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Thursday comes around and presents another chance for you to test your knowledge in our weekly challenge. Did you pay attention to the news – especially the more unusual parts? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of tedious in-jokes, and then post your score in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

The Questions

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

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

2. Pope Leo has announced his first international tour. Where is the religious leader traveling?

   • Egypt and Libya
   • The European country and the island
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • Syldavia and Borduria

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

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting The adventurer Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday quiz after the hiatus asked who France's new prime minister was, and just a month later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. What French Prime Minister has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron one more headache?

   • Mr. Lecornu
   • Mr. Darmanin
   • Mr. Bayrou
   • Mr. Colbert

5. We lost Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' love novels. What of these two well-known ones came first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

6. Talking of books, The organization America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most banned publication in the current school session in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Stephen King's Carrie
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. At the Conservative political gathering, the Conservatives managed to give out a complimentary gift where the term 'Britain' was spelt wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny jar of sweet substance
   • A branded bottle of H2O
   • A extremely naughty miniature dog breed

8. The is The canine, the official pet of the midweek quiz. She would like to know which famous kids' figure is suing the producers of the satirical show over their latest apparent portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • The stringed puppet
   • The fox puppet
   • Paddington

9. This week's visiting canine is The pup, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. He would like to find out what charitable effort Drew Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral popularity to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • The disease
   • The neurological disorder

10. Seventeen of The artist Hockney's digital drawings are to be sold at auction. The artworks are of where?

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • Ledbury

11. Which entity will offer a partial reimbursement to the Australian federal administration over a $440,000 report that included several mistakes, after confessing it used AI artificial intelligence to assist produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • Accenture
    • KPMG
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. Next up our recently added regular round, comparative with the entertainer's ghost. This week the midweek challenge imagines the ghost of Liberace would like to find out which of these people has the greatest number of Uefa Champions League winners' medals?

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

13. An academic (the proper technical term) only found out he'd won the Nobel award in medical science when his wife turned her phone on after they had been on a digital detox in the western US wilderness. What is his identity?

    • Mr. Branscombe
    • Mr. Denshaw
    • Fred Ramsdell
    • Bobson Dugnutt

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

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Syllabus of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Animals of the Ocean

15. And finally … a recent regular round! Today in history with The guitarist May! Plus his badger! Currently the midweek quiz envisions the legendary Queen guitarist would like to learn about the Prague celestial clock. 9 October is generally regarded as the day of the first reference to the existence of the clock. However in which date?

    • The 13th century
    • 1410
    • 1610
    • The 19th century

Should you truly believe there has been an egregious error in a single of the questions or responses – and can demonstrate your reasoning and are absolutely 100% certain you are not attempting to factcheck a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the comments below.