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It is time for the Thursday news quiz, where, thanks to our illustration from Anaïs Mims, you must decide whether you are gliding serenely across the waters of knowledge, your elegant neck forming a perfect question mark, or paddling furiously beneath the surface, one wrong answer away from an undignified flap. Fifteen questions on topical headlines, pop culture and general knowledge await. There are no prizes, but we always enjoy hearing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 241
- 1.Paul McCartney has announced he will be releasing his 18th solo album. What is it to be called?
- 2.Tate Liverpool has lent a painting to a Salford school by an artist who shares its name. Who?
- 3.YouGov (not pictured – Thursday quiz lawyers) have withdrawn a survey after concluding its data had been infested with bogus responses as respondents who are often paid for their participation use AI to fill in questionnaires at speed. What had the survey claimed?
- 4.Which member of the US administration (not pictured, probably) told a podcast that he believed unidentified anomalous phenomena (the UAPs formerly known as UFOs) were more likely to be demons than aliens?
- 5.Tottenham continued to add to the gaiety of the nation by yeeting Igor Tudor through the door marked 'do one' after they brought him in to help stave off relegation and he won precisely zero league matches. But who lasted longer – Igor Tudor as Tottenham manager, or Liz Truss as prime minister?
- 6.Talking of Thursday quiz favourite Liz Truss, she was the subject of an April fools news story this week. What was it?
- 7.Which grizzled old rocker – who can't be short of a penny or two – has surprised fans by appearing to join Patreon?
- 8.This week's guest canine is Turner, who the Thursday quiz met – as ever – in a pub. Turner wants to know the names of the two nine-month-old capybaras who escaped from Marwell zoo near Winchester.
- 9.The viral arrest video from 1991 of Jack Karlson (pictured in 2024) is to be added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive, in a frankly correct move. Which of these things did he NOT say?
- 10.Kim Novak has complained that the casting of whom is wrong to play her in a biopic?
- 11.Jerome, in south-west Missouri, has been battling its own version the great stink after 40,000lb of extra-firm what was spilled in an accident and left in the open for weeks, creating a smell that local officials called 'unforgettable'?
- 12.Mary Rand, Britain’s first female Olympic gold medallist in athletics, has died at the age of 86. When and where was that gold medal?
- 13.Which country has seen a demonstration by clowns who claim a new law will prevent schools from hosting them and affect their livelihood?
- 14.A half-blind 12-year-old New Mexico dog is being called a hero after she fended off what sort of intruder (not pictured) at her family’s home, protecting dozens of chickens and other animals but only narrowly surviving the violent encounter?
- 15.And finally … the Thursday quiz is always very suspicious of brand jokes at this time of year – 'KitKat heist' we are looking at you – but a Tesco branch apparently ordered about one zillion bananas too many and made headlines. Where did the excess bananas (not pictured) arrive?
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 Empathy by Bathing Suits instead?
