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Midweek arrives and brings one more opportunity for you to challenge your knowledge in our weekly challenge. Have you been paying attention to the news – especially the quirkier bits? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of boring in-jokes, and then share your result in the feedback section to let us know how you got on. Let's go!

The Questions

1. Canterbury cathedral is welcoming its first female religious leader. Which person?

   • Ms. Connelly
   • Ms. Mullally
   • Ms. Bellamy
   • Ms. Holloway

2. The pontiff Leo has revealed his first international tour. To which location is the religious leader heading?

   • Egypt and its neighbor
   • Greece and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and Borduria

3. The streaming Prime has changed promotional images on its streaming video service after people objected it was performing what …

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting Indiana Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing James Bond without his gun
   • Depicting Ron from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Hilariously, the first midweek challenge after the break asked who the French new government leader was, and just a month later they have already been removed through the door labeled 'do one'. Which France's Prime Minister has just quit, giving President Macron one more problem?

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

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

   • The competitive novel
   • The equestrian story

6. Talking of books, PEN America’s Banned in the USA report found what was the most banned publication in the current academic year in the US?

   • Author Blume’s The novel
   • Author Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange
   • Author King's The horror story
   • Gary Barlow's The humorous title

7. During the Tory party conference, the Tories succeeded to give out a complimentary gift where the term 'Britain' was spelt wrong. Which item was the present?

   • A sweet bar
   • A small jar of sweet substance
   • A branded bottle of H2O
   • A extremely mischievous small dachshund

8. This is The canine, the official pet of the Thursday challenge. The dog wants to find out which well-known kids' character is suing the producers of the satirical show over their latest seeming portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • The fox puppet
   • Paddington

9. This week's guest canine is The pup, who the Thursday challenge met down the bar. What a good boy. He wants to know what charitable effort Drew Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy animation internet phenomenon, has utilized his online fame to raise funds for

   • HIV/Aids
   • Heart disease
   • Cancer
   • Multiple sclerosis

10. 17 of David Hockney's iPad artworks are to be auctioned at sale. The artworks are of where?

    • The Cornish town
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • The Herefordshire market town

11. Who will offer a limited refund to Australia's national administration over a $440,000 document that included multiple mistakes, after confessing it used generative artificial intelligence to assist produce it?

    • Deloitte
    • The professional services company
    • The audit firm
    • The fictional Cybernetics Corporation

12. And now our recently introduced standard segment, least or most with the entertainer's ghost. Currently the Thursday challenge envisions the ghost of Liberace would like to find out which of these people has the greatest number of European Champions League winners' awards?

    • The defender Ramos
    • Karim Benzema
    • The midfielder Modrić
    • Kate Bush

13. An academic (the proper technical term) only found out he'd won the Nobel award in medicine when his spouse switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology break in the American West backcountry. Which is his name?

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

14. Thursday challenge favorite Taylor Swift has a latest record out. What is it named?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Performer
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Unusual Creatures of the Deep

15. And finally … a new standard round! On this day with Brian May! Plus his badger! Currently the Thursday quiz imagines the legendary Queen guitarist wants to know about the Czech astronomical timepiece. October 9 is generally regarded as the day of the first mention to the existence of the timepiece. However in which date?

    • The 13th century
    • 1410
    • The 17th century
    • 1810

If you really do think there has been an egregious error in a single of the questions or responses – and can demonstrate your working and are completely 100% positive you aren’t trying to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below.