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Thursday arrives and presents another chance for you to test your knowledge in our regular challenge. Did you pay attention to the news – particularly the quirkier bits? Discover here, while also experiencing a set of tedious in-jokes, and then post your score in the comments to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

Our Queries

1. The historic church is getting its first woman archbishop. Who?

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

2. The pontiff Leo has announced his first international visit. To which location is the pontiff heading?

   • Egypt and Libya
   • The European country and Cyprus
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • The fictional country and Borduria

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

   • Showing The detective Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his leather tool
   • Depicting The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Hilariously, the first Thursday challenge after the break inquired who the French new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. What France's Prime Minister has just quit, giving President Macron yet another problem?

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

5. We lost Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' love novels. What of these pair very famous ones came first?

   • Rivals
   • The equestrian story

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

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

7. At the Tory party gathering, the Tories managed to distribute a complimentary gift where the term 'The country' was spelled wrong. Which item was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small container of honey
   • A labeled bottle of water
   • A extremely naughty miniature dog breed

8. The is Willow, the official pet of the midweek quiz. The dog wants to know which well-known children's figure is taking legal action against the producers of the satirical show over their recent apparent depiction of it …

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

9. This week's visiting canine is The pup, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. He wants to know what charitable effort The individual Scanlon, the person in the viral animation meme, has used his viral popularity to raise funds for

   • The health condition
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • Multiple sclerosis

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

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

11. Which entity will provide a limited refund to Australia's federal government over a expensive report that included multiple errors, after admitting it used generative technology to assist create it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our lately added standard segment, least or most with Liberace's spirit. This week the Thursday quiz envisions the spirit of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the MOST European Champions League victory awards?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • Kate Bush

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

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

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

    • Admissions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Life of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Exotic Creatures of the Ocean

15. And finally … a recent standard round! On this day with The guitarist May! Plus his badger! This week the midweek challenge imagines the iconic Queen musician wants to know about the Prague astronomical timepiece. October 9 is generally regarded as the day of the first mention to the presence of the clock. But in which year?

    • The 13th century
    • The 15th century
    • 1610
    • The 19th century

If you really do think there has been an glaring error in a single of the questions or responses – and can demonstrate your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t trying to factcheck a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.