Thursday Current Events Quiz Number 218: Test Your Knowledge of Recent Happenings

Midweek comes around and brings another opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly quiz. Have you been paying attention to the news – particularly the more unusual bits? Discover here, while also enduring a series of tedious in-jokes, and then share your score in the comments to let us know how you performed. Let's go!

The Questions

1. Canterbury church is welcoming its first woman religious leader. Which person?

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

2. The pontiff Leo has revealed his first overseas visit. To which location is the religious leader traveling?

   • The African nation and its neighbor
   • Greece and Cyprus
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. The streaming Prime has changed promotional pictures on its online content platform after people objected it was performing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing James Bond without his gun
   • Showing The musician from Sparks without his moustache

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday quiz after the break asked who France's new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. Which France's PM has just resigned, giving President Macron yet another problem?

   • Mr. Lecornu
   • Gérald Darmanin
   • François Bayrou
   • Mr. Colbert

5. We lost Author Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' love novels. What of these pair very famous titles was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

6. Talking of literature, PEN America’s Prohibited in the USA report found what was the most banned book in the current school session in the US?

   • Author Blume’s Forever
   • Author Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Stephen King's The horror story
   • Singer Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political gathering, the Tories succeeded to distribute a free gift where the term 'Britain' was spelt wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny jar of honey
   • A labeled container of water
   • A extremely naughty miniature dog breed

8. This is The canine, the official pet of the Thursday quiz. She wants to know which well-known children's figure is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their recent apparent portrayal of it …

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

9. The current guest canine is Frank, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the bar. Such a good boy. The dog would like to find out what good cause Drew Scanlon, the person in the viral gif internet phenomenon, has used his online popularity to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • The disease
   • The neurological disorder

10. Seventeen of David Hockney's digital drawings are to be sold at auction. The drawings are of which location?

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • Gosport
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will offer a limited reimbursement to the Australian federal government over a expensive report that included several errors, after confessing it used AI artificial intelligence to help produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • The audit firm
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our recently introduced regular segment, least or most with the entertainer's ghost. Currently the midweek challenge imagines the spirit of Liberace would like to know which of these individuals has the MOST European Champions League victory awards?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • The singer Bush

13. An academic (the proper scientific term) only found out he'd received the Nobel prize in medicine when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a digital break in the American West backcountry. What is his name?

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

14. Midweek challenge favorite Taylor Swift has a new record out. Which title is it called?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Unusual Animals of the Deep

15. Lastly … a recent standard round! On this day with The guitarist May! And his animal! This week the Thursday quiz envisions the iconic Queen guitarist wants to know about the Czech celestial clock. 9 October is usually regarded as the day of the first reference to the presence of the timepiece. However in which date?

    • The 13th century
    • The 15th century
    • 1610
    • 1810

If you truly do think there has been an glaring error in one of the questions or answers – and can demonstrate your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t trying to verify a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.