean)

18. The murders of three people who died in attacks in Nottingham 

19. A cat

20. The pitch was waterlogged

21. Sir Alex Ferguson

22. A cage fight

23. Declaration

24. Frankie Dettori

25. They were awarded MBEs in the King’s birthday honours

Newsquiz answers, Friday, June 16, 2023

1. 90
2. Sir Bernard Jenkin
3. Kangaroo
4. Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams
5. Eight
6. Hockey
7. The university cricket team
8. School caretaker/site manager
9. Celtic (1967) and Manchester United (1999)
10. Nicola Sturgeon, former Scottish First Minister
11. Classified documents (more than 100) 
12. 28 months
13. Rape (and indecent assault)
14. Four
15. Bunga bunga
16. E.ON Next
17. Forty 
18. Labour MP 
19. Ronnie Knight (former husband of Barbara Windsor)
20. A heatwave
21. Kent and Sussex
22. Leeds United and Manchester United
23. Jack Grealish (Manchester City footballer)
24. Miriam Margolyles
25. Jodie Comer

Newsquiz answers, Friday, June 9, 2023

1. He was celebrating his daughter Lilibet's second birthday
2. Rock bottom
3. The Atlantic Declaration
4. Bahrain
5. Ian Blackford
6. Brighton (Pavilion)
7. Mike Pence 
8. Nova Kakhovka
9. Signalling failure
10. Annecy
11. Telegraph (Telegraph Media Group)
12. Aubergine
13. 31 
14. Matt Hancock (former Health Secretary)
15. 97 not enough
16. Amber
17. Pope Francis 
18. Miss and Sir
19. Headphones (or AirPods)
20. The fastest FA Cup final goal (12/13 seconds)
21. 43 (1980)
22. She had breathing difficulties caused by smog
23. Julie Goodyear
24. Lewis Capaldi

25. Norwegian

Newsquiz answers, Friday, June 2, 2023

1. Hand over all documents requested by the Covid inquiry
2. Vapes
3. Geraint Davies
4. The passport e-gate system
5. Houses in the UK
6. Dorset Belle
7. The Prince's Trust
8. The British Soap Awards
9. Turkey
10. Jose Mourinho
11. A sandbag
12. Artificial intelligence
13. The Scottish Highlands (at Cannich near Inverness) 
14. Streaming Premier League football matches (to tens of thousands of people for £10 subscriptions)
15. Uganda
16. Transphobic
17. UFO (unidentified flying object)
18. Canada
19. Emily Morgan
20. Luton Town
21. Venice
22. Donkey
23. Lake Windermere
24. Charlie

25. Chop chop

Newsquiz answers, Friday, May 26, 2023

1. A one-to-one speed awareness course
2. Chequers
3. Former Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab
4. £2,074
5. Misogyny
6. Bakhmut
7. Portuguese police spent three days hunting there for evidence over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 
8. Ely
9. Sofa
10. Glasgow
11. 10 Downing Street
12. Ron DeSantis 
13. Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh
14. To avert an IRA assassination attempt on the Queen (a plot to drop an object on the royal yacht)
15. Two Little Boys, Sun Arise, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport and Stairway To Heaven
16. Real Madrid
17. A pilot of the Caribbean - an Jamaican volunteer who served in the RAF during World War Two
18. Writer Martin Amis who died aged 73
19. Win the title for three-straight seasons (Manchester United have done it twice, 1998-01 and 2006-09)
20. Lee Rigby’s (the soldier murdered by terrorists in Woolwich ten years ago)
21. Singer Tina Turner who died aged 83
22. Brighton and Hove Albion
23. Hinge and Bracket
24. Sign an autograph
25. Football pundit Graeme Souness 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, May 19, 2023

1. 2.5 million

2. Hiroshima
3. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
4. That EU nationals who have lived in the UK long-term can't vote
5. BT
6. Royal Mail
7. The Queen's funeral (and related events)
8. £10billion
9. Stellantis
10. Holiday village chain Center Parcs
11. Twelve
12. Near catastrophic
13. Betting
14. Flooding
15. Announcing four children had been found alive after a plane crash (when they hadn’t) 
16. Red slippers worn by Judy Garland's character Dorothy in the The Wizard of Oz
17. The Smiths
18. The Bill
19. Alkmaar fans attacked the West Ham family stand
20. Manchester and Milan (City and Inter)
21. Sting
22. Leeds
23. Kate Winslet (for I Am Ruth which also featured her daughter Mia Threapleton)
24. The Sunday Times 35 under 35 Rich List
25. Loreen

Newsquiz answers, Friday, May 12, 2023

1. Six

2. Terribly white

3. A couple of painkillers

4. b) 28 hours and 42 minutes

5. The Duchess of Sussex

6. Chelsy Davy

7. $5million

8. The Government’s Illegal Migration Bill 

9. Turning point 

10. Taiwan
11. Kemi Badenoch (Business and Trade Secretary)

12. Shingles and impetigo

13. Tesco (John Allan)

14. Plaid Cymru

15. TransPennine Express

16. John Lewis
17. George Santos

18. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan

19. The Scottish National Party (on Scottish independence)

20. Three (genetic) parents

21. House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle

22. Saudi Arabia

23. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

24. d) Ireland

25. Phillip Schofield (about Holly Willoughby)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, May 5, 2023

1. Homage

2. Republic

3. The Dog and Duck
4. Mind the gap
5. Buckingham Palace
6. The need for voters to show ID
7. 22
8. The Conservative candidate died 
9. Sue Gray (civil servant who has been appointed as Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff)
10. Five per cent
11. BP and Shell
12. Cold calling
13. Alzheimer’s
14. Google
15. Drones
16. Belgrade
17. Listeria
18. Stephen Tompkinson
19. Masterchef
20. Gordon Lightfoot
21. A water bottle (with a graphic showing the direction that penalty takers usually took)
22. Nine (Bolton, Newcastle, Blackburn, West Ham, Sunderland, Crystal Palace, West Brom and Leeds)
23. Donald Trump
24. The first player to make a maximum 147 break
25. Serena Williams

