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Now you might read the news every day hoping to better understand the world around you and make your way through life’s complicated twists and turns. The Thursday quiz, on the other hand, reads the news looking for the weird, the strange, the quirky, animals in unexpected places and, of course, French politicians attempting to make a heavy-handed visual metaphor with the books they are carrying. Sixteen questions await you this week – have fun and let us know how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 220
- 1.Who won the Mercury prize?
- 2.Which city in the UK is set to impose higher parking charges for over-sized SUV-style vehicles (not pictured)?
- 3.Great British Railways has installed the first of its sexy new digital clock designs in which London station?
- 4.Museum Wiesbaden in Germany has seen an influx of Taylor Swift fans visiting after the Thursday quiz favourite appeared to use a painting by Friedrich Heyser on display there as inspiration for her latest video. The picture features which Shakespearean character (who appears in the title of Swift's song)?
- 5.Talking of museums, the Thursday quiz's first week in charge of security at the Louvre (pictured) didn't get off to the best of starts to be honest. What did Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau tell broadcaster RTL was the value of the recently heisted jewels?
- 6.The increasingly Franco-centric Thursday quiz has another Paris-based question. Which highly symbolic book did Nicolas Sarkozy take with him as he went straight to jail without passing 'Go' or collecting €200?
- 7.Comedy outfit Nottingham Forest sacked Ange Postecoglou at the weekend after he hilariously failed to win any of his first eight matches in charge. Did he last longer in the role than Liz Truss lasted as prime minister?
- 8.An LA cinema was offering free tickets to people who would get their head shaved in its foyer (not quite pictured) in homage to the shaven-haired role in Bugonia played by …
- 9.Donald Trump (not quite pictured) is apparently demolishing part of which wing of the White House to put in a new $250m ballroom
- 10.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She was amused to hear that a wild bear broke into a zoo and had a peer into the bear enclosure there to say 'hi'. Where?
- 11.This week's guest canine is a feline interloper known affectionately as 'Charlie Hitler' for somewhat obvious reasons. Charlie is furious about most things, and is particularly angry about the fate of what has been described as 'the world's loneliest gorillas', who are still living in which otherwise empty and closed zoo?
- 12.And now, least or most with Liberace's ghost. This week, the Thursday quiz imagines the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these artists has won the MOST Brit awards?
- 13.The auction of equipment formerly owned by which member of Kraftwerk (not quite pictured) is expected to fetch between $450,000 to $650,000?
- 14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! The 23 October is the anniversary of Belgian artist Peyo's comic characters, the Smurfs, making their debut in Spirou magazine. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – in which year …
- 15.What forced the temporary closure of Vilnius airport (actually pictured) this week?
- 16.And finally, a special bonus question. Which new meme is driving teachers up the wall (possibly pictured) as kids keep shouting it out in class for no readily apparent reason?
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 Landslide by Nightbus instead?
