Melting, Musk and a hate magnet: it's the Friday news quiz

This guy features in the questions. Photograph: Julio Asuncion/AP

If you are worrying about how to fill the time on the first day without World Cup football for what seems like an age, why not test yourself with our news quiz? On the other hand, if you’ve been avoiding the football, don’t worry, there are no questions about it.

No prizes, just the opportunity to brag in the comments.

The Guardian weekly news quiz

1. Which sea creature population has recovered from a mass mortality event that caused millions of them to die of a 'melting disease'?

   1. Lobsters

   2. Angelfish

   3. Starfish

   4. Crayfish

2. Talking of melting, which gloomy 80s artist curated this year's Meltdown festival, which finished on Monday?

   1. 

      Siouxsie Sioux

   2. 

      Robert Smith

   3. 

      Terry Hall

   4. 

      Kate Bush

3. Which former sitcom star said this week that their social media postings had made them "a hate magnet"?

   1. John Cleese

   2. Su Pollard

   3. Ricky Gervais

   4. Roseanne Barr

4. An image of what bird on a 13th-century Vatican manuscript has caused academics to rethink the history of trade routes?

   1. Cockatoo

   2. Ibis

   3. Flamingo

   4. Pelican

5. Donald Trump joked that which film director's career was over after he was quoted appearing to back the US president?

   1. Woody Allen

   2. Quentin Tarantino

   3. David Lynch

   4. Ridley Scott

6. 

   Estella has a new tourist attraction after the botched restoration of a wooden effigy in a church. Who is the statue meant to depict?

   1. Saint George

   2. Saint Martin of Tours

   3. Saint Andrew

   4. Nicetas the Goth

7. Zsa Zsa won the title of "world's ugliest dog" this week. Can you spot her?

   1. 

      This one?

   2. 

      This one?

   3. 

      This one?

   4. 

      This one?

8. Which astronaut started suing two of their children this week?

   1. Helen Sharman

   2. Harrison Schmitt

   3. Buzz Aldrin

   4. Chris Hadfield

9. The UK’s biggest wholesaler has begun rationing beer, cider and soft drinks. Why?

   1. Impact of the sugar tax

   2. Too many hipsters drinking craft beer while watching the World Cup

   3. Shortage of food-grade carbon dioxide

   4. Interruption of supply chains due to Brexit

10. Elon Musk has been drawn into a dispute with an artist about what?

    1. A farting unicorn

    2. A weeing hedgehog

    3. A small chimp flicking V-signs

    4. A spitting wombat

11. 

    How did Boris Johnson avoid voting on Heathrow expansion plans?

    1. Went to Afghanistan

    2. Went on an expedition looking for the money spent on London's lost garden bridge

    3. Spent all day riding around in a stiflingly hot "modern" Routemaster bus

    4. Locked himself in a toilet in Westminster

Solutions

1:C - Yes, five years after a mysterious virus wiped out millions of starfish off the western coast of North America, taking various species to the brink of disappearance, scientists have announced a remarkable reversal., 2:B - The Cure's Robert Smith programmed 10 days of events in London which featured Manic Street Preachers and My Bloody Valentine among others., 3:D - Roseanne Barr was being interview about the loss of her flagship show after ABC Entertainment's president, Channing Dungey, said the actor's tweets were “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values”., 4:A - The image of an Australasian cockatoo in a manuscript written by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II trumps a similar discovery in a 15th-century artwork, making it the first European depiction of the bird from the other side of the globe., 5:C - Lynch said in an interview with the Guardian that Trump "could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much". He has since distanced himself from the comments., 6:A - "The parish decided on its own to take action to restore the statue and gave the job to a local handicrafts teacher," said the mayor of Estella after the statue of Saint George was improved/ruined* [*delete according to your sense of humour], 7:A - There she is. Who's a good girl? Eh? Who's a good girl?, 8:C - Aldrin claims his son Andrew and daughter Janice have been using his legacy “for their own self-dealing and enrichment”. He'll always be a hero to us after he once punched someone who told him the moon landings were faked., 9:C - Yes, it's a gas shortage. Although, in fairness, this is also being exacerbated by too many hipsters drinking craft beer while watching the World Cup., 10:A - Tom Edwards, a Colorado potter, claims Musk has repeatedly used the image without compensating him., 11:A - Having previously said he would lie down in front of a bulldozer to prevent a third runway being built at Heathrow, Johnson flew 3,500 miles to be in Afghanistan when the vote was taking place.

Scores

1. 2 and above.

   Nice try

2. 6 and above.

   Excellent effort

3. 0 and above.

   Very poor - why are we even making this website?

4. 10 and above.

   News guru. You start on Monday.

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