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Thursday comes around and brings one more opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly quiz. Have you been paying attention to the current events – particularly the quirkier parts? Discover here, while also experiencing a set of boring in-jokes, and then share your score in the comments to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

The Questions

1. Canterbury church is getting its first female archbishop. Who?

   • Ella Connelly
   • Sarah Mullally
   • Ms. Bellamy
   • Grace Holloway

2. The pontiff Leo has announced his first international visit. To which location is the religious leader traveling?

   • The African nation and Libya
   • Greece and the island
   • Turkey and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. The streaming Prime has altered marketing pictures on its streaming video service after people complained it was performing what …

   • Depicting Sherlock Holmes without his pipe
   • Depicting The adventurer Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing James Bond without his firearm
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday quiz after the break asked who the French new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. Which France's Prime Minister has just quit, giving President Macron yet another headache?

   • Sébastien Lecornu
   • Gérald Darmanin
   • Mr. Bayrou
   • Mr. Colbert

5. We lost Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' romance novels. What of these two very famous ones was published first?

   • Rivals
   • The equestrian story

6. Talking of books, PEN America’s Banned in the USA study found what was the most banned book in the 2024-25 academic year in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s The novel
   • Author Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's Carrie
   • Gary Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political conference, the Conservatives succeeded to distribute a free present where the word 'The country' was spelled wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small jar of honey
   • A labeled container of H2O
   • A extremely mischievous small dachshund

8. The is Willow, the designated dog of the Thursday challenge. The dog wants to find out which famous children's character is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their latest apparent depiction of it …

   • Bagpuss
   • The stringed puppet
   • Basil Brush
   • Paddington

9. The current guest canine is Frank, who the midweek quiz encountered down the bar. What a good boy. He wants to find out what good cause The individual Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy animation internet phenomenon, has used his viral popularity to collect money for

   • The health condition
   • Heart disease
   • Cancer
   • Multiple sclerosis

10. Seventeen of The artist Hockney's iPad artworks are to be sold at sale. The drawings are of where?

    • The Cornish town
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • Ledbury

11. Which entity will offer a partial refund to Australia's federal government over a expensive report that included multiple mistakes, after admitting it used AI technology to help create it?

    • The consulting firm
    • The professional services company
    • The audit firm
    • The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently introduced standard segment, least or most with Liberace's ghost. This week the midweek quiz imagines the spirit of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the greatest number of Uefa Champions League victory awards?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. An academic (the correct scientific term) only found out he'd received the Nobel award in medical science when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a digital break in the American West backcountry. What is his name?

    • Jed Branscombe
    • Mr. Denshaw
    • Mr. Ramsdell
    • Bobson Dugnutt

14. Thursday quiz favourite The singer Swift has a latest album out. What is it called?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Exotic Creatures of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a recent standard round! On this day with Brian May! Plus his animal! This week the midweek quiz envisions the legendary Band musician would like to know about the Czech astronomical timepiece. October 9 is generally regarded as the day of the first reference to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • The 13th century
    • The 15th century
    • The 17th century
    • The 19th century

If you truly believe there has been an glaring mistake in one of the queries or answers – and can demonstrate your working and are completely 100% certain you aren’t attempting to verify a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.