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Thursday arrives and brings another opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge 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 result in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

Our Questions

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

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

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

   • The African nation and its neighbor
   • Greece and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. The streaming Prime has changed promotional images on its online content platform after people complained it was doing what …

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Showing Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Showing James Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Hilariously, the first Thursday 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 marked 'do one'. What French Prime Minister has just quit, giving President Macron yet another headache?

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

5. The world mourned Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. Which of these two very famous ones was published first?

   • Rivals
   • The equestrian story

6. Speaking of literature, PEN America’s Prohibited in the USA study found what was the most restricted publication in the 2024-25 school year in the US?

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

7. At the Conservative political conference, the Tories managed to give out a complimentary present where the term 'The country' was spelt wrong. What was the present?

   • A sweet bar
   • A small jar of honey
   • A branded bottle of water
   • A very mischievous small dachshund

8. This is The canine, the official dog of the midweek quiz. The dog wants to find out which famous kids' figure is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their latest apparent depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. The current visiting canine is The pup, who the Thursday challenge encountered down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. He would like to find out what good cause Drew Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral fame to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • The disease
   • The neurological disorder

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

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will provide a partial refund to Australia's federal administration over a $440,000 report that included several mistakes, after admitting it used AI artificial intelligence to assist create it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our lately introduced standard round, comparative with Liberace's ghost. Currently the midweek challenge envisions the ghost of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the MOST European Champions League victory awards?

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

13. A boffin (the proper technical word) only discovered he'd received the prestigious prize in medical science when his wife switched 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
    • Mr. Dugnutt

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

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Story of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Exotic Animals of the Deep

15. Lastly … a recent standard segment! Today in history with The guitarist May! And his badger! This week the midweek challenge envisions the iconic Band guitarist would like to learn about the Czech celestial timepiece. 9 October is generally regarded as the day of the first mention to the presence of the clock. However in which year?

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

If you really do think there has been an glaring mistake in a single of the queries or answers – and can demonstrate your working and are completely 100% certain you are not trying to factcheck a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.