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Thursday news quiz: a PM’s nose, a pop star’s clothes, and a kitten with too many toes | Life and style

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Every now and then the Thursday quiz gets involved in a flap, as it did last week with “birb”-gate. After a sustained campaign lasting at least two weeks, subeditors finally relented and allowed the quiz to call our feathered friends “birbs” – only for half the comment section to revolt against the indignity of modern internet parlance. Still, that is nothing compared with the time a reader complained that the quiz using the phrase “baby cows” was unbecoming of a broadsheet newspaper. Anyway, 15 questions on news, general knowledge and obscure trivia await, and no “birbs” were harmed in the process. Allons-y!

The Thursday news quiz, No 262

  1. 1.Singer. Songwriter. Philanthropist. Icon. We lost Dolly Parton. Which song did she famously also write on the same day that she wrote Jolene?

    Dolly Parton

  2. 2.Who is having an exhibition at the V&A dedicated to them, titled Splendid Things?

    V&A in Kensington

  3. 3.Organisers of the Sydney Marathon admitted an ‘unfortunate error’ on the finisher’s participation medal. What wrong landmark was mistakenly etched on to the design?

    Sydney Marathon

  4. 4.Stage three of the Vuelta a España had to be abandoned in the French Pyrenees with 15km remaining. What caused race organisers to stop the stage?

    La Vuelta a España

  5. 5.Which leader hit back on Instagram after a cosmetic surgeon offered to ‘fix’ her appearance on her return from Ukraine?

    A facial lifting procedure

  6. 6.A UK-settled woman was left stranded at an airport in Spain because the Home Office eVisa system suffered a technical glitch. What was the cause of the mix-up?

    UK passport

  7. 7.First Bus is introducing a ban for under-16s travelling without an adult after 6pm following a wave of antisocial behaviour. Where?

    A bus

  8. 8.It is Glen Matlock’s birthday today. Happy birthday Glen! Anarchy! Don’t feel pretty vacant today! Which instrument did/does he play in the Sex Pistols?

    Glen Matlock

  9. 9.A recent Star Trek episode saw some of the characters replaced by muppets due to a transporter malfunction. In which series?

    Star Trek muppet

  10. 10.This week’s guest canine is Slinky, who the Thursday quiz met in Gosport when Slinky was very very sleepy. Slinky knows a man was reprimanded after leaving his also sleepy seven-year-old son on the side of a mountain with some snacks and a soft drink while he carried on climbing up it. Where?

    Slinky at the Anglesey Hotel in Gosport

  11. 11.In a completely unworrying development, a humanoid robot (pictured) broke Usain Bolt’s 100m sprint world record by running it in 9.32 seconds at a test event in Beijing. What is its name?

    Robot

  12. 12.A Maine Coon kitten from Wisconsin (not pictured) has broken a 24-year-old world record for ‘the most toes on a cat’. They really will make a record out of anything these days, eh? Anyway, how many toes is the new record?

    A cat

  13. 13.Japan enlisted 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep to a new spot using ropes and rollers. Why?

    Hirosaki Castle

  14. 14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 27 August is the anniversary of the most significant eruption of Krakatoa, destroying over 70% of the island and its surrounding archipelago. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen’s legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – in which year …

    Queen guitarist Brian May and Bill the Badger

  15. 15.And finally … a 15ft reticulated python at Chester Zoo (pictured) made history by becoming the first snake to undergo electrochemotherapy to treat a jaw tumour. Who is the python named after?

    Snake receives human cancer treatment

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 Terrible Years by Desperate Journalist instead?

Terrible Years by Desperate Journalist

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