Ruby slippers, Ruby Tuesday and a ruby anniversary – take the Thursday quiz

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It's a very particular themed model of the Thursday quiz as we speak, as a result of fairly unbelievably it's the fortieth version – and it's but to be shut down. The duty forward of you is 15 questions on topical information, basic data, and varied different gubbins that has caught the quizmaster’s eye this week, a lot of them mentioning rubies or the quantity 40. Thrilling, huh? There may be additionally the well timed return of 1 explicit query class which is certain to show massively standard. There aren't any prizes. It's only for enjoyable. Do tell us the way you get on within the feedback!

The Thursday quiz, No 40

1.WHAT A GOOD GIRL: Admit it, as quickly as you noticed this story on the Guardian web site, you knew it was a shoo-in for the Thursday quiz. Millie – pictured right here posed by a inventory picture stand-in – was rescued from harmful mudflats in Havant, Hampshire by attaching what to a drone?
2.I WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR LOVE: The almighty and extremely best-selling Bat Out of Hell rock singer Meat Loaf departed this earth final week. However what was his actual identify?
3.THAT'S NOT HOW IT GOES: Chinese language authorities seem to have modified the ending to which traditional 1999 film on streaming platform Tencent Video?
4.MASTER OF ILLUSION: Canadian photographer Simone Engels was surprised when she appeared to see what floating within the sea off Vancouver Island?
5.ALL YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IS SEX: That could be a 1983 Sparks tune the place they give thought to the locations we have had our little enjoyable. However that is not essential proper now. The normal knob-throwing contest has needed to be cancelled for the third-year operating during which English county?
6.KISS LIKE ETHER: Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty has been formally cleared of obscenity fees relationship from when which Hollywood actor publicly kissed her at an Aids consciousness occasion 15 years in the past?
7.RUBY SLIPPERS: Within the film The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy must click on her ruby slippers to get dwelling. What are they manufactured from in L Frank Baum's authentic 1900 novel The Fantastic Wizard of Oz?
8.RUBY TUESDAY: Is without doubt one of the Rolling Stones all time biggest tunes, however which album did it first seem on within the UK? Warning pedants – it was a unique album to the one it appeared on within the US, and we would like the UK reply!
9.SCIENCE CORNER: A ruby is a crystalline type of which mineral manufactured from aluminium oxide?
10.COMEDY CORNER: Ruby Wax was born in Evanston, Illinois and is totally hilarious. However what was her surname at delivery?
11.MUSIC: Who had the UK No 1 single 40 years in the past as we speak on 27 January 1982?
12.ENSEMBLE CASTS: Having not too long ago celebrated its fortieth anniversay, which traditional British sitcom featured Lennard Pearce, Roger Lloyd-Pack and Nicholas Lyndhurst amongst its common forged?
13.WHO AM I? I am a 40-year-old California-born actor who has discovered fame in films concerning the band Queen and as a James Bond villain. I additionally appeared in Mr Robotic. Who am I?
14.THAT'S COLD EITHER WAY: True or false – the temperature -40C is similar temperature as -40F?
15.GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL: The Pokémon class is again as a result of overwhelming standard demand. There is a new Pokémon sport out tomorrow for the Nintendo Change. What's it referred to as?

When you do suppose there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions, please be happy to e mail martin.belam@theguardian.com however keep in mind, the quizmaster’s phrase is all the time remaining, and by no means ever prise the rubies out of the eyes of a statue when enjoying Dungeons & Dragons – it's all the time a lure!

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