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It is Thursday. You’re tired. The quiz is tired. The official dog of the quiz is tired. We’re all tired. But somehow, with the weekend in sight, it is time to summon up the enthusiasm for the only news quiz on the internet that deliberately trolls its readers with increasingly unhinged question themes and in-joke answers – the Guardian’s long-running and slightly baffling Thursday news quiz. There are no prizes but we love to hear how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 219
- 1.Who won the Nobel prize for literature?
- 2.The Thursday quiz cannot believe its luck with French politics at the moment, as for the third time in just six weeks it asks: who has been appointed/resigned/reappointed as prime minister of France by Emmanuel Macron (pictured)? Come on, you must have clocked his name by now …
- 3.Which company is insisting staff hand over their biometric data to access its new Manhattan skyscraper office?
- 4.Runners and cyclists are in a tizz because fitness app Strava has got itself into a legal dispute with which gadget manufacturer?
- 5.Wales’s World Cup qualifier defeat by Belgium was interrupted by what?
- 6.Thursday quiz favourite Taylor Swift has announced a behind-the-scenes look at her hugely successful last tour. What is the docuseries to be called?
- 7.A Sydney club has announced it will change its name after initially suggesting it would be named after a song by the Thursday quiz favourite Chappell Roan, but then making clear it was trying to predominantly cater for men rather than women. Which song had they based the name on?
- 8.Which US city staged an impromptu Emergency World Naked Bike Ride (not pictured for obvious reasons) on Sunday to protest against Donald Trump (sort of pictured) attempting to deploy forces there?
- 9.This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She wants to know which US high school girls basketball team returned a championship it had won after realising they had actually lost the title-clinching game after a scoreboard error. Who was it?
- 10.This week's guest canine is Hendrix, pictured here helping out at the Someday bar in Finsbury Park in north London, where he 'works'. He wants to know the name of the hero dog who led a Florida sheriff’s deputy to where a missing 86-year-old woman had fallen while walking him. It was …
- 11.The Thursday quiz was saddened to learn that Sia and her estranged husband, Dan Bernad (not pictured), are in a difficult legal divorce situation, but the news did remind the quiz what they had called their child – which was …
- 12.And now our exciting regular round … this week, the Thursday quiz imagines the ghost of Liberace would like to know which of these people has won the most Academy Awards for best actress?
- 13.A 'very significant' unpublished story by Jack Kerouac (pictured in 1967) described as 'a lost chapter of the On the Road saga' has been discovered. What was the subtitle?
- 14.It is time for on this day with Brian May! And his badger! 16 October is the anniversary of the execution of Marie Antoinette. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – when it happened …
- 15.Thursday quiz favourite Kate Bush (not pictured) has commissioned 52 visual works of art to raise money for the War Child charity, based on the lyrics of which of her amazing songs?
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 Unbroken by Howling Bells instead?
