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Midweek arrives and presents one more chance for you to test your awareness in our regular quiz. Have you been paying heed to the current events – particularly the more unusual parts? Find out here, while also enduring a set of boring in-jokes, and then post your result in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

The Questions

1. Canterbury church is getting its first woman archbishop. Who?

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

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

   • Egypt and its neighbor
   • Greece and Cyprus
   • Turkey and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and its rival

3. Amazon Prime has altered promotional images on its streaming video platform after people objected it was performing what …

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Depicting James Bond without his gun
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

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

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

5. The world mourned Author Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' romance novels. What of these pair very famous titles was published first?

   • Rivals
   • Riders

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

   • Judy Blume’s The novel
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Stephen King's Carrie
   • Singer Barlow's The humorous title

7. At the Conservative political conference, the Conservatives succeeded to give out a free gift where the term 'Britain' was spelled wrong. What was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small jar of sweet substance
   • A branded bottle of water
   • A extremely mischievous small dachshund

8. The is Willow, the official dog of the Thursday challenge. The dog wants to know which well-known kids' character is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their latest apparent portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • The fox puppet
   • The bear from Peru

9. This week's guest dog is Frank, who the midweek quiz met down the pub. Such a good boy. The dog wants to find out what good cause Drew Scanlon, the man in the viral animation meme, has utilized his online fame to raise funds for

   • The health condition
   • Cardiovascular illness
   • Cancer
   • The neurological disorder

10. Seventeen of David Hockney's iPad artworks are to be sold at sale. The artworks are of where?

    • The Cornish town
    • The Yorkshire location
    • The Hampshire town
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Who will offer a partial refund to Australia's national administration over a expensive document that contained multiple mistakes, after confessing it employed AI technology to assist produce it?

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

12. Next up our recently added standard round, comparative with Liberace's ghost. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the spirit of the pianist would like to find out which of these people has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' awards?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. An academic (the correct scientific term) only discovered he'd won the prestigious prize in medicine when his wife switched her phone on after they had been on a digital detox in the American West wilderness. Which is his name?

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

14. Thursday challenge favorite The singer Swift has a new record out. What is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Exotic Animals of the Deep

15. And finally … a recent standard segment! On this day with The guitarist May! And his badger! Currently the Thursday quiz envisions the legendary Band musician wants to know about the Prague celestial clock. 9 October is generally regarded as the date of the first reference to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • The 13th century
    • The 15th century
    • The 17th century
    • 1810

Should you truly believe there has been an glaring error in one of the queries or answers – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you are not trying to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below.