Retirements, resignations and robberies: it's the Friday News Quiz

What does 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served? have to do with this week’s News Quiz? Photograph: Allstar/Anglo/Sportsphoto

The end of the working week is in sight. Why not test your knowledge of news from the last seven days, and prove to yourself that all that time checking the Guardian website on your phone when you were meant to be getting on with something else instead wasn’t wasted.

No prizes – but you get the right to brag in the comments below.

The Guardian Friday news quiz

1. 

   Donald Trump had fresh eagle trouble this week, when he cancelled the visit to the White House of the winning superbowl team over the NFL national anthem row. Which city do the Eagles come from?

   1. Philadelphia

   2. Pittsburgh

   3. Phoenix

   4. Portland

2. Which 1980s pop icon this week expressed sympathy for Tommy Robinson, imprisoned founder of the far-right English Defence League?

   1. 

      Sting

   2. 

      Bono

   3. 

      Morrissey

   4. 

      Kate Bush

3. 

   Who had to resign from a key position on a US university free speech programme, after emails revealed he was urging students to conduct “opposition research” on a leftwing student?

   1. Jordan Peterson

   2. Niall Ferguson

   3. Charles Murray

   4. Harvey Klehr

4. 

   The CEO of which international airline had to apologise after saying that a woman would not be able to do his job, because it was very difficult?

   1. Emirates

   2. Etihad

   3. Gulf Air

   4. Qatar Airways

5. 

   Which department store has announced plans to close half of its outlets?

   1. Grace Bros

   2. House of Fraser

   3. Selfridges

   4. Debenhams

6. Giuseppe Conte has enjoyed his first week as Italian PM. Which one of these four men is he?

   1. 

      Him?

   2. 

      Him?

   3. 

      Him?

   4. 

      Him?

7. The editor of which British newspaper is to step down in November, after 26 years in the job?

   1. Daily Mail

   2. Daily Express

   3. The Times

   4. The Guardian

8. Which social media platform is being abandoned by US teens, according to a study from the Pew Research Center?

   1. 

      Snapchat

   2. 

      Instagram

   3. 

      Facebook

   4. 

      YouTube

9. 

   Which comedian was robbed by two men on a moped while on the school run, according to reports?

   1. Eddie Izzard

   2. Lee Evans

   3. Michael McIntyre

   4. Jimmy Carr

10. 

    A new English translation of letters by which Russian composer includes once-censored passages about his homosexuality?

    1. Modest Mussorgsky

    2. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    3. Alexander Borodin

    4. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

11. 

    The BBC has announced that one of its most venerable studios is to close. Which one?

    1. Broadcasting House

    2. Elstree Centre

    3. MediaCityUK

    4. Maida Vale

12. 

    A skeleton sold for more than €2m (£1.8m) at the Eiffel Tower in Paris this week. What did it belong to?

    1. A rare dinosaur

    2. A neanderthal

    3. A blue whale

    4. A headless ex-member of the French royal family

Solutions

1:A - In a reference to the NFL kneeling row, Trump said they couldn't come to his party because “They disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country”. In response, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney accused Trump of being "a fragile egomaniac obsessed with crowd size and afraid of the embarrassment of throwing a party to which no one wants to attend.", 2:C - Speaking on blogging site Tremr, Morrissey said: “It’s very obvious that Labour or the Tories do not believe in free speech … I mean, look at the shocking treatment of Tommy Robinson.”, 3:B - Ferguson urged conservative students to conduct “some opposition research on Mr O” – a reference to a leftwing activist student at Stanford, Michael Ocon. After the emails were published last Thursday, Ferguson said he regretted his actions but explained that he had been “deeply concerned” that Stanford’s student steering committee was in danger of “being taken over by elements that were fundamentally hostile to free speech” so tried to get people to shut them up., 4:D - Referring to his role as chief executive of Qatar Airways, Akbar Al Baker stunned a press conference on Tuesday by saying: “Of course, it has to be led by a man because it is a very challenging position". By Wednesday, after a rapid conversion to the concept of equality, he offered his “heartfelt apologies”., 5:B - The struggling department store group’s Oxford Street flagship in London and outlets in cities including Birmingham, Cardiff and Edinburgh are among the 31 facing closure., 6:A - It's him. Two of the other men pictured are also part of the new government - Luigi Di Maio the M5S leader, and far-right League chief Matteo Salvini. Plus Chelsea's Antonio Conte for good measure. Please don't tell us you clicked him., 7:A - Paul Dacre has edited the newspaper since 1992. Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell paid fond tribute, posting "Dacre retires to spend more time with his EU grants on his Scottish estate and bronzing his corpulent frame in his fourth home in the British Virgin Islands. Worst of British values posing as the best. Malign influence on media culture. Good riddance xx", 8:C - Just 51% of US individuals aged 13 to 17 say they use Facebook – a dramatic plunge from the 71% who said they used the social network in Pew’s previous study in 2015,, 9:C - According to reports, the men smashed his car windows with a hammer on Monday, before taking his watch and fleeing, , 10:B - The Tchaikovsky Papers: Unlocking the Family Archive is being published by Yale University Press. Most of the letters have never before been available in English. In one Tchaikovsky wrote of a young servant “with whom I am more in love than ever”, adding: “My God, what an angelic creature and how I long to be his slave, his plaything, his property!”, 11:D - The BBC hopes to relocate most of Maida Vale’s functions to a new complex in the Stratford Waterfront development in the Olympic Park by 2023. The BBC has used the studio for 84 years. Many famous recordings, including the original Doctor Who theme, and Peel Sessions from bands like Joy Division, were made there. , 12:A - The 150m-year-old dinosaur skeleton is 70% intact, and is the only one of its species to have been discovered. It is related to the carnivorous allosaurus, but there are, according to scientists “as many differences between it and an allosaurus as between a human and a gorilla”. It was bought by a private collector, who says they intend to loan it to a museum.

Scores

1. 11 and above.

   News guru! You start on Monday.

2. 7 and above.

   Excellent effort.

3. 3 and above.

   Could do better to be honest.

4. 0 and above.

   Dreadful. What are we even making this website for?

• Let us know how you score – or argue about the answers in the comments below