Brand new animals, awkward moments and dreadful movie awards – take the Thursday quiz

This is Rhett, waiting to appear at Crufts. What a good boy. We wonder how he will get on with the quiz? Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

The quiz master has taken a few moments out from merrily riding around on London’s new Superloop buses to write another set of questions to test your knowledge of topical news, general knowledge, obscure quirky things only he cares about and GCSE electronics for some reason. There are some jokes, which may make you laugh, but there are no prizes on offer, except self-satisfaction. And also this week there are 17 questions. Why? Just because. Let us know how you get on in the comments!

The Thursday quiz, No 151

1. 

   Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance narrowly won the snap general election in the country at the weekend. Who is the leader expected to form the new government (pictured)?

   1. Luís San Theodoros

   2. Luís Montenegro

   3. Luís Moldova

   4. Luís Syldavia

2. 

   Theresa May, the former UK prime minister and the home secretary behind the "hostile environment" immigration policy, is stepping down as an MP. When was she first elected to parliament?

   1. 1992

   2. 1997

   3. 2001

   4. 2005

3. 

   Scientists have been arguing for donkey's years about whether to declare a new official geological epoch showing human influence on the environment, which would possibly start in 1952, marking the worldwide fallout of plutonium from nuclear weapons’ tests. What would it be called?

   1. Nestene

   2. Holocene

   3. Terreneuvian

   4. Anthropocene

4. 

   We lost the influential Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama (pictured), who died aged 68. Which of these famous series did he create?

   1. Pokémon

   2. Digimon

   3. Jujutsu Kaisen

   4. Dragon Ball

5. 

   A Brisbane school has been criticised for acting “in poor taste” after posting images of which activity that it held on International Women’s Day?

   1. A sandwich-making event

   2. A book-burning event

   3. A nappy-changing event

   4. A pole-dancing event

6. 

   An internationally important collection of what, including specimens from Captain Cook’s final voyage, has been rediscovered 40 years after it was thought to have been thrown into a skip?

   1. Shells

   2. Bird eggs

   3. Stamps

   4. Coins

7. 

   What have been delighting Toronto after they moved in for first time in the city’s recorded history?

   1. A pair of bald eagles

   2. A gaze of lynxes

   3. A clique of racoons

   4. 30-50 feral hogs

8. 

   Every fan of Sapphire & Steel knows "all irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life." Silver (pictured, as coins) can be assigned. How much (roughly) would you pay for an ounce of silver this week?

   1. $0.25 per ounce

   2. $2.50 per ounce

   3. $25.0 per ounce

   4. $250 per ounce

9. 

   You've always wanted to pass GCSE electronics, right? Try this one. A projection lamp is running on a 36V supply and takes 11A. What is its power?

   1. 3.27W

   2. 47W

   3. 396W

   4. 1,057W

10. 

    One question about every country taking part in the Euro 2024 finals this summer. This week: the Netherlands. Which of these is actually the name of a town in the Netherlands?

    1. Monster

    2. Beast

    3. Brute

    4. Dalek

11. 

    According to reports, what has become the most shoplifted item (not pictured) in Spain?

    1. Baby formula

    2. Olive oil

    3. Tomato passata

    4. Very naughty miniature dachshunds

12. 

    We expect you to put the first four studio albums by the US rock band the Eagles into the correct order. Do it.

    1. Eagles, Desperado, On the Border, One of These Nights

    2. Eagles, Desperado, On the Border, Hotel California

    3. Eagles, On the Border, One of These Nights, Hotel California

    4. Eagles, On the Border, The Long Run, Hell Freezes Over

13. 

    This is Willow, the official dog of the Thursday quiz. Here she is thinking about how mortifying it was that a singer recently admonished someone for not getting up and dancing during their show, only to realise they were talking to a wheelchair user. Who?

    1. Katy Perry

    2. Taylor Swift

    3. Madonna

    4. P!nk

14. 

    Never mind the Oscars, which film won worst picture at the 44th Golden Raspberry Awards or Razzies?

    1. Magic Mike's Last Dance

    2. Five Nights at Freddy's

    3. The Pope's Exorcist

    4. Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey

15. 

    Lee Anderson has defected from the Conservative party that he joined after defecting from Labour. He now represents the Reform UK party instead. What did Anderson call his new leader, Richard Tice, in January?

