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Midweek arrives and brings one more chance for you to challenge your knowledge in our regular challenge. Did you pay attention to the news – particularly the quirkier parts? Find out here, while also enduring a series of boring in-jokes, and then share your result in the comments to let us know how you got on. Allons-y!

The Queries

1. The historic cathedral is welcoming its first woman religious leader. Which person?

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

2. The pontiff Leo has revealed his first overseas tour. Where is the religious leader traveling?

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

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

   • Showing Sherlock Holmes without his pipe
   • Showing Indiana Jones without his leather tool
   • Showing James Bond without his firearm
   • Showing Ron from Sparks without his moustache

4. Amusingly, the first midweek challenge after the hiatus asked who the French new government leader was, and just a month later they have already been yeeted through the door marked 'do one'. Which France's PM has just quit, giving President Macron yet another headache?

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

5. The world mourned Author Cooper, famous for her 'romantic' romance novels. Which of these two well-known titles was published first?

   • The competitive novel
   • Riders

6. Speaking of books, PEN America’s Prohibited in the USA report found what was the most restricted publication in the current school year in the US?

   • Judy Blume’s Forever
   • Anthony Burgess’s The dystopian book
   • Stephen King's The horror story
   • Gary Barlow's Massive Son

7. During the Tory party gathering, the Tories succeeded to distribute a complimentary present where the word 'Britain' was spelt wrong. Which item was the gift?

   • A chocolate bar
   • A tiny container of honey
   • A labeled container of H2O
   • A very mischievous miniature dachshund

8. This is The canine, the designated pet of the midweek quiz. She would like to know which famous kids' figure is taking legal action against the producers of Spitting Image over their recent apparent depiction of it …

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

9. The current visiting canine is Frank, who the Thursday quiz encountered down the bar. Such a well-behaved dog. He would like to find out what charitable effort The individual Scanlon, the man in the Blinking White Guy gif internet phenomenon, has utilized his online popularity to collect money for

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

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

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

11. Which entity will provide a partial refund to Australia's federal government over a expensive document that contained several errors, after admitting it used AI technology to help create it?

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

12. Next up our lately added standard round, least or most with the entertainer's spirit. Currently the midweek quiz imagines the spirit of the pianist would like to know which of these individuals has the greatest number of European Champions League winners' awards?

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

13. An academic (the proper technical term) only discovered he'd received the prestigious prize in medical science when his wife switched her mobile on after they had been on a technology detox in the western US backcountry. What is his name?

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

14. Thursday quiz favourite Taylor Swift has a latest album out. Which title is it named?

    • Confessions of a Love Novelist
    • The Life of a Showgirl
    • The Curriculum of Romantic sorrow
    • Unusual Creatures of the Ocean

15. Lastly … a recent regular segment! Today in history with Brian May! Plus his animal! This week the midweek quiz imagines the iconic Queen musician wants to know about the Prague celestial timepiece. October 9 is generally considered as the day of the first reference to the presence of the clock. However in which date?

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

Should you really believe there has been an glaring mistake in one of the questions or answers – and can demonstrate your working and are completely 100% positive you are not trying to verify a joke – you can raise an issue about it in the feedback section below.