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Midweek comes around and presents one more chance for you to challenge your awareness in our regular challenge. Did you pay heed to the current events – especially the quirkier bits? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of tedious in-jokes, and then post your result in the comments to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!

The Questions

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

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

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

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

3. The streaming Prime has changed marketing images on its online content platform after people complained it was doing what …

   • Depicting Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his whip
   • Depicting The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Hilariously, the first Thursday quiz after the hiatus inquired who the French new government leader was, and just four weeks later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. What French Prime Minister has just resigned, giving President Macron one more problem?

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

5. The world mourned Author Cooper, famous for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. What of these two very famous ones came first?

   • The competitive novel
   • The equestrian story

6. Speaking of literature, The organization America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most banned book in the current academic year in the US?

   • Author Blume’s The novel
   • Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's The horror story
   • Singer Barlow's Massive Son

7. During the Tory party gathering, the Conservatives managed to give out a complimentary gift where the term 'Britain' was spelled wrong. What was the present?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A small jar of honey
   • A labeled container of H2O
   • A extremely naughty miniature dachshund

8. The is Willow, the designated dog of the Thursday quiz. She wants to know which famous children's figure is suing the makers of Spitting Image over their latest apparent depiction of it …

   • Bagpuss
   • The stringed puppet
   • The fox puppet
   • Paddington

9. The current visiting dog is The pup, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the bar. What a good boy. He wants to know what good cause Drew Scanlon, the person in the viral gif meme, has utilized his viral popularity to raise funds for

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

10. 17 of David Hockney's digital drawings are to be sold at sale. The artworks are of which location?

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • Gosport
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Which entity will offer a limited reimbursement to Australia's national administration over a $440,000 document that contained multiple errors, after admitting it employed generative artificial intelligence to help create it?

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

12. And now our lately introduced regular segment, comparative with the entertainer's spirit. This week the midweek quiz imagines the spirit of Liberace would like to find out which of these people has the MOST European Champions League victory medals?

    • The defender Ramos
    • The forward Benzema
    • Luka Modrić
    • Kate Bush

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

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

14. Thursday quiz favourite The singer Swift has a new record out. Which title is it called?

    • Admissions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Story of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Animals of the Deep

15. And finally … a new standard round! Today in history with Brian May! And his animal! Currently the midweek quiz imagines the legendary Band guitarist wants to learn about the Czech astronomical timepiece. 9 October is generally regarded as the date of the first mention to the existence of the clock. However in which year?

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

Should you really believe there has been an egregious mistake in one of the queries or responses – and can show your reasoning and are completely 100% certain you are not attempting to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the feedback section below.