    1. A bargain basement Rees-Mogg

    2. A pound shop Nigel Farage

    3. A poor man's Margaret Thatcher

    4. A second rate Ron from Sparks

16. 

    BONUS LEE ANDERSON QUESTION: Lee Anderson has ruled out standing down and triggering a by-election after changing party. In September 2020, did he vote for the Recall of MPs (Change of Party Affiliation) Bill, which would have introduced such a requirement?

    1. No, because that would mean he was a massive hyprocite

    2. Of course he did

17. 

    BONUS THE LAST DINNER PARTY QUESTION: Increasing the possibility that The Last Dinner Party have been designed by committee purely to extract cash from the quiz master's wallet, last week they performed a cover version of a Thursday quiz favourite on the Jo Wiley show. Which song did they cover?

    1. Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

    2. Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) by Kate Bush

    3. Totally Wired by The Fall

    4. This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us by Sparks

    5. One Very Naughty Miniature Dachshund by The 30-50 Feral Hogs

Solutions

1:B - He has been president of the Social Democratic party since July 2022, 2:B - She has been an MP for 27 years, spending a mere three of them as prime minister fighting every day with her own party about how to square the circle of their contradictory Brexit deal demands. Which is still a lot longer than Liz Truss was prime minister. We made you think about her again, didn't we?, 3:D - As immortalised in a track on the latest OMD album, but opponents argue that pinpointing the start of the human age to a particular date fails to recognise the long history of anthropogenic changes, through farming for example, 4:D - Dragon Ball was serialised in 519 chapters in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1984 to 1995 and birthed a blockbuster franchise including an English-language comic book series, five distinct television adaptations and spinoffs, more than 20 films and a vast array of video games, 5:C - A spokesperson for the department said the day focused on topics “such as closing the gender pay gap, challenging gender stereotypes and the path to achieving gender equality", adding "the activity in question was designed by the year 9 student cohort and welcomed all students to participate and challenge gender stereotypes". But a student from the school complained that male peers had taken the display as an excuse for sexist behaviour. “It’s just so dumb and a bit kind of hurtful,” they said., 6:A - Collected by Bridget Atkinson, they were thought lost for ever in the 1980s during an office relocation, but were rescued from a skip and then rediscovered in a house clearance, 7:A - The pair have nested after being spotted over the city displaying "mating behaviour", if you know what we mean, 8:C - According to Forbes, the 52-week silver price high is about $26, while the 52-week silver price low is about $22. David Collings played Silver on screen in Sapphire & Steel, and you can all have him as a bonus Doctor Who reference too, as he brilliantly played three separate characters in three separate Doctor Who stories in the 1970s and 80s, 9:C - Electric power expresses the rate at which a device is converting energy from one form into another, so you multiply the volts by the amps to get the power. Well done if you picked this option – you've got one point towards your fictitious electronics GCSE, 10:A - In the Dutch province of South Holland and about 6.2 miles (10km) south-west of The Hague, the village of Monster has a population of about 11,580. What's that coming over the hill?, 11:B - Shortages have been happening across the Mediterranean after extreme weather damaged the harvests for a second year, and the product is being targeted by gangs hoping to resell the oil on the hidden market, 12:A - Their signature Hotel California album was actually their fifth release. All of their first four albums received platinum awards in the US. Hell Freezes Over was a live album in the 90s, named after the fact that Don Henley once said the band would only ever get together "when hell freezes over". The picture, as ever, is Reckless Records where the quiz master used to work a long, long time ago, 13:C - Upon realising her mistake, she said: “Oh, OK. Politically incorrect, sorry about that. I’m glad you’re here." The quiz master recently enjoyed watching a couple of people in front of him get into a fist fight about standing up in the seated section at a Depeche Mode concert only for the people objecting to the standing up, having got the people standing up pulled out of the crowd by stewards, to immediately get to their feet as soon as Walking In My Shoes started one song later. 10/10, no notes, 14:D - It seems inexplicable how it even exists, and Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey swept the five categories for which it was nominated, including worst picture, director, screenplay, screen couple and remake/rip-off/sequel , 15:B - Well, it is good to have principles, isn't it?, 16:B - Principles again, you see …, 17:D - Yes, they performed the Sparks classic, which was a hit for Ron and Russell and the other three in 1974, a mere 25 years or so before any of The Last Dinner Party Were Born, a bit like if the Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1963 were doing cover versions of songs that had been hits in 1913. The quiz is feeling its age this week

Scores

1. 0 and above.

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