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After the recent kerfuffle over what constitutes the first line of a play, the Thursday quiz has decided to avoid theatre altogether and focus instead on its core principles: sowing mischief, mayhem and mild confusion. Take your seats, silence your mobile phones and prepare for 15 questions of topical tomfoolery – and a couple of cute-looking dogs. There are no prizes, but we love it when you tell us how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz: No 225
- 1.Wetherspoons is to open its first pub outside the UK and Ireland, in the departure lounge at which airport?
- 2.At $9.12m, what just became the most expensive comic ever sold?
- 3.Jeremy Corbyn is making a video cameo in a panto in Islington alongside which other celebrity?
- 4.The Hayli Gubbi volcano (not pictured) has erupted – according to seismological boffins (the correct technical term) – for the first time in almost 12,000 years. Where is it?
- 5.The minimum wage for 18- to 20-year-olds will be rising after Rachel Reeves's budget yesterday. To what (not pictured)?
- 6.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She heard Mexico is having a crisis with its 50 peso note, because people are hoarding it for the picture of which little critter on it?
- 7.This week's guest canine is Robert, whom the Thursday quiz often meets at Bar Trash cinema screenings. Robert wants to know which country has pledged to eradicate its feral cats by 2050.
- 8.Canada is also on a mission to eradicate a pesky critter (not pictured). In this case, Ottawa is proposing to cull which unlikely menace?
- 9.Keir Starmer said: 'I didn’t start it, Miss' after he appeared to encourage children to indulge in which meme during a visit to a school in Peterborough?
- 10.Here is Karl-Heinz, with his opening lines, which almost rhymes. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the German soccer ace would like to know which film begins: 'People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden.'
- 11.Everton's Idrissa Gueye was sent off against Manchester United on Monday night. What did he get the red card (pictured) for?
- 12.Brazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro (not pictured) has claimed he took a soldering iron to his electronic ankle monitor after what?
- 13.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 recordings has spent the most weeks at No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the US.
- 14.It's time for On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 27 November is the anniversary of the first performance of Also sprach Zarathustra, forever associated with 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen’s legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – who composed it.
- 15.The actor Brian Cox appeared to be blindsided by what recently?
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 remember Mani by watching the iconic Top of the Pops performance of Fool’s Gold by the Stone Roses instead?
