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Thursday comes around and presents another opportunity for you to challenge your awareness in our regular challenge. Have you been paying attention to the current events – particularly the quirkier parts? Find out here, while also experiencing a set of boring in-jokes, and then post your score in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

The Queries

1. The historic cathedral is getting its first female archbishop. Which person?

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

2. Pope Leo has announced his first international tour. Where is the religious leader heading?

   • The African nation and Libya
   • Greece and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • Syldavia and its rival

3. Amazon Prime has altered promotional images on its online content platform after people objected it was doing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Depicting James Bond without his firearm
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday challenge after the hiatus inquired who the French new government leader was, and just a month later they have already been removed through the door marked 'do one'. What France's Prime Minister has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron one more problem?

   • Sébastien Lecornu
   • Gérald Darmanin
   • François Bayrou
   • Léon Colbert

5. The world mourned Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. What of these pair very famous ones came first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Talking of literature, PEN America’s Banned in the USA study found what was the most banned book in the current academic year in the US?

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

7. During the Conservative political gathering, the Tories succeeded to give out a complimentary present where the word 'The country' was spelled wrong. Which item was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny container of honey
   • A labeled bottle of H2O
   • A very mischievous miniature dog breed

8. This is Willow, the designated pet of the Thursday quiz. She wants to know which well-known kids' figure is suing the producers of the satirical show over their latest apparent depiction of it …

   • Bagpuss
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • Paddington

9. This week's guest dog is Frank, who the midweek challenge met down the pub. What a well-behaved dog. He wants to find out what good cause Drew Scanlon, the man in the viral animation meme, has utilized his viral popularity to collect money for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • Cancer
   • Multiple sclerosis

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

    • The Cornish town
    • The Yorkshire location
    • The Hampshire town
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will offer a limited reimbursement to the Australian national administration over a $440,000 document that included multiple errors, after admitting it used AI technology to assist create it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our recently added regular segment, comparative with the entertainer's ghost. This week the midweek challenge envisions the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the MOST European Champions League winners' medals?

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

13. A boffin (the proper scientific term) only found out he'd won the Nobel prize in medicine when his spouse switched her mobile on after they had been on a digital detox in the western US backcountry. What is his identity?

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

14. Thursday quiz favourite Taylor Swift has a latest record out. What is it called?

    • Admissions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Story of a Performer
    • The Syllabus of Romantic sorrow
    • Unusual Animals of the Deep

15. Lastly … a recent standard segment! On this day with Brian May! Plus his animal! Currently the midweek quiz imagines the iconic Band musician would like to know about the Czech astronomical clock. 9 October is usually regarded as the date of the first mention to the presence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • 1210
    • 1410
    • 1610
    • 1810

Should you truly do think there has been an glaring mistake in one of the queries or responses – and can demonstrate your working and are absolutely 100% certain you aren’t attempting to factcheck a humorous element – you can complain about it in the feedback section below.