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Midweek comes around and presents another opportunity for you to challenge your awareness in our weekly challenge. Did you pay attention to the news – particularly the quirkier parts? Find out here, while also experiencing a series of boring in-jokes, and then post your score in the feedback section to let us know how you performed. Let's go!

The Questions

1. The historic church is welcoming its first woman archbishop. Who?

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

2. Pope Leo has revealed his first overseas tour. Where is the pontiff heading?

   • Egypt and Libya
   • The European country and the island
   • The transcontinental nation and Lebanon
   • The fictional country and Borduria

3. The streaming Prime has altered marketing pictures on its online content platform after people objected it was performing what …

   • Depicting The detective Holmes without his tobacco accessory
   • Depicting The adventurer Jones without his whip
   • Depicting The spy Bond without his gun
   • Depicting The musician from Sparks without his facial hair

4. Amusingly, the first Thursday challenge after the hiatus inquired who the French new prime minister was, and just four weeks later they have already been yeeted through the door labeled 'do one'. Which French PM has just quit, giving Emmanuel Macron yet another problem?

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

5. The world mourned Jilly Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' love novels. Which of these pair well-known ones was published first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

6. Speaking of books, PEN America’s Prohibited in the USA study found what was the most restricted book in the 2024-25 academic session in the US?

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

7. At the Tory party gathering, the Tories managed to distribute a free gift where the term 'Britain' was spelled wrong. What was the gift?

   • A sweet bar
   • A small jar of honey
   • A labeled bottle of H2O
   • A extremely naughty small dachshund

8. The is Willow, the official dog of the Thursday challenge. The dog wants to find out which well-known children's character is suing the producers of the satirical show over their latest apparent portrayal of it …

   • The cloth cat
   • Andy Pandy
   • Basil Brush
   • Paddington

9. The current visiting dog is The pup, who the Thursday challenge met down the bar. What a good boy. The dog would like to know what charitable effort Drew Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy animation meme, has used his online fame to raise funds for

   • The health condition
   • Heart disease
   • The disease
   • Multiple sclerosis

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

    • Padstow
    • Woldgate
    • The Hampshire town
    • Ledbury

11. Who will offer a partial reimbursement to Australia's federal administration over a expensive document that included several errors, after confessing it employed generative artificial intelligence to help produce it?

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

12. Next up our recently added regular round, comparative with Liberace's spirit. This week the midweek challenge envisions the spirit of Liberace would like to find out which of these individuals has the MOST Uefa Champions League winners' awards?

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

13. An academic (the proper scientific word) only found out he'd received the Nobel award in medical science when his wife turned her mobile on after they had been on a technology detox in the American West backcountry. What is his identity?

    • Mr. Branscombe
    • Grant Denshaw
    • Fred Ramsdell
    • Mr. Dugnutt

14. Midweek challenge favourite Taylor Swift has a new album out. Which title is it named?

    • Admissions of a Love Novelist
    • The Story of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Heartbreak
    • Unusual Animals of the Ocean

15. And finally … a recent regular round! Today in history with The guitarist May! Plus his animal! Currently the midweek quiz envisions the iconic Queen guitarist would like to know about the Prague celestial timepiece. 9 October is usually considered as the date of the first reference to the existence of the timepiece. But in which year?

    • 1210
    • The 15th century
    • The 17th century
    • 1810

Should you truly do think there has been an egregious mistake in one of the queries or answers – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t attempting to verify a humorous element – you can complain about it in the feedback section below.