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Thursday arrives and brings another opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly quiz. Did you pay heed to the news – particularly the more unusual parts? Discover here, while also experiencing a series of boring in-jokes, and then post your result in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

Our Queries

1. The historic cathedral is getting its first female religious leader. Which person?

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

2. Pope Leo has announced his first overseas tour. Where is the pontiff heading?

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

3. The streaming Prime has altered promotional pictures on its online content service after people objected it was performing what …

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his pipe
   • Depicting The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Depicting The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Showing The musician from Sparks without his moustache

4. Hilariously, the first midweek challenge after the break inquired who the French new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door labeled 'do one'. Which French Prime Minister has just resigned, giving President Macron yet another headache?

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

5. We lost Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. What of these pair well-known titles was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Talking of literature, PEN America’s Prohibited in the USA report found what was the most banned publication in the current academic year in the US?

   • Author Blume’s The novel
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's Carrie
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. During the Tory party conference, the Tories managed to give out a complimentary gift where the term 'The country' was spelt wrong. What was the present?

   • A sweet bar
   • A tiny container of honey
   • A branded container of H2O
   • A very naughty small dog breed

8. This is The canine, the official pet of the midweek challenge. The dog wants to find out which famous children's character is taking legal action against the makers of Spitting Image over their recent apparent depiction of it …

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

9. The current visiting canine is The pup, who the midweek challenge encountered down the pub. What a well-behaved dog. He wants to find out what good cause The individual Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy gif internet phenomenon, has utilized his online popularity to collect money for

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

10. 17 of The artist Hockney's digital artworks are to be auctioned at auction. The drawings are of which location?

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

11. Who will offer a partial reimbursement to the Australian federal administration over a expensive document that contained several mistakes, after confessing it employed generative technology to help create it?

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

12. Next up our lately added standard round, least or most with the entertainer's ghost. This week the midweek challenge envisions the spirit of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the greatest number of Uefa Champions League winners' awards?

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

13. A boffin (the proper scientific term) only found out he'd received the prestigious award in medicine when his spouse turned her mobile on after they had been on a technology break in the American West wilderness. What is his identity?

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

14. Midweek challenge favourite The singer Swift has a new album out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Animals of the Ocean

15. And finally … a recent standard segment! On this day with The guitarist May! And his animal! This week the midweek challenge imagines the iconic Band guitarist wants to know about the Czech astronomical timepiece. 9 October is generally considered as the date of the first mention to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

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

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