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Midweek comes around and presents one more chance for you to test your awareness in our regular challenge. Have you been paying attention to the current events – especially the quirkier bits? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of boring in-jokes, and then share your result in the comments to let us know how you performed. Allons-y!

The Queries

1. The historic cathedral is welcoming its first female religious leader. Who?

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

2. The pontiff Leo has announced his first international tour. To which location is the pontiff traveling?

   • The African nation and Libya
   • The European country and the island
   • Turkey and the Middle Eastern country
   • Syldavia and its rival

3. Amazon Prime has changed promotional images on its online content platform after people complained it was doing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his pipe
   • Showing The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Showing The spy Bond without his firearm
   • Depicting Ron from Sparks without his moustache

4. Hilariously, the first Thursday challenge after the break asked who France's new prime minister was, and just a month later they have already been yeeted through the door labeled 'do one'. What France's Prime Minister has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron yet another problem?

   • Sébastien Lecornu
   • Gérald Darmanin
   • François Bayrou
   • Mr. Colbert

5. We lost Author Cooper, renowned for her 'bonkbuster' romance novels. Which of these two well-known ones was published first?

   • The competitive novel
   • The equestrian story

6. Talking of books, The organization America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most banned publication in the 2024-25 school session in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s The novel
   • Anthony Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's Carrie
   • Gary Barlow's The humorous title

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

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

8. The is The canine, the official pet of the Thursday challenge. She wants to know which famous children's character is suing the producers of the satirical show over their recent seeming depiction of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • The stringed puppet
   • The fox puppet
   • Paddington

9. This week's guest canine is Frank, who the midweek quiz encountered down the pub. Such a well-behaved dog. He wants to know what charitable effort Drew Scanlon, the person in the Blinking White Guy gif meme, has used his viral popularity to collect money for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • Cancer
   • The neurological disorder

10. 17 of David Hockney's iPad drawings are to be sold at auction. The drawings are of where?

    • The Cornish town
    • The Yorkshire location
    • The Hampshire town
    • Ledbury

11. Who will provide a partial refund to Australia's federal administration over a $440,000 report that included multiple mistakes, after confessing it used generative artificial intelligence to assist create it?

    • The consulting firm
    • The professional services company
    • KPMG
    • The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently introduced regular round, comparative with the entertainer's spirit. This week the midweek challenge envisions the ghost of the pianist would like to find out which of these individuals has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' medals?

    • Sergio Ramos
    • The forward Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • The singer Bush

13. An academic (the proper technical word) only found out he'd won the prestigious prize in medical science when his spouse switched her phone on after they had been on a digital break in the western US wilderness. Which is his name?

    • Jed Branscombe
    • Mr. Denshaw
    • Mr. Ramsdell
    • Bobson Dugnutt

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

    • Admissions of a Romance Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Creatures of the Deep

15. And finally … a recent regular round! On this day with Brian May! And his animal! Currently the Thursday challenge envisions the iconic Band musician wants to know about the Prague astronomical timepiece. 9 October is usually considered as the day of the first reference to the presence of the clock. However in which year?

    • The 13th century
    • The 15th century
    • The 17th century
    • The 19th century

If you truly believe there has been an egregious mistake in one of the questions or answers – and can show your working and are completely 100% certain you aren’t attempting to verify a humorous element – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.