Record feats, lawsuit grief and naming retired popes – take the Thursday quiz

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It's Thursday, and as soon as once more you end up working up that street, working up that hill, working up that constructing, and discovering that on the high awaits 15 questions on basic data and topical trivia, plagued by just a few jokes. There aren't any prizes, it's only for enjoyable, however tell us the way you get on within the feedback. And don’t neglect there are bonus factors accessible in case you can spot Physician Who references within the incorrect reply choices.

The Thursday quiz, No 59

1.THE SILVER SCREEN: Which high-grossing film of 2022 is being sued for copyright infringement by the household of Ehud Yonay, whose writing they declare impressed it?
2.AGE IS NO OBJECT: Kenichi Horie, 83, has turn into the oldest identified particular person to do what?
3.WHY THE LONG FACE?: Who (not pictured) gained the Epsom Derby on the weekend?
4.ART FOR ART'S SAKE: 71-year-old artist Antony Gormley has mentioned he's anticipating a passport to reach shortly for his citizenship of which nation, after deciding to use for one having being 'embarrassed about Brexit'?
5.ON THIS DAY-ISH: June is historically given because the month of the founding of town of Münich by Heinrich der Löwe. It was based on the banks of which German river?
6.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: Physics immediately. The acceleration of an object rising pace by 320 m/s in 16 seconds is what?
7.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It's Natalie Portman's birthday immediately. Completely satisfied birthday, Natalie! However the place was she born?
8.SWEET BABY CHEESES: Which of those choices is NOT a cheese originating from France?
9.FIBONACCI NUMBERS: First described in Indian arithmetic, and forming a sequence the place every quantity is the sum of the 2 previous ones, F₁₆ is 987. In AD 987 King Louis V died, ending the Carolingian Dynasty which had been based by Charlemagne when he grew to become the primary Holy Roman Emperor by which yr?
10.TWO WHEELS GOOD FOUR WHEELS BAD: Brazil's Ronaldo (not pictured) is enterprise a 450km bike journey which he mentioned he'd do if Valladolid bought promoted again to La Liga. Which well-known website of Spanish pilgrimage is he biking to?
11.ALLONS-Y: Wikivoyage lists 23 areas visited by fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Across the World in Eighty Days, none of them by sizzling air balloon. No 19 is Chicago, Illinois, US. Chicago hosted the primary ever televised debate between US presidential candidates. Who?
12.ART FOR ART'S SAKE (PART TWO): An artist (not pictured) restoring a well-known vacationer attraction (not pictured) has been accused of obscuring authentic particulars by – hilariously – placing within the faces of their buddies. What had been they restoring?
13.NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: Rumours are swirling that Pope Francis may step down. However what was the title taken by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, when he retired from the function in 2013?
14.MANET OR MONET: Who painted this?
15.REINFORCEMENTS: That is a 1974 Sparks tune the place they 'might use a powerful rear guard'. However that is not necessary proper now. A Pyrrhic victory will get its title from the decision of Pyrrhus of Epirus after he gained the Battle of Asculum. Who was he preventing?

  • In case you do assume there was an egregious error in one of many questions or solutions, please be at liberty to e-mail martin.belam@theguardian.com, however bear in mind, the quiz grasp’s phrase is all the time ultimate, and in case you begin complaining about the usage of historical Sumerian cubits in reply choices you'll not get far.

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