Newsquiz answers, Friday, April 28, 2023

1. The Royal College of Nursing
2. BBC Chairman
3. Worse off (accept poorer)
4. Cyprus
5. Racism
6. Microsoft
7. c) US President Joe Biden
8. Baroness Floella Benjamin
9. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers
10. Prezzo
11. HMV (His Master’s Voice)
12. Levi Bellfield
13. James Corden (on his final episode of The Late Late Show)
14. Barbie doll with Down’s syndrome features
15. Tucker Carlson
16. Wrexham FC (Hollywood actor Ryan Reynolds after the club regained their football league status)
17. Tottenham Hotspur (after a 6-1 defeat at Newcastle)
18. Dame Edna Everage
19. Mary’s Boy Child 

20. Seven
21. Jerry Springer who died aged 79
22. Let's Get it On
23. The London Marathon
24. Bamburgh

25. Scare off seagulls (the advert was for Seagull Deterrents)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, April 21, 2023

1. Justice Secretary (and Lord Chancellor)
2. Bullying
3. Maths
4. Koru Kids
5. 19 per cent (19.1 per cent)

6. Smart motorways

7. Treasurer
8. Both ways
9. Animal Rising
10. Brecon Beacons (to Bannau Brycheiniog National Park) 
11. The vaccine (Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab)
12. Fox News
13. Texas
14. Sudan
15. A 16th birthday party
16. Wall Street Journal
17. Orange powder
18. Feral cats
19. The Script
20. Wagatha Christie 
21. A ship 
22. She travelled part of the race (2.5 miles) by car
23. A conservatory
24. The Prince of Wales (William)

25. Their blue ticks on Twitter

Newsquiz answers, Friday, April 14, 2023

1. a) 18
2. The Black and Tans
3. Four days
4. A luxury motor home (Campervan)
5. He was arrested by the FBI for allegedly leaking US defence and intelligence documents on Ukraine
6. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
7. Quit smoking
8. Government funded media
9. Four
10. Tesco
11. Storm Noa
12. A bank (the Old National Bank)
13. Israel
14. Bradford
15. Remove gambling sponsorship from the front of shirts
16. Tupperware
17. 93
18. Cows
19. A brown bear
20. For allegedly elbowing a player in the face
21. A collection of golliwog dolls
22. S Club 7
23. Salt
24. Burnley
25. Members of the audience refused to stop singing

Newsquiz answers, Friday, April 7, 2023

1. 34

2. Hating
3. Nothing
4. Home Secretary Suella Braverman
5. 98 per cent
6. Nigel Lawson (former Conservative Chancellor)
7. That adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison
8. A barge that will house 500 people while their asylum claims are processed
9. The Times
10. Finland
11. 42
12. Robert Jenrick (Immigration minister)
13. Arthur’s Seat
14. A statuette
15. Sheffield
16. Madeleine McCann
17. Phillip Schofield (after his brother was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy) 
18. Rape (of a 13-year-old girl in a Scottish park)
19. Ticks (Ixodida)
20. Blue
21. Frank Lampard (as caretaker manager of Chelsea FC)
22. Protect the privacy of children under 13 
23. Sunday April 23
24. Brazil
25. Jodie Comer

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 31, 2023

1. Ecstatic

2. Powering Up 

3. Nitrous oxide (accept laughing gas)

4. Severe
5. Military bases

6. 52 per cent

7. Rural Affairs Secretary

8. Lily Savage (the drag queen he played)

9. Grayson

10. The Bundestag (accept Germany’s parliament)

11. The Covenant School

12. One dollar

13. Stormy Daniels (former adult performer given hush money by Donald Trump)

14. Pork

15. Associated Newspapers (accept DMGT and Daily Mail)

16. Cambridgeshire

17. Charles Bronson

18. Cath Kidston

19. The development of artificial intelligence (AI)

20. A horseshoe

21. Linda Nolan

22. Alison Hammond

23. Scott McTominay

24. Vampire Survivors

25. Sir David Jason

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 24, 2023

1. Harriet Harman
2. Marsupials 
3. 22
4. a) Kwasi Kwarteng
5. Nigel Farage
6. £5 million (£4,766million)
7. 4.25 per cent
8. Peter Murrell
9. Food banks
10. Mariupol 
11. The Hague
12. Poland
13. Bordeaux
14. The Metropolitan Police

15. John Lewis
16. Recklessly crashed into him on a ski slope
17. Birmingham and London
18. Give a kidney to their daughter
19. Ex-porn actress Stormy Daniels

20. Edinburgh
21. Top Gear (Andrew ‘Freddie' Flintoff was injured in December at a test track) 
22. Alastair Stewart
23. 54
24. A boxing gym
25. Taylor Swift

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 17, 2023

1. Thirty
2. 11p
3. Stagnation
4. Five per cent
5. Pret a Manger
6. Silicon Valley Bank
7. Refuge
8. Being a refugee ('having to flee your home from persecution or war to seek refuge in a land far away’)
9. A fleet of nuclear-powered submarines (Aukus)
10. Black Sea
11. Falsely claiming she was raped and trafficked
12. 1,500 (1,539)
13. Caroline Flack
14. Ann Summers
15. Swansea 
16. 64 (from 62)
17. Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)
18. Bill Tidy
19. Crystal Palace (Patrick Vieira)
20. Dress code 
21. Everything Everywhere All At Once
22. France
23. Croatia
24. The Great British Bake Off
25. The carpet at the Oscars

