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Thursday comes around and presents one more opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge in our regular quiz. Did you pay attention to the news – particularly the quirkier bits? Discover here, while also enduring a series of tedious in-jokes, and then share your score in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

Our Questions

1. Canterbury church is getting its first female archbishop. Which person?

   • Ms. Connelly
   • Ms. Mullally
   • Fiona Bellamy
   • Ms. Holloway

2. Pope Leo has revealed his first international visit. To which location is the pontiff heading?

   • Egypt and Libya
   • The European country and the island
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • Syldavia and Borduria

3. Amazon Prime has changed promotional pictures on its streaming video service after people complained it was performing what …

   • Depicting Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Depicting James Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first midweek quiz after the hiatus asked who France's new prime minister was, and just a month later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. What France's PM has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron yet another problem?

   • Mr. Lecornu
   • Mr. Darmanin
   • Mr. Bayrou
   • Léon Colbert

5. The world mourned Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'bonkbuster' love novels. What of these two well-known ones came first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

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

   • Author Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's Carrie
   • Singer Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political conference, the Tories managed to give out a free present where the word 'Britain' was spelled wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny jar of sweet substance
   • A branded container of water
   • A very mischievous miniature dachshund

8. This is Willow, the official dog of the midweek challenge. The dog would like to know which well-known kids' character is taking legal action against the producers of the satirical show over their recent seeming depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. The current guest canine is Frank, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. He wants to find out what charitable effort Drew Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy animation internet phenomenon, has used his online fame to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • The disease
   • Multiple sclerosis

10. 17 of The artist Hockney's iPad artworks are to be sold at auction. The artworks are of where?

    • Padstow
    • The Yorkshire location
    • Gosport
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will provide a limited reimbursement to Australia's national government over a $440,000 report that contained several mistakes, after confessing it used AI artificial intelligence to assist create it?

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

12. Next up our recently introduced standard segment, comparative with the entertainer's ghost. Currently the Thursday challenge imagines the ghost of the pianist would like to know which of these people has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' awards?

    • The defender Ramos
    • The forward Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. A boffin (the proper technical word) only found out he'd won the prestigious award in medical science when his spouse switched her mobile on after they had been on a digital detox in the American West wilderness. What is his name?

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

14. Thursday quiz favorite Taylor Swift has a latest record out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Story of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Unusual Animals of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a new regular round! Today in history with Brian May! Plus his badger! Currently the midweek quiz imagines the legendary Queen guitarist would like to know about the Prague astronomical timepiece. October 9 is generally considered as the date of the first reference to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • 1210
    • The 15th century
    • The 17th century
    • The 19th century

If you really believe there has been an glaring mistake in a single of the questions or responses – and can show your reasoning and are absolutely 100% positive you are not trying to verify a joke – you can complain about it in the feedback section below.