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This week the Thursday quiz is flush with success, having been part of a team that won a pub quiz at the weekend. The quiz didn’t feature Kate Bush or Sparks, but there was a Doctor Who question, so victory had clearly been written in the stars. Will you be so lucky? You face 15 questions of varying degrees of topicality, stupidity and impossibility. Unlike at the weekend, when the Thursday quiz walked out of the pub an entire £9.50 richer, there are no prizes because this is just for fun. But let us know how you got on in the comments.

The Thursday quiz, No 105

1. 

   FOX OFF: Which high profile presenter (not pictured) left Fox News in the US this week?

   1. Sean Hannity

   2. Brian Kilmeade

   3. Tucker Carlson

   4. Alex Jones

2. 

   OFF WITH THEIR HEADS: Which song has been removed from the official King Charles III coronation playlist because of the artist's avowed republican views?

   1. Pride (In the Name of Love) by U2

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

   3. Don’t You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds

   4. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers

3. 

   HOW SURREAL: Three statues by Salvador Dalí will have their British debuts when they form part of a statue trail where?

   1. Swindon

   2. Shrewsbury

   3. Skegness

   4. Stirling

4. 

   WE MEET ONCE MORE: Which Japanese annual festival has been held in person for the first time since the Covid pandemic?

   1. The "Sapporo international mud wrestling festival"

   2. The "sushi downhill rolling festival"

   3. The "crying baby sumo festival"

   4. The "Jigokudani monkey park tennis festival"

5. 

   THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BULLIES, WITH DOMINIC RAAB: This week the former deputy prime minister wants to know which trio below are all characters in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

   1. Martin, David and Andrew

   2. Ralph, Simon and Jack

   3. James, Sean and Nicky

   4. Dominic, Gavin and Priti

6. 

   WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2023: The Fifa Women's World Cup starts in July, and we will be having a question about every country taking part. When did Morocco regain its independence from France as the "Kingdom of Morocco", shortly afterwards adding the territories ceded from Spain's protectorate in the north?

   1. 1946

   2. 1956

   3. 1966

   4. 1976

7. 

   WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2023: Haiti will be at the World Cup too. The nation of Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic. What is the name of the island?

   1. Jardines del Rey

   2. Île-à-Vache

   3. Turneffe Atoll

   4. Hispaniola

8. 

   WOMEN'S WORLD CUP 2023: Vietnam's will make their debut in the tournament. What is the emblem in the centre of the Vietnamese flag?

   1. A yellow hammer and sickle

   2. A yellow star

   3. A yellow dragon

   4. A yellow temple

9. 

   ON THIS DAY: 27 April 1986 is the anniversary of the evacuation of the city nearest to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where an accident had occurred the previous day. What is the name of the now abandoned city?

   1. Dragostin

   2. Argolis

   3. Viktoryyna

   4. Pripyat

10. 

    SCOTTISH THINGS: How many MSPs are there in the Scottish parliament?

    1. 69

    2. 89

    3. 109

    4. 129

11. 

    THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE: An exciting new series where we work our way through the periodic table week by week until the quiz master gets bored. Element one is hydrogen. Its name is derived from the Greek 'hydro' and 'genes', meaning what?

    1. Water discovery

    2. Water forming

    3. Water goddess

    4. Water off a duck's back

12. 

    HOW EGG-CITING: An Easter egg that has been unopened for how many years went up for auction?

    1. It was from 1939, just before the second world war – so 84 years

    2. It was from 1953, just before Queen Elizabeth II's coronation – so 70 years

    3. It was from 1966, just before England won the World Cup – so 57 years

    4. It was from 1974, just before Sparks had a massive hit with This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us - so 49 years

13. 

    MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU (EARLY): The remarkable memorabilia collection of the British actor who played bounty hunter Boba Fett in the original Star Wars movies was put up for sale in UK. Who was he?

    1. Hugh Lloyd

    2. Jeremy Bulloch

    3. Peter Mayhew

    4. Kenny Baker

14. 