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 10, 2023

1. A detention centre (so migrants can be removed from the French coast)

2. Stop The Boats
3. Blob
4. The language used in Germany in the 30s
5. Boris Johnson’s plan to give a knighthood to his father
6. Crewe

7. Frighten the pants
8. Larisa
9. Indecent exposure
10. Thomas Cashman
11. Cardiff
12. Blackpool
13. d) £15,000 (£14,836)
14. Hamburg
15. Kyle Walker (Manchester City)
16. Duke of Edinburgh
17. The addition of Prince and Princess 
18. Suzy
19. 7-0
20. The image of the Matterhorn mountain peak
21. Mystic Meg
22. Fiddler on the Roof
23. Zulu
24. 36
25. Mae Muller

Newsquiz answers, Friday, March 3, 2023

1. Windsor
2. Steve Baker
3. King Charles meeting European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen after the NI trade deal
4. The Daily Telegraph
5. Isabel Oakeshott
6. Teachers (by then Education Secretary Gavin Williamson)
7. Cats
8. Sue Gray
9. Poland
10. Brighton
11. A train crash that killed more than 50 people
12. The Manchester Arena attack in 2017 which killed 22 people
13. Italy
14. Sleeping outside
15. Frogmore Cottage
16. Gesturing and wearing at her to get off a pavement
17. Betty Boothroyd, the former Speaker who died aged 93
18. Teddy bears (accept soft toys) to be given to children who survived the earthquakes
19. A copy of the Quran
20. Reindeer
21. Newcastle United fans
22. Daffodils 
23. Grimsby Town 
24. The Flying Scotsman steam locomotive
25. Arctic Monkeys and Guns N’ Roses

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 24, 2023

1. The white flag and the blue and yellow flag
2. New Start
3. Roll over
4. Painted the road in the colours of the Ukrainian flag
5. Thérèse Coffey, Environment Secretary
6. The Northern Ireland protocol bill
7. Improving the NHS
8. The Royal College of Nursing
9. Turnips
10. Ex-president Jimmy Carter
11. ITV and Sky
12. Omagh
13. Digital ID cards 
14. Trafficked (for sexual exploitation)
15. Kate Forbes
16. Playing rugby
17. John Motson, who died aged 77
18. 'Personal relationships' with students 
19. Accrington Stanley
20. World of Sport
21. Sheffield
22. The TikTok app
23. Gobblefunk
24. All Quiet on the Western Front
25. Vernon Kay

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 17, 2023

1. Party and country
2. Eight (and three months) 
3. Ex-US President Donald Trump
4. Alcohol
5. Jeremy Corbyn
6. Warrington
7. £3.3billion
8. NatWest
9. Market Harborough
10. Michigan State University
11. Otto
12. Eight
13. France
14. Lilt
15. The Queen Consort (Camilla)
16. Raquel Welch, who died aged 82
17. Actor Bruce Willis
18. Kansas City Chiefs
19. Elon Musk
20. United Arab Emirates
21. An asteroid
22. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck
23. Nathan Jones (Southampton)
24. South Park
25. Wet Leg and Beyonce 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 10, 2023

1. 7.8
2. Christian Atsu
3. The helmet of a Ukrainian pilot
4. Off the table

5. Greg Hands
6. The death penalty

7. The Sunday Telegraph
8. The Spring Budget
9. Seven per cent
10. Return tickets
11. An ‘extensive' cocaine habit
12. Epsom College 
13. 36
14. The search to find Nicola Bulley in the River Wyre (believing she is not there)
15. South Carolina
16. Roberto Mancini
17. M&Co
18. Treason
19. Gary Glitter (Paul Gadd)
20. She revealed she was the older woman who took Prince Harry’s virginity in a field behind a pub
21. He is not wearing a crown
22. Paco Rabanne
23. Dionne Warwick 
24. Fawlty Towers

25. Wet Leg

Newsquiz answers, Friday, February 3, 2023

1. c) Royal College of Nursing (nurses)
2. Ministerial Code
3. Dominic Raab (deputy Prime Minister)
4. Four per cent
5. The UK
6. Shell
7. Flybe
8. British Gas (Centrica)
9. Fortunate 
10. For a four-year-old girl killed by the family dog
11. River Wyre
12. Memphis, Tennessee

13. The Hillsborough disaster

14. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United footballer)
15. Hexham 
16. Shaping Us
17. Swear words (specifically the f-word)
18. Ten
19. The culture and history of the First Australians
20. Sylvia Syms
21. Her Frenchness
22. Delilah
23. Newcastle United and Manchester United 
24. An original Mr Blobby costume

25. The Eurovision stage (at the Liverpool Arena)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 27, 2023

1. Ethics adviser (Prime Minister’s Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests)
2. £800,000
3. Leopard 2
4. Brighton (and Hove)
5. Serve their sentence at a women's prison
6. Declinism
7. A Holocaust memorial (and learning centre)
8. New cars
9. Matt Hancock (former Health Secretary) 
10. Rod Stewart 
11. Monterey Park
12. Cyclist Mark Cavendish
13. Actor Julian Sands, 65, who disappeared in mountains in California
14. Edinburgh
15. Sesame Street
16. Buzz Aldrin (the second man to walk on the moon)
17. Everton
18. Dubai
19. Green
20. For pulling out of snooker tournaments to appear on The Masked Singer
21. Mensa
22. Darvel FC 
23. Justin Bieber
24. Bill Nighy

