Thursday News Quiz No 218: Test Your Awareness of Latest Events

Midweek comes around and brings another chance for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly quiz. Did you pay heed to the news – especially the quirkier parts? Find out here, while also enduring a set of boring in-jokes, and then share your result in the comments to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!

The Questions

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

   • Ella Connelly
   • Ms. Mullally
   • Ms. Bellamy
   • Grace 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 Cyprus
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • Syldavia and its rival

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

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his pipe
   • Depicting The adventurer Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing James Bond without his gun
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his moustache

4. Hilariously, the first midweek quiz after the break inquired who the French new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. Which French PM has just quit, giving President Macron one more problem?

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

5. We lost Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. Which of these pair very famous titles was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Talking of books, The organization America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most banned publication in the 2024-25 academic session in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Author King's Carrie
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. At the Tory party gathering, the Tories managed to give out a complimentary present where the term 'Britain' was spelled wrong. What was the present?

   • A sweet bar
   • A tiny jar of honey
   • A labeled bottle of H2O
   • A extremely naughty small dachshund

8. This is Willow, the designated pet of the midweek challenge. The dog wants to find out which famous children's figure is taking legal action against the makers of the satirical show over their recent apparent portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • The stringed puppet
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's guest dog is The pup, who the Thursday challenge met down the pub. Such a good boy. He wants to know what good cause The individual Scanlon, the person in the viral animation meme, has used his online fame to raise funds for

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

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

    • The Cornish town
    • Woldgate
    • Gosport
    • Ledbury

11. Which entity will offer a limited reimbursement to the Australian national government over a $440,000 report that contained multiple errors, after confessing it used AI technology to help create it?

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

12. And now our lately added standard segment, least or most with the entertainer's spirit. Currently the midweek challenge envisions the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the greatest number of Uefa Champions League winners' medals?

    • The defender Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. A boffin (the correct technical term) only found out he'd won the prestigious prize in medical science when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology break in the western US wilderness. What is his name?

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

14. Midweek challenge favourite Taylor Swift has a latest record out. What is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Story of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Exotic Creatures of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a new standard round! On this day with The guitarist May! Plus his animal! Currently the midweek challenge imagines the legendary Band musician would like to learn about the Prague celestial timepiece. 9 October is usually regarded as the day of the first mention to the existence of the timepiece. But in which date?

    • The 13th century
    • 1410
    • 1610
    • 1810

If you truly do think there has been an glaring mistake in a single of the queries or answers – and can show your reasoning and are completely 100% positive you aren’t trying to factcheck a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.