Midweek News Quiz Number 218: Examine Your Awareness of Latest Events

Thursday arrives and presents another chance for you to test your knowledge in our weekly challenge. Did you pay attention to the current events – particularly the more unusual bits? Find out here, while also enduring a set of tedious in-jokes, and then share your result in the comments to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

The Queries

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

   • Ella Connelly
   • Ms. Mullally
   • Fiona Bellamy
   • Ms. Holloway

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

   • Egypt and its neighbor
   • The European country and the island
   • Turkey and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. The streaming Prime has changed marketing images on its online content platform after people complained it was doing what …

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his pipe
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Showing James Bond without his gun
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his moustache

4. Hilariously, the first Thursday challenge after the hiatus asked who the French new government leader was, and just a month later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. Which France's Prime Minister has just resigned, giving President Macron yet another problem?

   • Sébastien Lecornu
   • Mr. Darmanin
   • Mr. Bayrou
   • Léon Colbert

5. The world mourned Jilly Cooper, renowned for her 'romantic' love novels. Which of these pair very famous ones came first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

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

   • Author Blume’s The novel
   • Author Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Author King's Carrie
   • Singer Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political gathering, the Conservatives managed to give out a complimentary gift where the word 'The country' was spelled wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small jar of sweet substance
   • A labeled container of water
   • A extremely mischievous small dachshund

8. The is The canine, the official pet of the Thursday challenge. The dog would like to know which well-known kids' character is suing the makers of the satirical show over their latest seeming depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • The stringed puppet
   • Basil Brush
   • Paddington

9. The current guest canine is Frank, who the Thursday challenge met down the bar. What a good boy. The dog would like to know what good cause The individual Scanlon, the man in the viral gif meme, has utilized his online fame to raise funds for

   • The health condition
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • Multiple sclerosis

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

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • Gosport
    • Ledbury

11. Who will provide a partial refund to Australia's national administration over a expensive report that contained several mistakes, after admitting it employed generative artificial intelligence to assist produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • The professional services company
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently added standard segment, least or most with Liberace's spirit. Currently the Thursday quiz imagines the ghost of the pianist would like to know which of these people has the MOST European Champions League winners' medals?

    • The defender Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • The singer Bush

13. A boffin (the proper technical term) only found out he'd won the Nobel prize in medical science when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology detox in the western US wilderness. Which is his identity?

    • Jed Branscombe
    • Grant Denshaw
    • Mr. Ramsdell
    • Mr. Dugnutt

14. Thursday quiz favourite The singer Swift has a latest record out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Creatures of the Ocean

15. And finally … a new standard segment! On this day with Brian May! Plus his badger! Currently the Thursday quiz envisions the iconic Queen guitarist wants to learn about the Czech astronomical timepiece. October 9 is usually regarded as the date of the first mention to the presence of the clock. But in which date?

    • 1210
    • 1410
    • 1610
    • 1810

Should you truly believe there has been an egregious mistake in one of the queries or answers – and can show your working and are completely 100% positive you are not trying to verify a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.