25. Bruno Tonioli 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 20, 2023

1. February 1
2. Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative Party chairman)
3. The Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (the Scottish government's plans to make it easier to change gender)
4. Travelling in a car while not wearing a seat belt
5. Blackpool and Teesside
6. David Carrick
7. In the tank
8. The Priory (Cheadle Royal in Stockport)
9. A coal mine (to stop an abandoned village being demolished for the mine’s expansion)
10. Everton
11. A funeral/memorial service
12. Nepal
13. Involuntary
14. Paperchase
15. Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale
16. Bringing cake into the office
17. Gina Lollobrigida
18. Loud moaning noises from a pornographic tape
19. The Mafia
20. Hinkley Point C nuclear power station
21. Astronaut Tim Peake
22. 4.05am (accept 4pm)
23. The Byrds (Mr Tambourine Man and All I Really Want To Do)
24. Manchester United Football Club
25. Greatest Hits Radio

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 13, 2023

1. 400,000 
2. Paul Burrell (Diana's former Butler)
3. Keep his beard
4. Dangerous
5. Talking therapies
6. 90 minutes
7. Statins
8. The Grenfell Tower fire
9. The Holocaust
10. Unsocially distanced
11. Cosmic Girl
12. Ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson who had been Photoshopped out
13. Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage
14. Uranium 
15. Paris (Gare du Nord)
16. She was shot by a six-year-old pupil
17. Evri (delivery firm)
18. Sir Francis Drake
19. A threesome
20. Brazil 
21. Hi Ho Silver Lining 
22. Blue
23. Gareth Bale
24. Black
25. A trapped seal (which has eaten £3,000 worth of fish)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, January 6, 2023

1. The Guardian
2. The dog’s bowl
3. 25
4. Stop the boats
5. Maths
6. Safety levels (also accept security levels)
7. Take back control
8. The Kraken
9. The Russian Orthodox Christmas
10. 10C
11. Jamaica
12. Resign
13. Amazon
14. Birmingham City and West Ham United
15. A collision between two helicopters
16. For failing to attend funeral ceremonies for Pelé
17. Speaker of the House of Representatives

18. Martina Navratilova 
19. Gianluca Vialli (former Chelsea player and manager) who died aged 58

20. Barbara Walters
21. Brian May (Queen)
22. A snow plough
23. Romeo and Juliet
24. Iron Maiden 

25. Flo

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 30, 2022

1. The Lighthouse 
2. Bromsgrove Sporting FC
3. Buffalo
4. It is the real name of Brazilian footballer Pele who died aged 82
5. Worked in business
6. Paul Nowak 
7. Center Parcs
8. China
9. Edwina Currie
10. King Charles in his Christmas speech
11. Belarus
12. a) go to jail for holding an 'indecent exhibition’ at her London shop named Sex (she was fined not imprisoned)
13. John Bird
14. Austria
15. A lung cancer diagnosis
16. Watching Andy Murray win Wimbledon
17. Cambodia
18. Andrew Tate 
19. Erling Haaland (Manchester City)
20. Stand on a newspaper
21. Melanie C (former Spice Girl)
22. Non-binary (or transgender)
23. An energy drink (called Prime Hydration)
24. An overhead TV camera (Spidercam)
25. Avatar: The Way Of Water

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 23, 2022

1. Inflict harm
2. Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) 
3. 5.9 per cent (accept six per cent)
4. Change gender 
5. Plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda (after the High Court ruled they were lawful)
6. Third

7. Fair Play Award (for the fewest bookings)
8. Eight
9. Salt Bae 
10. Four
11. Nicola Sturgeon and Rose West
12. The Fun Boy Three
13. For complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people during the Holocaust
14. Paris
15. Elon Musk (at Twitter)
16. The Serpent

17. George Cohen
18. Primal Scream and The Charlatans
19. Cricketer Ben Stokes
20. The Trump family
21. Play test cricket for England
22. Bob Dylan
23. A Traitor (in the BBC reality show The Traitors)
24. Hamza Yassin

25. The Princess of Wales (Kate Middleton)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 16, 2022

1. Babbs Mill Park
2. Wolves
3. Four 
4. Albania
5. Pat Cullen
6. 10.7 per cent
7. St Helier (Jersey)
8. Montpellier
9. Shetland
10. Stretford and Urmston 
11. The Lockerbie air disaster 
12. The assassination of President John F Kennedy

13. Kettering
14. Andrew 'Freddie’ Flintoff (Top Gear)
15. A giant aquarium

16. Stephen Bear
17. The Brixton O2 Academy
18. Hi-de-Hi
19. Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi 
20. 53
21. Abbey Road studios
22. The moon
23. A stray cat (called Dave)
24. A walrus

25. Henry Cavill (as Superman)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 9, 2022

1. Unconscious bias
2. Mixed race
3. Cardiff and Glasgow
4. c) ambulance workers
5. Russia’s war in Ukraine
6. Scarlet fever
7. Cumbria
8. Eight
9. Matt Hancock (former Health Secretary)  
10. Abolish the House of Lords
11. The SNP's Westminster leader (following the resignation of Ian Blackford)
12. Santander
13. The morality police (the Guidance Patrol)
14. Eddie Izzard 
15. The RAF bomber squadron known as the Dambusters
16. Luton
17. Cheers
18. St Lucia
19. Stiff person
20. Basketball player Brittney Griner 
21. He returned to the UK after his home was burgled
22. 1,000 competitive appearances
23. Wordle
24. Matt Lucas, standing down from Great British Bake Off
25. Christmas Jumper

