Thursday rolls around and brings with it another opportunity for you to test your mettle in our weekly quiz. Have you been paying attention 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 comments to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!The Thursday news quiz, No 2181.Canterbury cathedral is getting its first female archbishop. Who?2.Pope Leo has announced his first overseas tour. Where is the pontiff heading?3.Amazon Prime has changed promotional images on its streaming video service after people complained it was doing what …4.Hilariously, the first Thursday quiz after the hiatus asked who France's new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. Which French PM has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron yet another headache?5.We lost Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. Which of these two very famous ones came first?6.Talking of books, PEN America’s Banned in the USA study found what was the most banned book in the 2024-25 school year in the US?7.At the Conservative party conference, the Tories managed to give out a free gift where the word 'Britain' was spelt wrong. What was the gift?8.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She wants to know which famous children's character is suing the makers of Spitting Image over their recent apparent depiction of it …9.This week's guest canine is Frank, who the Thursday quiz met down the pub. What a good boy. He wants to know what good cause Drew Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral fame to raise funds for10.Seventeen of David Hockney's iPad drawings are to be sold at auction. The drawings are of where?11.Who will provide a partial refund to Australia's federal government over a $440,000 report that contained several errors, after admitting it used generative artificial intelligence (pictured) to help produce it?12.And now our recently introduced regular round, least or most with Liberace's ghost. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these people has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' medals?13.A boffin (the correct technical term) only found out he'd won the Nobel prize in medicine when his wife switched her phone on after they had been on a digital detox in the western US backcountry. What is his name?14.Thursday quiz favourite Taylor Swift has a new album out. What is it called?15.And finally … a new regular round! On this day with Brian May! And his badger! This week the Thursday quiz imagines the legendary Queen guitarist wants to know about the Prague astronomical clock. 9 October is generally regarded as the date of the first reference to the existence of the clock. But in which year?If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t attempting to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below. Why not watch Honey, Do You See Me? by EERA instead?Honey, Do You See Me? by EERA
Thursday news quiz: book bans, bonkbuster authors and a papal visit
Test yourself on topical news trivia, pop culture and general knowledge every Thursday. How will you fare?
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