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Thursday comes around and brings another chance for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly challenge. Have you been paying heed to the news – particularly the more unusual parts? Find out here, while also enduring a set of tedious in-jokes, and then post your result in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Let's go!

Our Questions

1. Canterbury church is getting its first female religious leader. Which person?

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

2. The pontiff Leo has revealed his first overseas tour. Where is the religious leader heading?

   • The African nation and its neighbor
   • The European country and Cyprus
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. The streaming Prime has changed promotional pictures on its streaming video platform after people objected it was doing what …

   • Depicting Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Depicting James Bond without his gun
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his moustache

4. Amusingly, the first midweek quiz after the break asked who France's new prime minister was, and just a month later they have already been removed through the door marked 'do one'. Which French PM has just resigned, giving President Macron one more headache?

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

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

   • The competitive novel
   • The equestrian story

6. Speaking of literature, The organization America’s Prohibited in the USA report found what was the most restricted publication in the 2024-25 academic session in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s The novel
   • Anthony Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's Carrie
   • Singer Barlow's Massive Son

7. During the Conservative party gathering, the Tories managed to distribute a complimentary present where the term 'The country' was spelled wrong. Which item was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny jar of sweet substance
   • A branded container of H2O
   • A very naughty miniature dachshund

8. The is The canine, the official dog of the Thursday quiz. The dog wants to find out which well-known children's character is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their recent seeming depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's visiting canine is Frank, who the Thursday quiz encountered 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 online popularity to collect money for

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

10. 17 of The artist Hockney's iPad drawings are to be sold at sale. The drawings are of where?

    • The Cornish town
    • The Yorkshire location
    • Gosport
    • Ledbury

11. Who will provide a limited reimbursement to the Australian national administration over a expensive document that contained several mistakes, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence to assist produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our lately added regular round, comparative with Liberace's spirit. Currently the Thursday challenge imagines the spirit of Liberace would like to find out which of these individuals has the MOST Uefa Champions League victory medals?

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

13. A boffin (the correct scientific word) only discovered he'd won the Nobel prize in medical science when his spouse switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology detox in the American West backcountry. What is his name?

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

14. Midweek quiz favorite Taylor Swift has a latest record out. What is it called?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Syllabus of Heartbreak
    • Exotic Creatures of the Deep

15. Lastly … a new standard segment! Today in history with Brian May! And his animal! This week the midweek quiz imagines the legendary Band musician would like to know about the Prague astronomical timepiece. 9 October is usually regarded as the day of the first reference to the presence of the clock. But in which year?

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

Should you truly do think there has been an egregious error in one of the queries or responses – and can demonstrate your reasoning and are absolutely 100% certain you are not attempting to factcheck a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.