Glamorous sculptures, champion cheeses and the secret of Uranus – take the Thursday quiz

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Thursday once more so quickly. Forward of you 15 questions on topical trivia, basic data, and barely random issues that the quizmaster remembers from the Nineties. Or was it the Nineteen Eighties? Anyway, you realize the drill by now: there’s Kate Bush and Ron from Sparks and bonus factors within the feedback for any hidden Physician Who references you possibly can spot – there are at the very least three this week. There aren't any prizes, it's only for enjoyable. Tell us the way you get on the feedback.

The Thursday quiz, No 46

1.BOWLER OF THE CENTURY: The Thursday quiz needs to start out by paying tribute to one of many best cricketers of all time, Shane Warne. His household have accepted the supply of a state funeral from which Australian state, the place he was born?
2.SO FILL UP YOUR GLASSES AND JOIN IN THE SONG: We additionally misplaced the beautiful Lynda Baron this week. She was in three separate Physician Who tales between 1966 and 2011 – however what was the identify of the character she performed within the kids’s present Come Outdoors between 1993 and 1997?
3.FUNNY FACE: That’s a 1981 Sparks music the place they “regarded rather a lot like a Vogue journal”, however that’s not essential proper now. Which British TV comedy present is launching its personal worldwide streaming platform?
4.SWEET BABY CHEESES: The World Championship Cheese Contest takes place every year in Wisconsin – famed for its cheeses, I suppose. Anyway, which kind of Swiss cheese has gained it for the second consecutive time?
5.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It's the great Neneh Cherry’s birthday as we speak. Joyful birthday, Neneh! What was her massively profitable and sensible debut album referred to as?
6.ON THIS DAY: It is usually the quizmaster’s mum’s birthday as we speak. Joyful birthday mum! She’s 75 you realize! However it is usually the anniversary of the primary profitable phone take a look at by Alexander Graham Bell. What was the very first thing he mentioned?
7.ALSO ON THIS DAY BUT IN SPACE: In 1977 astronomers introduced the invention of rings round Uranus. I do know. I do know. What number of rings round Uranus do astronomers at present say there are?
8.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: Mosquitos can go malarial parasites to people. The little scumbags. What identify is given to an organism that transmits a illness?
9.LITERATURE: Which of Iris Murdoch’s books gained the Booker Prize in 1978?
10.SCULPTURE OF A GODDESS Swindon boasts a sculpture path that features works by Hideo Furuta and Jon Buck. However which glamorous film and TV star from the city is well known with a statue outdoors a multiplex cinema at Shaw Ridge leisure park? It isn’t the statue within the image by the best way.
11.WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD: The Nationwide Portrait Gallery has acquired its first painted self-portrait by a black feminine artist, Everlyn Nicodemus’s Självporträtt, Åkersberga. How lengthy, for the reason that assortment was first based, has it taken for that to occur?
12.PLUMBER, BUT: 10 March is well known by some individuals as Mario day, as for those who have a look at the date Mar 10 and squint actually laborious it type of seems to be prefer it spells Mario. It's no “Might the fourth be with you”, that’s for certain. However what was the early Nineteen Eighties Nintendo sport the place Mario was unusually forged because the villain?
13.ALLONS-Y: The web site Wikivoyage lists 23 areas visited by the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Vernes’ novel Across the World in 80 Days. No 6 is Aden, Yemen. However what's the identify of the traditional development used to channel rainwater into consuming water for town?
14.FIBONACCI NUMBERS: First described in Indian arithmetic, and forming a sequence the place every quantity is the sum of the 2 previous ones, F₃ is 2. However which of those statements is true in regards to the quantity two?
15.MUSIC: Which of those acts had a massively profitable album with It Takes a Nation of Hundreds of thousands to Maintain Us Again?

  • In case you do suppose there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions, please be at liberty to e-mail martin.belam@theguardian.com however keep in mind, the quizmaster’s phrase is at all times last, and he's in all probability too busy protecting the Winter Paralympics in the intervening time to learn his e-mail anyway.

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