Newsquiz answers, Friday, December 2, 2022

1. Lady Susan Hussey
2. The City of Chester
3. Sexual assault (rape, castration and sexual abuse of children)
4. Ian Blackford (as leader of the SNP group at Westminster)
5. Onshore wind farms
6. Health Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer 
7. Covid protests in Shanghai
8. HSBC
9. Motor Neurone Disease
10. Mexico (Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino)
11. Christian
12. Diphtheria
13. Ischia
14. Monkeypox (to mpox)
15. Kanye West (aka known as Ye)
16. Teddy bears (in bondage gear)
17. Earthshot 
18. She became the first woman to referee a match at the men's World Cup (Germany and Costa Rica)
19. Fame and Flashdance … What A Feeling
20. Christine Perfect
21. Bob Dylan
22. Gaslighting
23. Elton John
24. Harry Styles (As It Was)
25. Budgy Smugglers

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 25, 2022

1. c) Today I feel woman (although he said it later when prompted by a reporter’s question)
2. Sing their national anthem
3. The ban on OneLove armbands
4. Score in five World Cups
5. £50million
6. Democracy
7. That MPs could put Christmas parties on expenses (advice which it later apologised for)
8. Net migration to the UK 
9. Grinch
10. Baroness Mone
11. December 15 and 20
12. Nottingham
13. Java
14. Club Q
15. Walmart supermarket
16. Game Of Thrones
17. Elon Musk (announcing he was allowing Donald Trump back on Twitter)
18. Shamima Begum
19. Astronauts (for the European Space Agency)
20. Redcar
21. Kevin Sinfield
22. Manchester United Football Club

23. Paddington Bear toys
24. Chocolate and Chip
25. Newsreader Charlene White

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 18, 2022

1. In recession
2. £3.3billion
3. £10.42 per hour
4. Electric cars
5. Tomatoes
6. £63million (up from £55million)
7. MH17
8. A missile strike that killed two people in Poland 
9. Bali
10. Mould
11. Istanbul
12. He suffered burns to his face and hands when a car burst into flames
13. Eggs
14. Its all-white clothing rule (so that women can wear coloured undershorts)
15. The announcement of a beer ban at World Cup stadiums in Qatar (Budweiser is major FIFA sponsor)
16. Country singer Dolly Parton
17. Sam Curran 
18. Put £10,000 of his own money into a shredder
19. Rain Bow (the symbol of LGBT+ pride)
20. Rats 
21. Amazon

22. All politicians
23. Tony Adams (who withdrew from Strictly Come Dancing)
24. DJ Scott Mills

25. Great British Bake Off

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 11, 2022

1. Jump out of the window
2. Defence Secretary and Education Secretary
3. Spider
4. Boy George
5. Ed Sheeran (Perfect)
6. 17.6 per cent (accept 17 per cent)
7. Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng 
8. The coronation of King Charles
9. Highway to climate hell 
10. Environmental protests
11. Kherson
12. Aaron Carter
13. For throwing eggs at the King and Queen Consort
14. Barcelona
15. Lake Victoria 
16. The Women’s Rugby World Cup final (England v New Zealand)
17. The Sorting Hat
18. Bill Treacher
19. Homosexuality
20. Rape (and faking his own death)

21. b) Liverpool (two)
22. Pakistan
23. David Walliams (while judging on Britain’s Got Talent)
24. Animals that died in service

25. Peter Kay

Newsquiz answers, Friday, November 4, 2022

1. Three per cent
2. An ‘invasion' (of illegal migrants)
3. Manston (in Kent)
4. Helicopter (Chinook)
5. He firebombed a Dover immigration centre and was found dead at a nearby petrol station
6. Pina Coladas
7. (Celebrity) SAS: Who Dares Wins
8. Egypt
9. Mayonnaise
10. Two (John Atkinson, 28, and Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight)
11. Twitter
12. Seoul, South Korea
13. British Petroleum (BP)
14. Great Balls Of Fire
15. Imran Khan (Pakistan's former Prime Minister and ex-cricketer)
16. St Agnes
17. Newcastle United
18. Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House of Representatives)
19. Migos
20. The fax machine
21. Permacrisis
22. Ricky Gervais
23. Bounty
24. Nelson Mandela
25. Taylor Swift

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 28, 2022

1. Brighter

2. 42

3. Mistakes
4. Richmond, North Yorkshire
5. a) Simon Hart (chief whip)
6. Gillian Keegan
7. Thursday November 17
8. Fracking
9. Suella Braverman as Home Secretary
10. The World Cup in Qatar
11. A dirty bomb
12. The UK rejoins the EU

13. Elon Musk (on taking over Twitter)

14. The waxwork of King Charles (at Madame Tussauds in London)
15. Albania

16. Online pornography
17. Ford Fiesta
18. Made.com
19. Outside 10 Downing Street (they are descriptions of the different lecterns used by Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak)
20. Kanye West (Ye)
21. Milan

22. 50p
23. Spare

24. The Repair Shop 

25. Boy George

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 21, 2022

1. Mandate

2. 44 days (accept 45)

3. Friday October 28

4. A lettuce (which outlasted the Prime Minister in a Daily Star competition)

5. Ben Wallace (Defence Secretary)

6. Under a desk

7. c) scrapping of the National Insurance rise

8. Krishnan Guru-Murthy (Channel 4)

9. Tofu
10. Grant Shapps

11. Actress Miriam Margolyes

12. Cracker

13. Climbing the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge (Dartford)

14. American Anne Sacoolas pleading guilty to causing the death of her son Harry Dunn by careless driving

15. Racehorses

16. Wasps 
17. China

18. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United footballer)

