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Train delays, minor quakes and very naughty dolphins – take the Thursday quiz

By Dann Neff
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The quiz master went to see Pulp at the weekend, and it was a wonderful sun-drenched nostalgic experience meeting up with old friends and old songs. That hasn’t really got anything to do with this week’s quiz, I just thought I’d mention it. Fifteen questions of various degrees of topicality and seriousness await you – including a science question that is actually really genuinely about science for a change. Let us know how you get on in the comments!

The Thursday quiz, No 115

  1. 1.LAY OF THE LAND: The Thursday quiz knows that earthquakes are no laughing matter, unless they are in the UK, when they are usually so small as to be hilarious. Which English county experienced a 3.3 magnitude quake last week, centred on the village of Tean? It may have even knocked over some garden furniture or a wheelie bin

    A wheelie bin

  2. 2.BARMY: The world’s oldest national printed newspaper is shutting down its print edition after a law change stopped requiring businesses to publish public announcements in it. Which paper?

    Typeset

  3. 3.WINGS: In Ukraine they’ve unearthed what is left of eight British second world war planes that were sent to the Soviet Union by Britain after Nazi Germany invaded the country in 1941. What type of planes?

    Royal Air Force

  4. 4.MAN WHOSE HEAD EXPANDED: The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) concluded that whose column for the Sun about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was discriminatory?

    Meghan, the Dutchess of Sussex

  5. 5.GET A HOTEL: Talking of complaints, New Zealand’s media watchdog has reprimanded public broadcaster TVNZ after it showed a nature documentary which included dolphins doing the do (not pictured). Roughly how many people complained about the aquatic sex antics being broadcast?

    Common Dolphin

  6. 6.DOG IS LIFE: Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz, isn’t travelling anywhere today. But she knows that last week lots of customers on London’s Elizabeth line didn’t travel either, because what had wandered on to the tracks?

    Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz

  7. 7.BOMBAST: Conservative intellectual heavyweight Lee Anderson faces a telling off from UK parliamentary authorities after doing what last week?

    Lee Anderson

  8. 8.WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2023: Australia is one of the co-hosts for this year’s Fifa Women’s World Cup, and this is the official mascot in the picture. Clearly not a kangaroo. But are kangaroos herbivores, carnivores or omnivores?

    Tazuni

  9. 9.WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2023: Spain will be at the World Cup, too. The country boasts – according to the Guinness World Records anyway – the world’s oldest restaurant. It is called Casa Botín. Where is it?

    White plate and silverware

  10. 10.THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE: Element number 11 is sodium which you probably mostly encounter as a constituent of salt. Which of these best describes what happens to the electrons when sodium and chlorine react to form sodium chloride?

    Elements

  11. 11.WHY ARE PEOPLE GRUDGEFULL: Which local council voted this week to explore the possibility of a different governance arrangement that might potentially lead to them returning to Nordic rule?

    Norway flags

  12. 12.NORTH OR SOUTH WITH THE POKÉMON MEOWTH: Which of these cities is the furthest north in France?

    Pokémon Meowth in a Walthamstow pub using Pokémon Go

  13. 13.HIT THE NORTH: Ant and Dec are to reboot Byker Grove as a new prime-time series aimed at kids and adults. But what is the new series going to be called?

    Ant and Dec in 1994

  14. 14.KICKER CONSPIRACY: Leyton Orient are still the champions of League Two in the English Football League, and the quiz master is still literally in this photo. Nigel Travis is one of the directors at Orient. But which sci-fi programme had a villain called Travis?

    Leyton Orient

  15. 15.QUIT IPHONE: Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is launching a new app in a bid to compete with the rapidly falling apart Twitter. What is Meta’s new app called?

    Twitter logo

If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, feel free to email [email protected], but remember the quiz master’s word is final and check out time is 11am.

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