Thursday news quiz: graveyards, Grammys and Muppet Show guests

1. 

   Italy has been agog after it turned out the restoration of a painting in the Basilica of St Lawrence in Lucina (not pictured, that is a different church) has left it with a cherub looking uncannily like …

   1. Silvio Berlusconi

   2. Totò Schillaci

   3. Sophia Loren

   4. Giorgia Meloni

2. 

   The Greens have selected Hannah Spencer to run in the Gorton and Denton byelection. What is her trade?

   1. Electrician

   2. Carpenter

   3. Plumber

   4. Toolmaker

3. 

   A record harvest has sparked a mass giveaway of what in Berlin?

   1. Potatoes

   2. Turnips

   3. Carrots

   4. Feral hogs

4. 

   Talking of record harvests – see what we did there? – who became the most-awarded rapper in Grammy history at the weekend?

   1. Pharrell Williams

   2. Kanye West

   3. Eminem

   4. Kendrick Lamar

5. 

   Historical art boffins (the correct technical term) have decided that the famous Hever 'Rose' portrait of Anne Boleyn (not pictured, that's her husband) was posed very specifically to debunk a specific claim about her. It shows that …

   1. Anne did not have a birthmark on her neck

   2. Anne did not have six fingers on one hand

   3. Anne did not have a squint

   4. Anne did not have a Leyton Orient tattoo

6. 

   The mayor of Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, got a bit huffy after someone tried to raise a US flag there. Who?

   1. An Italian YouTuber

   2. A Canadian prankster

   3. A German comedian

   4. Donald Trump Jr

7. 

   This week's guest canine is Reggie again, because the Thursday quiz keeps approaching him and his owner forgetting that they've already met. The restraining order is probably in the post. He wants to know who has been cast as Joni Mitchell in a forthcoming biopic of the singer-songwriter directed by Cameron Crowe.

   1. Meryl Streep

   2. Cate Blanchett

   3. Glenn Close

   4. Rosy McEwen

8. 

   The Spanish figure skater Tomàs-Llorenç Guarino Sabaté had a last-minute panic after a copyright dispute threatened to block him from using music from which franchise at the Winter Olympics?

   1. Shrek

   2. Star Wars

   3. The Minions

   4. Frozen

9. 

   What is the name of the cartoon lump of coal, complete with giant eyes and yellow mining garb, being used by the Trump administration to promote fossil fuel exploitation?

   1. Coalbert

   2. Coalie

   3. Coalbonella

   4. Derek

10. 

    The Marsh Family, Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen (pictured) have all released recent protest songs about the Trump administration's actions in Minnesota. What is Springsteen's song called?

    1. Streets of Minneapolis

    2. Darkness on the Edge of Minneapolis

    3. Born to Minneapolis

    4. Minneapolis Freeze-Out

11. 

    Who (pictured) won the women's singles at the Australian Open tennis?

    1. Perpugilliam Brown

    2. Aryna Sabalenka

    3. Iga Świątek

    4. Elena Rybakina

12. 

    Which of these pop goddesses is special guest in The Muppet Show 50th anniversary special?

    1. Katy Perry

    2. Sabrina Carpenter

    3. Lady Gaga

    4. Christina Aguilera

13. 

    Here is Fuecoco at Blackfriars station in London. Tell him where the first Pokémon theme park has opened …

    1. Osaka

    2. Kyoto

    3. Sapporo

    4. Tokyo

14. 

    What weird thing happened at the tomb of the philosopher David Hume at a historic cemetery in Edinburgh (not pictured)?

    1. A family of hedgehogs moved in

    2. Somebody left a bowl of bananas outside it

    3. It was daubed with apparent occult symbols

    4. Someone left handwritten philosophical questions on Post-it notes

15. 

    And finally, in the spirit of the illustration, which word did Donald Trump invent?

    1. Cofveve

    2. Covfefe

    3. Cofvefe

    4. Covfeve

Solutions

1:D - Meloni responded on social media: 'No, I definitely do not look like an angel' and added a laughing emoji, 2:C - She is also a local councillor, 3:A - Named the Kartoffel-Flut or potato flood after the highest yield in 25 years, the bumper crop has inspired one farmer to organise potato dumps at various locations in Berlin, with appeals going out around the German capital for people to come and pick them up for free, 4:D - He now has 27 of the things, eclipsing Jay-Z, 5:B - The claim was associated with witchcraft, and designed to delegitimise her daughter Elizabeth I, 6:C - You can insert your own punchline, 7:A - That's what the reports say …, 8:C - It does sound like the rights holders might have been doing everybody else a favour, 9:B - The Thursday quiz will sit this one out, 10:A - The single went straight to No 1 in the US, 11:D - She beat Aryna Sabalenka in the final, 12:B - It was Sabrina. Seth Rogen - also executive producer – and Maya Rudolph also got their fizzogs in on the act, 13:D - PokéPark Kanto is a walkable forest with more than 600 Pokémon in it, and the Thursday quiz wants to go, 14:C - Eeeeesh!, 15:B - Six minutes after midnight on 31 May 2017, Trump tweeted 'Despite the constant negative press covfefe' and the rest is internet history

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