19. Cancel-culture (accept cancel or cancellation)

20. James Corden

21. Fulham

22. The Crown (Netflix TV series)
23. Bulgaria

24. Strictly Come Dancing's 'super leaker’ (publishing the axed pairings on his website Strictly Spoiler)

25. Little Simz (Sometimes I Might Be Introvert)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 14, 2022

1. Jeremy Hunt

2. 38 days

3. General Election
4. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)
5. King Charles
6. 3.5 per cent
7. Conor Burns
8. Detest
9. The Kerch Strait 
10. Creeslough
11. Milton Keynes
12. Seven
13. The Sandy Hook school shootings
14. Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh
15. Marks & Spencer
16. Jessica Fletcher
17. Royal Mail
18. Katie Piper
19. Lie about their age (to access adult content)
20. Saturday May 6
21. Craig David
22. The Prince and Princess of Wales
23. Martin Lewis (The Martin Lewis Money Show)
24. Liverpool
25. I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here

Newsquiz answers, Friday, October 7, 2022

1. 45p (45 per cent)
2. Growth
3. Moving On Up
4. Who voted for this?
5. A comprehensive school
6. A dump
7. Prague
8. COP27 (the climate change conference in Egypt)
9. The Mirror
10. Armageddon
11. A police officer (a former lieutenant colonel) 
12. He appeared at Liverpool magistrates charged with the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel
13. Java
14. Dunfermline
15. She was attacked by American bulldogs
16. Complete his acquisition of Twitter
17. Possessing cannabis
18. Coal Miner’s Daughter
19. Emma
20. Jeremy Clarkson (at his Diddly Squat farm)
21. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
22. Win the London Marathon
23. Erling Haaland (for Manchester City)
24. Manchester (she is married to Man City captain İlkay Gündoğan)
25. Channel 4's Countdown

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 30, 2022

1. £65billion
2. The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
3. 33
4. Rishi Sunak 
5. Superficially
6. That the National Anthem was sung (for the first time)
7. Gary Neville (ex England and Manchester United footballer)
8. Keith Bennett
9. Nord Stream (1 and 2)
10. Donetsk
11. Hurricane Ian
12. 3.10pm (15:10)
13. Communication Workers Union (Royal Mail)
14. Coolio
15. Jackie (Walorski)
16. Italy
17. DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
18. 32
19. Beyoncé
20. She is the Queen of Denmark and stripped them of their prince and princess titles
21. Copyright - they were too similar to those made by Lindt
22. The men’s marathon (two hours, one minute and nine seconds)
23. Little Mix singer Perrie Edwards and Liverpool footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 

24. Nigel

25. Glasgow and Liverpool

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 23, 2022

1. St George's Chapel

2. The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 
3. Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
4. Liz Truss 

5. Stagnation 
6. £150,000
7. 2.25 per cent
8. Two weeks
9. Bluff

10. Sabre-rattling
11. Saudi Arabia 
12. Leicester
13. Information leading to the conviction of Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s killer
14. Hijabs (headscarves)
15. Huddersfield
16. Bring Up the Bodies
17. Overweight or obese
18. The pallbearers who carried the Queen’s coffin
19. Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield from This Morning (for allegedly queue jumping while visiting the Queen’s coffin)
20. Pakistan
21. File past the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Hall
22. OneLove
23. Maroon 5
24. Sally Lindsey

25. South Africa

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 16, 2022

1. Carolean (from Carolus – the Latin for Charles)
2. St Giles’ Cathedral
3. c) North Korea (at ambassador level)
4. Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)
5. A leaking fountain pen
6. Clarence House
7. Its checkout beeps
8. Not my King
9. Center Parcs 
10. 8pm
11. A sick old man (accept sick)
12. Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Scottish Secretary Alister Jack 
13. Celtic
14. Goodbye and goodnight
15. Izyum 
16. Chris Kaba
17. Assisted suicide (in Switzerland)
18. Twice
19. Jeremy Vine 
20. To play God Save The King
21. Cardi B (Belcalis Almanzar)
22. Aldi
23. Succession (saying it was a good week for successions but he got more votes than the King)
24. Eight
25. The Oxford comma

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 9, 2022

1. 70
2. 15
3. King Charles III
4. Princess Charlotte
5. God Save The King
6. London Bridge
7. Truss 81,000 (81,326) Sunak 60,000 (60,399)
8. Deliver
9. Mary
10. James Cleverly and Suella Braverman
11. Chancellor of the Exchequer
12. Imbecile
13. The BBC licence fee

14. £2,500
15. The coconut Cabinet
16. Joe Lycett
17. c) admired from Kyiv to Carlisle (that was how Liz Truss described him)

18. Saskatchewan
19. North Korea

20. He smelled different
21. Dinamo Zagreb
22. Dusseldorf 
23. The Duchess of Cambridge/Kate Middleton (in The Crown)
24. Harry Styles

25. Peppa Pig

Newsquiz answers, Friday, September 2, 2022

1. Balmoral
2. Michael Gove
3. Chinwag
4. Nick Robinson 
5. September 15 and 17
6. Glasnost and perestroika
7. Pizza Hut
8. Sizewell C
9. A pint of beer

10. The Speaker’s Chair
11. Notting Hill Carnival 
12. Pakistan
13. £326
14. Myanmar
15. Argentina (Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner)
16. The John Lewis Partnership (including Waitrose)
17. Gary Neville (Giggs’s former teammate at Manchester United)
18. Bees
19. Sarah Beeny
20. Applaud murdered nine-year Olivia Pratt-Korbel
21. OnlyFans
22. The Monkees (Mickey Dolenz)
23. Bournemouth and Dundee United
24. Go make-up free
25. A pumpkin

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 26, 2022

1. Olivia Pratt-Korbel
2. £3,549 (accept £3,500)
3. Scientists
4. The jury is out 
5. c) Yorkshire/Humber and North East
6. British Gas (Centrica)
7. £15
8. Enough is Enough
9. A-levels and GCSEs
10. Albanian
11. Blood
12. By a car-bomb
13. The Red Arrows (Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team)
14. The evacuation of the Channel Tunnel after a train broke down

