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Thursday arrives and brings one more chance for you to test your awareness in our regular quiz. Have you been paying heed to the news – particularly the more unusual bits? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of boring in-jokes, and then share your result in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Let's go!

Our Queries

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

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

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

   • Egypt and Libya
   • Greece and the island
   • Turkey and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and Borduria

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

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his pipe
   • Showing Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Showing The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first midweek challenge after the hiatus inquired who the French new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. What French Prime Minister has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron yet another headache?

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

5. We lost Jilly Cooper, renowned for her 'romantic' romance novels. What of these pair well-known ones came first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

6. Speaking of literature, PEN America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most restricted book in the current school year in the US?

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

7. During the Tory party conference, the Tories succeeded to give out a complimentary gift where the word 'Britain' was spelled wrong. Which item was the present?

   • A sweet bar
   • A tiny jar of honey
   • A labeled container of water
   • A very naughty miniature dog breed

8. The is Willow, the official dog of the midweek quiz. The dog would like to know which well-known kids' character is suing the makers of Spitting Image over their latest apparent portrayal of it …

   • Bagpuss
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's visiting canine is The pup, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the pub. Such a good boy. He wants to know what good cause Drew Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral popularity to raise funds for

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

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

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

11. Which entity will provide a limited reimbursement to the Australian national administration over a expensive report that included multiple mistakes, after confessing it employed generative artificial intelligence to assist create it?

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

12. Next up our lately introduced regular segment, comparative with the entertainer's ghost. This week the Thursday challenge envisions the ghost of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the MOST Uefa Champions League victory awards?

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

13. An academic (the proper scientific term) only found out he'd won the Nobel prize in medicine when his spouse turned her phone on after they had been on a technology detox in the western US wilderness. What is his name?

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

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

    • Admissions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Life of a Performer
    • The Syllabus of Heartbreak
    • Exotic Creatures of the Deep

15. Lastly … a new regular round! Today in history with Brian May! And his animal! This week the midweek quiz envisions the iconic Queen guitarist would like to learn about the Prague celestial clock. October 9 is usually considered as the date of the first mention to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • 1210
    • The 15th century
    • 1610
    • The 19th century

Should you truly believe there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or responses – and can show your reasoning and are completely 100% certain you aren’t attempting to verify a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below.