Thursday news quiz: train names, banned games and a problematic moose

This particular moose has not been causing any problems, but what is the name of the Austrian one that has? Photograph: Design Pics Inc/Alamy

As the weekend draws inexorably closer it is time again to test your mettle against the Guardian Thursday news quiz. How much attention have you been paying to stories featuring mischievous or kinky animals, or that have trains involved? Because those are the kinds of story that always draw the quiz’s eye. There are no prizes, but let us know how you get on in the comments. Allons-y!

The Thursday news quiz, No 216

1. 

   Whom did Donald Trump's motorcade delay in New York after their speech at the UN?

   1. Giorgia Meloni

   2. Viktor Orbán

   3. Emmanuel Macron

   4. Ronald Mael

2. 

   Joyless coppers in Venice have fined the parents of children who were doing what in the street?

   1. Making chalk drawings

   2. Playing football

   3. Rollerskating

   4. Running amok with a troop of escaped macaques and 30-50 feral hogs

3. 

   A painting of the French photographer and painter Dora Maar called Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (not pictured) that had not been seen in public for 80 years has been unveiled. Who was the artist?

   1. Jean Dubuffet

   2. Léon Colbert

   3. Henri Matisse

   4. Pablo Picasso

4. 

   After a public vote, Network Rail's new leaf-blowing train (not pictured) is to be called what?

   1. Pulp Friction

   2. Ctrl Alt Deleaf

   3. Leaf-Fall Weapon

   4. Mr Ring-a-ding

5. 

   The only thing the Thursday quiz loves more than trains is a decent pub, so imagine the thrill of discovering that this week one of seven new Grade II listings announced to mark 200 years of public railways was the first purpose-built train pub in the UK. What is it called?

   1. The Cleveland Bay in Stockton

   2. The Redcar Cob in Rugby

   3. The Bishopton Roan in Crewe

   4. The Very Naughty Miniature Dachshund in Gosport

6. 

   This is Willow, the increasingly chonky official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz. She wants to know the name of the moose that has been relocated to a nature reserve after causing chaos with his frolics in Austria.

   1. Emil

   2. Florian

   3. Karl

   4. Derek

7. 

   Marine biologists (not pictured) were somewhat surprised to observe the mating process of which species (also not pictured) for the first time and find out it involved a threesome?

   1. Leopard sharks

   2. Thresher sharks

   3. Frilled sharks

   4. Dunwich sharks

8. 

   Chelsea's head honcho, Enzo Maresca, has had little sympathy for two of his players, Raheem Sterling and Axel Disasi, who have been exiled from the first team squad in lieu of being ushered out of the door marked 'do one'. Maresca told them that real hardship was doing what his 75-year-old father does. What is that?

   1. Work overnight as a security guard

   2. Work overnight as a fisherman

   3. Work overnight as a cleaner

   4. Support Chelsea

9. 

   The Star Wars franchise has issued a first picture of Ryan Gosling (not pictured) starring in a forthcoming movie that continues the space saga. What is it to be called?

   1. Star Wars: Starfighter

   2. Star Wars: Starkiller

   3. Star Wars: Starpilot

   4. Star Wars: The Search for Spock

10. 

    Which city (not pictured, those bad boys are in Melbourne) has just hosted the world tram driver championship?

    1. Salzburg

    2. Linz

    3. Vienna

    4. Klow

11. 

    We sadly lost JD Twitch, the esteemed DJ who did so much for the dance and electronic music scene in Scotland. He was part of a duo named what?

    1. Primo

    2. Magnimo

    3. Perfecto

    4. Optimo

12. 

    This week's guest canine is Herbie, whom the Thursday quiz met in a pub in Brixton. What a good boy. He wants to know the name of the support dog that has left Magilligan prison to start a new life after he was said to be limping and 'quivering' at night because of alarms, shouts and fights.

    1. Morgan

    2. Pimm

    3. Gordon

    4. Bailey

13. 

    Which figure associated with boy bands competed in the Berlin marathon under the pseudonym Sted Sarandos?

    1. Justin Timberlake

    2. Harry Styles

    3. Ronan Keating

    4. Gary Barlow's massive son

14. 

    Kamala Harris has decided to cash in on losing the US presidential election with a memoir named after the amount of time she was a candidate. What is it called?

    1. 107 days

    2. 127 days

    3. 147 days

    4. 1,057 days

15. 

    An outdoor brand has disavowed one of its own publicity stunts after a public backlash against a firework display in a remote part of Tibet (not pictured, that's a remote part of London). Which brand?

    1. Tyr’naur

    2. Arc’teryx

    3. Brach’io

    4. Char’zard

Solutions

1:C - Macron had to walk for half an hour through New York to get to the French embassy after calling Trump directly to let him know what had happened, 2:B - Apparently someone complained about the noise. Italy haven't qualified for the last two men's World Cups. Coincidence?, 3:D - The portrait was completed in July 1943 and was only displayed a handful of times before it disappeared into a private collection. The Thursday quiz can recommend the new Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern in London, 4:B - Trainy McTrainface didn't get a look in, 5:A - Every good train nerd knows that the pub was built 200 years ago at the end of the Yarm branch of the Stockton & Darlington railway, 6:A - Emil had to be moved after occupying one of the country's busiest railway lines, halting traffic for four hours, and appeared ready to something similar on an autobahn, 7:A - Dr Hugo Lassauce recorded the (ahem) 'saucy' event. You see what we did there, right?, 8:B - The bigger question here is why someone who earns a reported £4.25m a year insists their 75-year-old father still needs to go out to work at 2am every night, 9:A - Not perhaps the most inspiring of titles, to be honest, 10:C - It was indeed Austria's capital, which needed to get this out of the way so it is free to host the 70th edition of Eurovision next year, 11:D - The artist, whose real name was Keith McIvor, had been diagnosed with an untreatable brain tumour, which he announced in July. His partner in Optimo was Jonnie Wilkes, 12:D - To be honest, the quiz has made a light-hearted question out of it here, but it sounds like it has been a nightmare for Bailey and several other animals inside the Northern Ireland prison system, 13:B - He recorded a time of just under three hours. Well done that man!, 14:A - So slightly over the duration of two Liz Truss premierships, 15:B - The company, which commissioned the display, said it was 'out of line with Arc’teryx’s values'

Scores

1. 0 and above.

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