Thursday News Challenge Number 218: Test Your Knowledge of Latest Events

Thursday comes around and presents another chance for you to challenge your awareness in our regular challenge. Did you pay heed to the news – especially the quirkier bits? Find out here, while also enduring a series of tedious in-jokes, and then post your score in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

The Questions

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

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

2. The pontiff Leo has revealed his first international tour. To which location is the pontiff traveling?

   • Egypt and its neighbor
   • Greece and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • Syldavia and its rival

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

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

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday quiz after the hiatus inquired who the French new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been removed through the door marked 'do one'. Which French Prime Minister has just resigned, giving Emmanuel Macron one more problem?

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

5. We lost Jilly Cooper, renowned for her 'romantic' love novels. Which of these pair well-known titles was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

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

   • Judy Blume’s The novel
   • Author Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's Carrie
   • Singer Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Tory political gathering, the Conservatives succeeded to distribute a free present where the word 'Britain' was spelt wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small container of sweet substance
   • A branded container of water
   • A extremely mischievous small dog breed

8. This is Willow, the designated pet of the midweek challenge. The dog wants to know which well-known kids' character is suing the producers of the satirical show over their recent seeming portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • Paddington

9. The current visiting dog is Frank, who the midweek quiz met down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. The dog wants to find out what charitable effort The individual Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral fame to raise funds for

   • The health condition
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • The neurological disorder

10. Seventeen of David Hockney's digital drawings are to be sold at auction. The drawings are of where?

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

11. Which entity will offer a limited reimbursement to the Australian national administration over a $440,000 report that included several mistakes, after confessing it employed AI artificial intelligence to help produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • The audit firm
    • The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently added standard segment, least or most with the entertainer's spirit. Currently the Thursday quiz imagines the spirit of Liberace would like to find out which of these individuals has the MOST European Champions League victory medals?

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

13. A boffin (the proper scientific word) only discovered he'd won the prestigious award in medicine when his wife turned her phone on after they had been on a digital detox in the American West backcountry. Which is his name?

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

14. Midweek quiz favourite Taylor Swift has a new record out. Which title is it called?

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

15. Lastly … a recent standard segment! On this day with Brian May! And his badger! This week the Thursday quiz envisions the legendary Band guitarist would like to know about the Prague astronomical timepiece. 9 October is generally considered as the date of the first reference to the presence of the clock. However in which date?

    • 1210
    • The 15th century
    • 1610
    • 1810

If you really believe there has been an glaring mistake in one of the queries or responses – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you are not attempting to factcheck a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.