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Pop the champagne, fire the glitter cannons, let off some sky lanterns and then get castigated for the fire hazard and risk to wildlife they cause. Lo and behold it is the 250th Guardian Thursday news quiz, and a special bumper edition at that. Twenty-two questions await you on topical news, general knowledge, pop culture, and the re-appearance of every regular round we’ve previously had, and could remember, and which didn’t cause us legal problems. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 250
- 1.Students in which country (not pictured) are up in arms over claims that a super-duper new computerised marking system has ended up giving them incorrect grades in vital exams?
- 2.A tree, which is more than 200 years old and which produced the first ever example of which type of apples (not pictured, that is the Pokémon Applin), is under threat after the garden where it stands has been sold?
- 3.Who recently said that backing Thursday quiz favourite Liz Truss (pictured) as the next leader of the Conservative party was his biggest political mistake?
- 4.Talking of the Tories, which Kemi Badenoch-backing (pictured) US rapper has said they are coming over to attend the Spectator's summer party in London?
- 5.A meteor (not the one pictured) crashing towards Earth exploded over which north-eastern US state on Saturday?
- 6.Send Derren Brown today's collective noun. Use your psychic powers to let him know what the collective noun is for boars?
- 7.Lawyers advised who to remain completely silent during their appearance at Hay festival due to legal action by Meta?
- 8.Scores on the doors with Swindon's Diana Dors! What was the score in the men's Uefa Champions League final?
- 9.Farther or nearer with Geordie Alan Shearer! This week we imagine the England soccer legend wants to know, if he leaves his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne, which – as the crow flies and according to freemaptools.com – is farther or nearer – Gosport, England or Nairn, Scotland?
- 10.Sterling Nasa had to step up and join the band when the keyboard player fell ill in Sydney at a live-scored performance of which musical?
- 11.Who returned to the stage after the final bows to criticise an audience member for texting during the climax of her West End performance?
- 12.As well as the 250th edition of the Thursday news quiz, it is also Bradley Walsh's birthday today. Happy birthday Bradders! The Chase! What was the name of his character in Doctor Who?
- 13.The Thursday quiz fondly remembers Keith Chegwin, so here is Cheggers plays population! According to Hergé's King Ottokar's Sceptre, what is the population of Syldavia? (Is this getting too self-indulgent? - Ed)
- 14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 4 June is the anniversary of a suffragette being struck by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby. She subsequently died. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – what was her name …
- 15.Cave boffins (the correct technical term) have decided that the walls of Bacon Hole, a cave near the Mumbles in south Wales, contains the oldest example of cave art in Britain (not pictured, that is just a cave). What does the art depict?
- 16.This week's guest avian is Spick, one half of Spick and Span, a pigeon couple that have apparently moved into the quiz master's balcony. Spick wants to know which rock artist's new art exhibition was described in the Guardian as 'at the intellectual level of a 12-year-old who has just visited Tate Modern for the first time'?
- 17.A brand new regular round! Here come the Bee Gees with the heebie-jeebies. This week the quiz imagines the harmonic trio want to know what herpetophobia is the fear of?
- 18.Those of a certain age will remember the battle between VHS and Betamax for home video recording format superiority. Which company introduced VHS?
- 19.Willow is back for a guest appearance! The retired former official dog of the Guardian Thursday news quiz is doing well and being looked after, but today she is grumpy because which of her favourite artists was forced to speak about their 'deep sadness' after being body-shamed on social media after the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend?
- 20.While we are on the subject of misogyny, which fool of a Took at the French Open claimed his second-round match should not have been umpired by a woman?
- 21.Least or most with Liberace's ghost. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these US artists has spent the most weeks in the official UK singles charts?
- 22.And finally, the return of maths with Goths! If you take the number of teams in this summer's men's Fifa World Cup and add the number of MP constituencies in the UK's House of Commons then subtract the number of days Liz Truss was prime minister, what do you get, apart from a headache?
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. Since the Thursday quiz has always done it its own way, why not watch Do Things My Own Way by Sparks instead?
Do Things My Own Way by Sparks
