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Thursday arrives and brings one more opportunity for you to test your awareness in our regular quiz. Did you pay attention to the current events – particularly the more unusual bits? Discover here, while also enduring a set of boring in-jokes, and then post your result in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

Our Queries

1. The historic church is welcoming its first female religious leader. Which person?

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

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

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

3. The streaming Prime has altered marketing images on its online content platform after people objected it was performing what …

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

4. Hilariously, the first midweek quiz after the break inquired who France's new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. Which French PM has just quit, giving President Macron one more problem?

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

5. We lost Author Cooper, renowned for her 'romantic' love novels. What of these pair very famous ones was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Speaking of books, The organization America’s Banned in the USA study found what was the most restricted book in the current school year in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Author Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's The horror story
   • Gary Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political gathering, the Tories managed to distribute a complimentary present where the term 'The country' was spelt wrong. Which item was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny container of sweet substance
   • A branded bottle of H2O
   • A extremely mischievous miniature dachshund

8. This is Willow, the designated pet of the Thursday challenge. She would like to find out which famous kids' figure is suing the makers of Spitting Image over their recent apparent depiction of it …

   • Bagpuss
   • The stringed puppet
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. The current guest canine is The pup, who the Thursday challenge met down the bar. What a well-behaved dog. He would like to know what charitable effort The individual Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral fame to collect money for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • Multiple sclerosis

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

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • Ledbury

11. Who will provide a partial refund to Australia's national administration over a $440,000 document that included multiple errors, after confessing it used generative technology to assist create it?

    • The consulting firm
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently introduced standard segment, comparative with the entertainer's ghost. This week the midweek quiz envisions the ghost of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' awards?

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

13. A boffin (the correct scientific word) only found out he'd won the Nobel prize in medicine when his spouse turned her mobile on after they had been on a technology detox in the American West wilderness. What is his identity?

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

14. Thursday quiz favorite The singer Swift has a new album out. Which title is it called?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Story of a Showgirl
    • The Syllabus of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Animals of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a new regular round! On this day with The guitarist May! Plus his badger! This week the midweek quiz imagines the legendary Band musician wants to know about the Czech celestial clock. 9 October is generally considered as the date of the first reference to the presence of the timepiece. But in which date?

    • 1210
    • The 15th century
    • 1610
    • 1810

Should you really do think there has been an glaring mistake in one of the questions or responses – and can show your reasoning and are absolutely 100% certain you are not trying to verify a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.