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When the Thursday quiz was first mooted, it was pitched as being a bit like a pub quiz, with topical questions and some general knowledge, but it would be at a lunchtime and everybody would be sober. Unfortunately, since that original lofty ideal, it has now turned out to mostly be a string of obscure in-jokes hastily scribbled on the back of an envelope down the pub on a Wednesday night. Still, here we all are. Have fun, and let us know how you get on in the comments.
The Thursday quiz, No 186
- 1.Who had to apologise this week after accidentally including the URL of an adult website (very much not pictured) on their branded packaging?
- 2.Social media influencer Matthew Choi got himself disqualified from the New York marathon after he did what?
- 3.England’s troubled HS2 railway (pictured) from somewhere near London to somewhere near the Midlands spent a cool £100m on covering a section of track with a shed to protect a woodland species of what?
- 4.Which of the approximately one billion celebrities to have recently written a children’s book has had to withdraw it after the book was condemned in Australia for perpetuating harmful stereotypes and ‘trivialising the complex and painful histories’ of the First Nations communities?
- 5.World Cup Golden Boot winner and crisp enthusiast Gary Lineker has been told to do one from his Match of the Day presenting duties. Who first presented the show in 1964?
- 6.Police had to be called in Hampshire after queues lasting four hours developed during a warehouse sale offering discounts on what?
- 7.This is Willow, who looks rather like a very naughty miniature dachshund, but is actually the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. Talking of lookalikes, someone won "€20, or three pints" in a Dublin contest seeking lookalikes of which Irish actor?
- 8.Authorities in Zhengzhou, China, have placed a restriction on night cycling after tens of thousands of students started doing 31-mile (50km) rides in search of what?
- 9.Mark Cavendish signed off on his extraordinary record-breaking cycling career with a victory in which race at the weekend?
- 10.Here is Karl-Heinz Rummenigge with his opening lines. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the German soccer legend would like to know which Douglas Adams novel opens: "The story so far: In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- 11.It is scores on the doors with Swindon’s Diana Dors. This week the statue wants to ask you about hurling. You get one point for thwacking the sliotar through the big sticks, but how many points do you get for scoring a goal, when it goes into the net?
- 12.Who recently got into hot water for suggesting that yoga and Dungeons and Dragons were "examples of occult activity"?
- 13.Some adorable rhesus macaques are enjoying a late brat summer after escaping from a research facility in South Carolina. How many escaped?
- 14.Samantha Harvey has won the Booker prize for her novel which is described as "beautiful and ambitious" by the judging chair Edmund de Waal. But what is it called?
- 15.The lovely Kate Bush has been nominated for two Grammy awards this year, including for "best boxed or special limited edition package", which doesn’t feel like a real category to be honest. But how many Grammy awards has Kate Bush previously won?
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 Fast Boys & Factory Girls by Port Sulphur instead?
