Thursday news quiz: security scrapes, sordid statues and feral ferrets | Life and style

Welcome once again to the Thursday quiz. There are no prizes but plenty of opportunities to discover which of your firmly held opinions are, on closer inspection, just question marks in disguise. Fifteen questions await you, covering topical news, popular culture and general knowledge, and surprisingly not one of them is about that possum found among the toys at an airport. Let us know how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!

The Thursday news quiz, No 240

1.What was the UK’s most popular attraction last year, with 7.1 million visitors?
2.Argos has ignited a debate among parents and child development campaigners after promoting what?
3.Niche even for the Thursday quiz, which pop goddess has got into a social media set-to with *checks notes* former Arsenal and Chelsea footballer Jorginho after he claimed her security made his stepdaughter cry?
4.Predatory feral ferrets have been removed from an island for the first time ever. Where?
5.Josh Wardle, who had a hit with Wordle, has a new game out. What is it called?
6.Rejected in 1887 amid fears it mocked Kaiser Wilhelm I, the painting Mors Imperator (Death is the Ruler), which depicts a hulking skeleton wrapped in a cloak with ermine fur and wearing a jagged iron crown (not pictured, that is just any old painting) is now finally on show in Berlin. Who painted it?
7.It would have been Leonard Nimoy’s 95th birthday today. Happy heavenly birthday, Leonard. Highly illogical, Captain! What planet did his Star Trek character Spock hail from?
8.This week’s guest canine is Mr Foxy of Walthamstow again. He wants to know who has been announced as writing the forthcoming 1,057th entry in the franchise, Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past?
9.Farther or nearer with Geordie Alan Shearer! This week we imagine the England soccer legend wants to know, if he leaves his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne, which is farther or nearer – Washington DC, US, or Tehran, Iran?
10.Danone has spent a cool €1bn on buying which Idris Elba-backed protein food brand?
11.Which football club allowed their stadium to be used as the backdrop for a Nigel Farage and Reform UK social media video this week – Farage famously being a man who said “keep politics out of football” in 2021?
12.Donald Trump has erected a statue of who at the White House?
13.The Thursday quiz fondly remembers Keith Chegwin, so here is Cheggers plays population! Which of these countries has the biggest population: Venezuela, Ecuador or Bolivia?
14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 26 March is the anniversary of the introduction of the UK driving test. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen’s legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – in which year …
15.And finally … people are questioning the abilities of a bank robber (definitely not pictured – Thursday quiz lawyer) who has hit six banks in the space of five days and managed to steal only $605/£450/€520. Where?

If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t attempting to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below. Why not watch Daniel by Modern Woman instead?

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