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Thursday rolls around once again and this week’s quiz – thanks to Anaïs Mims’ whimsical illustration – asks whether you really followed the news, or whether you disappeared down a few particularly strange rabbit holes during the week. Fifteen tests of your topical, general and pop culture knowledge await you, including an exciting new round featuring the legendary Keith Chegwin, which definitely did not just get made up in the pub after too many drinks on a Monday night. There are no prizes, but we enjoy seeing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 237
- 1.A sinkhole that opened up on a golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century. Where?
- 2.Which famous nightclub in Paris, where Grace Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Andy Warhol were legendary performers or guests, is set to reopen?
- 3.The Telegraph has been censured after it ran a story which turned out to be completely fictional claiming what?
- 4.Who won best band (not pictured) at the Brits?
- 5.Firefighters where have rescued about 400 rare books from a library that hangs on the edge of a mudflow, after a devastating landslide in January tore away an entire slope of the town?
- 6.The US women’s ice hockey team will be honoured at a Las Vegas event in July hosted by whom?
- 7.A 'Pastafarian' in rural Queensland has vowed to fight to keep his driving licence featuring a photo of him wearing what on his head?
- 8.This week's guest canine is Mr Foxy of Walthamstow, who got very very close to letting the Thursday quiz stroke him the other night. He knows England's women's team got off to a cracking start to their World Cup qualifying campaign by spanking someone 6-1 the other night. Who?
- 9.Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company’s employees. What is the company called?
- 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 Eminem song opens its first verse with 'His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti'?
- 11.Which member of the Beckham clan has gone on tour with their new band the Breakers?
- 12.We lost Rob Grant (pictured), who co-created which TV series with Doug Naylor?
- 13.The Thursday quiz fondly remembers Keith Chegwin, and in his honour introduces a new round: Cheggers plays population! What is the population of Andorra?
- 14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 5 March is the anniversary of the launch of the ZX81 computer. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – how much memory it had?
- 15.This is the Pokémon Mamoswine in a park in Manchester. He wants you to tell him what is the name of the new Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch 2 that has just been announced?
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 Stamina by Pixel Grip instead?
