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Thursday comes around and presents one more chance for you to test your knowledge in our regular quiz. Did you pay heed to the news – especially the quirkier parts? Discover here, while also experiencing a series of tedious in-jokes, and then share your result in the comments to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!

The Queries

1. The historic church is welcoming its first female archbishop. Who?

   • Ms. Connelly
   • Sarah Mullally
   • Ms. Bellamy
   • Ms. Holloway

2. Pope Leo has revealed his first overseas visit. Where is the religious leader heading?

   • The African nation and its neighbor
   • The European country and the island
   • Turkey and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and Borduria

3. Amazon Prime has altered marketing images on its online content service after people complained it was doing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his leather tool
   • Depicting The spy Bond without his gun
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday challenge after the hiatus inquired who France's new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door labeled 'do one'. Which French PM has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron one more headache?

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

5. The world mourned Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'bonkbuster' love novels. What of these two very famous ones was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Talking of literature, The organization America’s Banned in the USA study found what was the most banned publication in the current school session in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's The horror story
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. At the Tory party gathering, the Conservatives succeeded to give out a free gift where the term 'Britain' was spelt wrong. Which item was the gift?

   • A sweet bar
   • A small jar of sweet substance
   • A labeled bottle of water
   • A very mischievous small dachshund

8. This is The canine, the official pet of the Thursday quiz. She wants to find out which well-known kids' character is taking legal action against the makers of Spitting Image over their recent seeming depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's guest dog is The pup, who the Thursday challenge met down the bar. What a good boy. He wants to find out what charitable effort The individual Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral fame to collect money for

   • The health condition
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • The neurological disorder

10. 17 of The artist Hockney's digital drawings are to be sold at sale. The artworks are of which location?

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • Gosport
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will offer a partial refund to Australia's national administration over a expensive document that included multiple mistakes, after confessing it employed AI technology to help create it?

    • The consulting firm
    • The professional services company
    • The audit firm
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our lately added regular round, least or most with the entertainer's ghost. This week the midweek quiz imagines the spirit of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the greatest number of European Champions League winners' medals?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • The forward Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. An academic (the proper technical word) only discovered he'd won the prestigious prize in medical science when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a digital break in the western US backcountry. What is his identity?

    • Jed Branscombe
    • Grant Denshaw
    • Fred Ramsdell
    • Bobson Dugnutt

14. Thursday quiz favorite Taylor Swift has a latest album out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Story of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Exotic Creatures of the Deep

15. And finally … a recent standard round! On this day with Brian May! And his badger! This week the Thursday quiz envisions the legendary Band guitarist wants to learn about the Prague astronomical clock. 9 October is generally regarded as the date of the first reference to the existence of the clock. However in which date?

    • The 13th century
    • 1410
    • 1610
    • The 19th century

Should you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the queries or responses – and can demonstrate your reasoning and are absolutely 100% positive you are not attempting to factcheck a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.