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This week we hit a milestone, with it being the 200th Thursday quiz. That means since the very first one in April 2021 there have been approximately 3,000 questions, of which only about 2,995 of them have generated somebody in the comments going: “Well, actually, I think you’ll find …” followed by a minor quibble. Thank you so much to everybody who regularly does the quiz, and especially those of you who join in with the comments every week. It was originally pitched as an eight-week series to see if it proved popular, and here we all still are. Have fun and let us know how you get on in the comments …
The Thursday quiz, No 200
- 1.Residents near Longships Lighthouse have been driven to distraction after a faulty fog warning sounded every 13 seconds for a week. The lighthouse is off the coast of where?
- 2.Skype, having been completely eclipsed by Zoom just at the moment a pandemic hit and loads of people were working from home, is to be shuttered. It is owned by which company, who acquired it in 2011?
- 3.Scientists who are planning to unextinct the wooly mammoth (pictured, chasing a scientist) have taken steps towards that dream by genetically altering which animal to make a woolly version?
- 4.People who find the Oscars ceremony boring had another reason to hate it at the weekend after who broke the record for longest acceptance speech?
- 5.A treasured possession of Isaac Newton (just out of shot, about to discover gravity) is to go on display for the first time at a Royal Society exhibition in London. What?
- 6.Eurovision – much loved by the Thursday quiz – has unveiled its first mascot for the competition (pictured), which has not, it is fair to say, been universally well received. What is it called?
- 7.Scientists have been bothering the moon again by landing stuff on it. What is the name of the Firefly Aerospace craft that landed there at the weekend?
- 8.Here is Karl-Heinz with his opening lines. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the German soccer legend would like to know which science fiction TV series opens its first transmitted episode with the line "Shall we pick some flowers, Doctor? When a man visits an old girlfriend she usually expects something like that"
- 9.It's scores on the doors with Swindon’s Diana Dors. This week the somewhat unsightly statue wants to know, if you are playing in the NFL, how many points do you get for kicking a field goal?
- 10.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She knows that the quiz master once painfully spelled Guatemala incorrectly at every mention during an Olympics live blog, but she doesn't know the capital of Guatemala. What is it?
- 11.If it ain't broke, don't fix it, so the law-making International Football Association Board has decided to fiddle around with football again. From next season, if a goalkeeper holds on to the ball in their hands for more than eight seconds, the referee will do what?
- 12.What was the name of the Russian who presented the first recognisable form of the periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society on this day in 1869
- 13.It is Alan Davies' birthday today. Happy birthday Alan! What unusual structure did his character Jonathan Creek live in?
- 14.For some reason artist Grahame Hurd-Wood has decided to paint a portrait of everybody who lives in Britain’s smallest city by population. What is Britain’s smallest city?
- 15.The world's largest runaway iceberg appears to have run aground near South Georgia. What have scientists called it?
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 I Just Needed You To Know by Girl Scout instead?