15. Mountain biking
16. Eddie Izzard
17. A fire in his bedroom. 
18. Student loans
19. Jill Scott
20. A python
21. Liverpool
22. Fly solo around the world
23. Pass a GCSE (gaining the highest grade in maths)
24. Gladiators
25. Britney Spears

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 19, 2022

1. Graft

2. Breakfast wrap

3. 43,000
4. English literature
5. 10.1 per cent
6. 20mph 
7. He was stabbed to death on his mobility scooter in West London
8. Satanic Verses
9. It is the home of Europe’s largest nuclear plant 
10. Margaret Ferrier
11. Wyoming

12. Ted Baker
13. Having a Twitter account (and following and retweeting dissidents and activists)
14. Kabul (Afghanistan)
15. Eight
16. Manchester
17. Loading the dishwasher
18. Manchester United
19. For speeding down the Grand Canal on electric hydrofoils
20. Finland (Sanna Marin)

21. Pop Idol
22. Marlon Brando (for The Godfather)
23. Thomas Tuchel (Chelsea) and Antonio Conte (Tottenham) 
24. Jerry Sadowitz 
25. Host of University Challenge (taking over from Jeremy Paxman)

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 12, 2022

1. Chris Skidmore
2. A false promise
3. Profits (by energy firms)
4. How to get into Vogue magazine
5. £4,266 (accept £4,200)
6. d) Clean a car
7. Disposable barbecues
8. Mar-a-Lago
9. You’re The One That I Want and Summer Nights (both from Grease)
10. The family of Archie Battersbee after his life support was switched off
11. Liquid Leisure
12. Crimea
13. Kate Greville
14. The Isle of Skye
15. Charles de Gaulle, Paris
16. Anne Heche
17. Polio

18. Italy
19. The Seekers
20. Raymond Briggs
21. Talc-based baby powder
22. River Seine

23. The Pogues
24. Evolution
25. Paranoid

Newsquiz answers, Friday, August 5, 2022

1. Six
2. Milton Keynes
3. For taking her shirt off to celebrate scoring the winning goal
4. £10
5. 16 per cent 

6. A hospice
7. BP
8. 1.75 per cent
9. British Airways
10. Boston
11. Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan
12. The Bin Laden family
13. Waitrose
14. The Sandy Hook school shootings
15. Spain
16. Kabul (Afghanistan)
17. His bike was catapulted over the railings and into the crowd during the Commonwealth Games
18. Grain/corn

19. Brazil
20. They were attending Boris and Carrie Johnson’s wedding party
21. Laura Kenny
22. Star Trek (Lt Nyota Uhura)
23. A swimmer was attacked by a shark
24. Mock the Week (hosted by Dara Ó Briain)

25. This year's Strictly Come Dancing 

Newsquiz answers, Friday, July 29, 2022

1. Kate McCann
2. Energy bills
3. Stoke
4. Earrings
5. 14 years
6. Brexit
7. Sam Tarry
8. Bramall Lane (Sheffield)
9. Alessia Russo
10. In the (North) sea

11. The Gala theory
12. The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)
13. €100 (£85)
14. Edinburgh
15. It was the first to be televised live
16. Her dance to Sweet Caroline after the Lionesses’s semi-final victory went viral
17. Comedy actor Bernard Cribbins, who died aged 93
18. The Dolomites (Italy)
19. 1911 
20. Cricket Scotland 
21. Jan Leeming
22. Perry (a bull)
23. Duran Duran 

24. Host Eurovision 2023
25. The Beano

Newsquiz answers, Friday July 22, 2022

1. Coningsby
2. Wennington
3. Hasta la vista, baby
4. 111 
5. Kemi Badenoch
6. 137 (Sunak) and 113 (Truss)
7. Sky News 
8. Tobias Ellwood

9. 9.4 per cent
10. Typhoon
11. Tiggy Legge-Bourke (accept Alexandra Pettifer)
12. Nelson Mandela
13. Commentating on the race
14. £195million
15. Marbella
16. Haemophilia
17. Heading the ball by under 12s
18. Quidditch (to distance itself from author JK Rowling on trans issues)
19. Spain
20. Bison 
21. Ben Stokes 
22. Affleck (following her marriage to actor Ben Affleck)
23. Halifax Town
24. Broadcaster David ‘Kid’ Jenson
25. Captain of Europe's Ryder Cup golf team

Newsquiz answers, Friday July 15, 2022

1. September 5 
2. Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi and former health secretary Jeremy Hunt
3. 101
4. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss
5. Head held high
6. Seven
7. The Alba Party
8. It has been wrapped in foil
9. Sir Mo Farrah, four-time Olympic champion, revealed it was his real name
10. Aslef (Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen)

11. August 18 and 20
12. Airmageddon 
13. Beth Mead
14. Sri Lanka
15. Zoe Ball
16. Telford
17. Washington (DC United)
18. Head Of A Peasant Woman
19. Uber
20. Seven
21. 73
22. James Webb (a former Nasa chief)
23. Grey squirrels
24. Country Life magazine
25. Colin Murray  

Newsquiz answers, Friday July 8, 2022

1. Herd
2. Ben Wallace (defence secretary)
3. Levelling Up Secretary 
4. The reset button
5. Education secretary (replacing Nadhim Zahawi, resigning and being replaced by James Cleverly)
6. Nodding dogs
7. Brandon Lewis
8. Durham Constabulary
9. 10,300
10. Shinzo Abe
11. Highland Park
12. Copenhagen
13. A bomb hoax (he allegedly posted on Snapchat: 'I'm going to blow this plane up, I'm a Taliban’ 
14. The Red Sea (Egypt)
15. It is the glacier in Italy where nine people were killed during an avalanche
16. Turkey
17. Halo
18. Steve Wright
19. Austria
20. Take their driving tests for them
21. James Caan
22. Cameron Norrie
23. Minions: The Rise of Gru
24. Blowin' In The Wind