    WHO SANG THAT: James Corden finished his stint on The Late Late Show, raising fears he may return to the UK. Who was the guest for his final Carpool Karaoke?

    1. Katy Perry

    2. Ariane Grande

    3. Adele

    4. Gwen Stefani

15. 

    ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD: Leyton Orient are the champions of League Two in the English Football League, and the quiz master is literally in this photo. But what is Leyton's postcode in London?

    1. E4

    2. E10

    3. E17

    4. E20

Solutions

1:C - “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” the network said in a statement. “We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor." Carlson is leaving less than a week after Fox settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5m. , 2:D - The song has been removed from the playlist after complaints were received about the band’s republican views. You won't hear the free speech at all costs anti-cancelling brigade complaining about that though. The Scottish rock duo are self-declared republicans and last September, Charlie Reid stated his support for Symon Hill, an author and tutor who was initially charged with using threatening or abusive words or disorderly behaviour during a proclamation ceremony for King Charles in Oxford. , 3:B - “It is amazing,” said Jess Richards, the founder of the town’s annual creative event. “We asked because I like to try to go one better each year, but we did not imagine that this would be possible.”, 4:C - Pairs of toddlers wearing ceremonial sumo aprons were held up by their parents and faced each other in the sumo ring at Sensoji Temple, Tokyo. Staff wearing “oni” demon masks tried to make the babies cry, with the first to bawl declared the winner by a sumo referee., 5:B - The novel was originally rejected by many publishers and had a large opening section describing the nuclear war that led to the boys being stuck on the island, but over the years has come to be regarded as a modern classic, 6:B - It was in March 1956 that the new new kingdom regained control of its territory from the colonial French powers. Spain retained its two coastal enclaves – Ceuta and Melilla – which it continues to rule, despite Morocco claiming sovereignty over the Mediterranean coastal areas., 7:D - Hispaniola is generally considered the most populous island in the West Indies, and the region's second largest by area, after the island of Cuba. The Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic is to the east and the French/Haitian Creole-speaking Haiti is to the west., 8:B - The national flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a yellow star on a red flag and was designed in 1940. The red background symbolises revolution and bloodshed while the golden star represents the five main classes in Vietnamese society — intellectuals, farmers, workers, entrepreneurs and soldiers., 9:D - Founded in 1970 as a city for the employees of the power plant, it had a population of about 50,000 at the time of the accident., 10:D - Elections for the Scottish parliament are for all 129 seats. Of the 129 MSPs, 73 are elected to represent first-past-the-post constituencies and are known as constituency MSPs. The remaining 56, called list MSPs, are elected by the Additional Member System, which seeks to make the overall results more proportional., 11:B - According to the Royal Society of Chemistry: "In the early 1500s the alchemist Paracelsus noted that the bubbles given off when iron filings were added to sulfuric acid were flammable. In 1671 Robert Boyle made the same observation. Neither followed up their discovery of hydrogen, and so Henry Cavendish gets the credit". They must be absolutely kicking themselves. , 12:A - The Mary Mary Quite Contrary egg was given to Sybil Cook, nine, and she held on to it in case chocolate became scarce during the war. Easter egg truthers who love that poem "I remember the corned beef of my childhood ..." would be horrified to discover that it doesn't appear to say "Happy Easter" on it., 13:B - He appeared as Fett in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and everybody gets a bonus point because the other week, while watching the 1965 Doctor Who episode The Space Museum, a friend of the quiz master pointed out that Bulloch was one of the rebels on the planet Xeros., 14:C - Adele broke down in tears while discussing her divorce as she joined James Corden for the final Carpool Karaoke in his last week as host of The Late Late Show on the US network CBS., 15:B - Postcodes in London are (mostly) in alphabetical order. You may remember that East 17 came from Walthamstow; E4 is Chingford; and E20 was the fictional postcode for Walford in EastEnders, although it now covers an area in Stratford developed on the site of the Olympic Park.

Scores

1. 0 and above.

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If you think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email martin.belam@theguardian.com but remember the quiz master’s word is final, and this week he is a quiz champion and his team have won the league and he will have no truck with your nonsense.