Rescue dogs, stolen goods and kids crashing cars – take the Thursday quiz

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Welcome once more to the Thursday quiz. A smattering of topical questions and a few basic data challenges await you. It's only for enjoyable and there are not any prizes, however tell us the way you get on within the feedback. There's a hidden reference to Physician Who in one of many incorrect reply choices, which is able to rating you a bonus level should you can spot it. Have enjoyable.

The Thursday quiz, No 54

1.BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: The US military has given again one thing it stole from the village of San Pietro close to Vicenza in northern Italy throughout the second world struggle. What was it?
2.NAUGHTY NAUGHTY VERY NAUGHTY: A uncommon copy of a 'depraved' 1631 Bible has been present in New Zealand. On account of an unlucky typographical error, which of the Ten Commandments has been mangled in it?
3.ORDER IN COURT: The decide within the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial was left quickly misplaced for phrases final week after the court docket was proven the pre-recorded deposition of a doorman who was doing what?
4.ON THIS DAY AND ALSO IN COURT: Alfred and Albert Stratton have been discovered responsible of homicide on 5 Might 1905. They have been the primary males in Britain to be convicted of homicide and executed on the premise of what sort of proof?
5.NOW THAT I OWN THE BBC: That may be a 1994 Sparks track the place they ponder 'What am I alleged to do with that factor?'. However that is not essential proper now. Who has secured the TV rights for the England's males's senior soccer group for the following two years?
6.BOY RACER: A four-year-old boy (not pictured) seems to have gotten into his mother and father' automobile after which crashed it into two parked vehicles earlier than being discovered wandering the road in his pyjamas wherein Dutch metropolis?
7.LASSIE COME HOME: In one other incident nearly tailored for the Thursday quiz, a three-legged canine with most cancers (not pictured) saved what in a Minnesota river drama?
8.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: That's sufficient silliness for one quiz. If a easy electrical circuit incorporates three resistors in collection of 4 ohms, 8 ohms and a pair of ohms in that order and nothing else, what's the complete resistance?
9.LITERATURE: Jose Eduardo Agualusa's 2012 novel A Common Concept of Oblivion relies on a real story a couple of Portuguese girl who partitions herself into her residence simply earlier than which African nation gained independence in 1975?
10.FIBONACCI NUMBERS: First described in Indian arithmetic, and forming a sequence the place every quantity is the sum of the 2 previous ones, F₁₁ is 89. It was in 89BC that Cicero ended his service within the Roman military. However what was Cicero's full title?
11.CITIES IN DISGUISE: Which Scandinavian metropolis has beforehand been often called Ánslo, Christiania and Kristiania?
12.WHY THE LONG FACE?: What was the Scottish title of Merida's devoted horse companion (not pictured) within the 2012 Disney/Pixar film Courageous?
13.ALLONS-Y: The web site Wiki Voyage lists 23 places visited by the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's novel Across the World in Eighty Days. No 14 is San Francisco, however when did building begin on the Golden Gate bridge?
14.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It's Henry Cavill's birthday at present. Completely satisfied birthday, Henry. However what's the title of the character he performs in The Witcher?
15.MUSIC: Ric Parnell, the drummer within the film This Is Spinal Faucet, has sadly handed away. Which 1981 hit single did he play on?

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