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Thursday has come around again, and it’s time to find out whether you’re sharp, alert and on top of the news – or still staring into the coffee of mystery wondering what on earth happened this week. Fifteen questions on the week’s headlines, pop culture and general knowledge await. There are no prizes, but we always love hearing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 233
- 1.Italy has been agog after it turned out the restoration of a painting in the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina (not pictured, that is a different church) has left it with a cherub looking uncannily like …
- 2.The Greens have selected Hannah Spencer to run in the Gorton and Denton byelection. What is her trade?
- 3.A record harvest has sparked a mass giveaway of what in Berlin?
- 4.Talking of record harvests – see what we did there? – who became the most-awarded rapper in Grammy history at the weekend?
- 5.Historical art boffins (the correct technical term) have decided that the famous Hever 'Rose' portrait of Anne Boleyn (not pictured, that's her husband) was posed very specifically to debunk a specific claim about her. It shows that …
- 6.The mayor of Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, got a bit huffy after someone tried to raise a US flag there. Who?
- 7.This week's guest canine is Reggie again, because the Thursday quiz keeps approaching him and his owner forgetting that they've already met. The restraining order is probably in the post. He wants to know who has been cast as Joni Mitchell in a forthcoming biopic of the singer-songwriter directed by Cameron Crowe.
- 8.The Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté had a last-minute panic after a copyright dispute threatened to block him from using music from which franchise at the Winter Olympics?
- 9.What is the name of the cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, being used by the Trump administration to promote fossil fuel exploitation?
- 10.The Marsh Family, Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen (pictured) have all released recent protest songs about the Trump administration's actions in Minnesota. What is Springsteen's song called?
- 11.Who (pictured) won the women's singles at the Australian Open tennis?
- 12.Which of these pop goddesses is special guest in The Muppet Show 50th anniversary special?
- 13.Here is Fuecoco at Blackfriars station in London. Tell him where the first Pokémon theme park has opened …
- 14.What weird thing happened at the tomb of the philosopher David Hume at a historic cemetery in Edinburgh (not pictured)?
- 15.And finally, in the spirit of the illustration, which word did Donald Trump invent?
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 Boyface by PVA instead?
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