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Thursday arrives and presents another opportunity for you to test your knowledge in our regular challenge. Did you pay attention to the news – particularly the quirkier parts? Find out here, while also experiencing a set of boring in-jokes, and then share your score in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!

The Queries

1. Canterbury church is welcoming its first woman religious leader. Which person?

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

2. Pope Leo has revealed his first international tour. Where is the pontiff traveling?

   • The African nation and its neighbor
   • The European country and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and the Middle Eastern country
   • Syldavia and Borduria

3. Amazon Prime has altered marketing images on its streaming video platform after people complained it was performing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his pipe
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Showing The spy Bond without his gun
   • Showing The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first midweek quiz after the hiatus inquired who the French new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. What French Prime Minister has just resigned, giving President Macron yet another problem?

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

5. We lost Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' love novels. Which of these pair well-known titles came first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

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

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's The horror story
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. At the Conservative political conference, the Tories managed to give out a complimentary gift where the term 'The country' was spelled wrong. What was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny jar of sweet substance
   • A branded container of H2O
   • A extremely mischievous small dachshund

8. The is Willow, the official dog of the Thursday quiz. She wants to know which well-known kids' figure is suing the producers of the satirical show over their latest apparent depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's visiting dog is Frank, who the midweek quiz encountered down the pub. What a well-behaved dog. The dog wants to know what good cause Drew Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy animation meme, has used his online popularity to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • Cancer
   • The neurological disorder

10. 17 of David Hockney's iPad artworks are to be auctioned at sale. The artworks are of which location?

    • The Cornish town
    • The Yorkshire location
    • The Hampshire town
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will provide a limited reimbursement to Australia's federal government over a $440,000 report that included multiple errors, after admitting it used generative technology to assist create it?

    • The consulting firm
    • The professional services company
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our lately introduced regular segment, comparative with Liberace's spirit. Currently the midweek quiz envisions the ghost of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the MOST European Champions League victory medals?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • The forward Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • The singer Bush

13. A boffin (the correct technical term) only discovered he'd won the prestigious award in medicine when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology break in the western US backcountry. Which is his identity?

    • Mr. Branscombe
    • Mr. Denshaw
    • Mr. Ramsdell
    • Mr. Dugnutt

14. Thursday quiz favourite The singer Swift has a latest album out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Exotic Animals of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a new standard segment! On this day with The guitarist May! Plus his animal! Currently the Thursday quiz imagines the legendary Queen musician would like to know about the Czech celestial clock. October 9 is generally regarded as the date of the first mention to the presence of the timepiece. But in which date?

    • 1210
    • 1410
    • The 17th century
    • 1810

If you truly do think there has been an egregious mistake in a single of the queries or responses – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you are not trying to factcheck a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.