25. Alabama

Newsquiz answers, Friday July 1, 2022

1. Michael Howard

2. The Carlton Club

3. Madrid

4. Pecs

5. Kremenchuk

6. Qatar

7. October (19)

8. A wink

9. Mississippi

10. Paris

11. Zara Aleena

12. 50 (Kelly 30, Maxwell 20)

13. You, Me And The Big C

14. Pronouns

15. Birmingham

16. Archie Battersbee

17. Texas

18. The Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police

19. Russian president Vladimir Putin

20. Nelson Piquet (three-time Formula One world champion)

21. Heinz (Kraft Heinz)

22. Chris Martin (from Coldplay)

23. Second 

24. Katie Boulter 

25. Dave Grohl (of the Foo Fighters) and Bruce Springsteen

Newsquiz answers, Friday June 24, 2022

1. Chair/Chairman
2. Richard Foord
3. Went for a swim in the hotel pool
4. London Victoria
5. The Hood (a villain in Thunderbirds)
6. British Airways  
7. Lithuania
8. Afghanistan
9. Polio
10. Sinuses
11. Stephen Port 
12. Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen
13. Budapest
14. Dame Kelly Holmes, who announced she was gay
15. Cheese (Dairy Crest, which produces Cathedral City, Clover and Country Life)
16. Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies (after international governing body FINA banned transgender athletes from women's races)
17. Sheffield
18. Stand unsupported on one leg
19. Ryan Giggs (as manager of the Wales football team)
20. A donkey
21. Stingray
22. Sports presenter Gary Lineker
23. Running Up That Hill
24. Exeter

25. Billie Eilish, 20, and Paul McCartney, 80

Newsquiz answers, Friday June 17 2022

1. Seven
2. Appalling
3. Wiltshire
4. The European convention on human rights
5. 11 per cent and 1.25 per cent
6. The Northern Ireland Protocol 
7. Odious
8. France, Germany and Italy 
9. Criminal act
10. His daughter Ivanka
11. At the Isle of Man TT races
12. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair
13. 850
14. Journalists banned from entering Russia
15. Monkeypox 
16. Julian Assange
17. Revlon
18. Phil Bennett
19. Whitby
20. Order of the Garter
21. Dragons’ Den
22. Rebel Wilson
23. Hungary
24. The Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger)

25. An elephant

Newsquiz answers, Friday June 10 2022

1. 211 for and 148 against
2. Two flat tyres
3. Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance
4. Convincing and decisive
5. A marmalade sandwich
6. Ben Whishaw
7. Mummy
8. June 21, 23 and 25
9. The right-to-buy scheme (to help lower-paid workers use housing benefit cash to buy homes)
10. The death sentence imposed on ‘mercenaries’ Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner by the so-called Donetsk People's Republic
11. The cost of filling an average family car with petrol reaching £100

12. The Lady of Heaven
13. The Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament
14. For attempting to remove artefacts (12 stones and shards of broken pottery)
15. National Action
16. She was left on plane for more than an hour and a half after staff did not come to help her (she is paralysed from the neck down)
17. Cigarettes/tobacco
18. Ukraine
19. Berlin

20. Brazil 
21. He was selling copies of the Big Issue 
22. He scored his 50th goal
23. Sue Barker

24. Britney Spears - he is her first husband
25. Britain's Got Talent 2022

Newsquiz answers, Friday June 3 2022

1. 3,500
2. Goodwill
3. Discomfort
4. Author Sir Salman Rushdie and illustrator Sir Quentin Blake
5. He had tested positive for coronavirus
6. Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury
7. Animal Rebellion

8. Questionnaires
9. Jeremy Wright

10. Fake tickets 
11. $10million
12. 243
13. TUI
14. Travel with cabin baggage only
15. Imperial measurements
16. 180 
17. Missguided
18. Nine
19. Cake
20. Condoms
21. Nottingham Forest
22. Bradford
23. Jeff Beck
24. Carlo Ancelotti

25. Love Island

Newsquiz answers, Friday May 27 2022

1. Security and cleaning
2. c) 4.20am
3. Abba
4. Called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign
5. £400
6. Robb Elementary
7. His grandmother
8. 21
9. Genocide
10. The RMT (Rail Maritime Transport)
11. 18 months
12. Australia
13. Volkswagen
14. A rose which has been named after her
15. Goodfellas
16. Supermodel Kate Moss
17. Sign a confession under duress 

18. Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey
19. He disappeared through a drain cover as it flipped over and closed on top of him 
20. Wimbledon/All England Lawn Tennis Club 
21. Manchester United are rubbish
22. One (93 and 92)
23. Depeche Mode 

24. The Queen (Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen follows her life as a princess)

25. Luton

Newsquiz answers, Friday May 20 2022

1. 126
2. 9 per cent
3. Apocalyptic
4. The Mariupol steelworks
5. Turkey (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan)
6. McDonald’s
7. He was arrested on suspicion of rape and sexual assault
8. 700
9. Buffalo
10. Paddington
11. Port Stanley (Falkland Islands) and Douglas (Isle of Man)
12. They will be the first women to referee games in the World Cup
13. UFO sightings
14. Kay Mellor
15. Billionaires
16. An MI5 spy
17. Blackpool
18. Dubai
19. An app (Sleepio)
20. Chariots Of Fire
21. Three
22. Space Man
23. £184million (£184,262,899)
24. Vogue (the pub is the Star Inn at Vogue)
25. Top Gun: Maverick