Charmed sisters, footballing mammoths and leaders who quit – take the Thursday quiz

What is the nickname of the woolly mammoth recently sparking scientific discoveries? See question 13 for more details. Photograph: David Fleetham/Alamy

As the only topical news quiz that also sometimes includes questions about the middle ages, the Thursday quiz is proud of its track record of making sure people read every news item during the week and have to subscribe to the Encyclopaedia Britannica in order to cover all possible bases. Fifteen questions await you, with varying degrees of difficulty and subtlety. There are no prizes, it is just meant to be for fun. Let us know how you get on in the comments!

The Thursday quiz, No 169

1. 

   Which gloriously gorgeous French cathedral survived a fire last week?

   1. Rennes

   2. Nice

   3. Rouen

   4. Lille

2. 

   Who has Donald Trump picked as his running mate?

   1. JK Bunce

   2. JD Vance

   3. JJ Varga

   4. TJ Hooker

3. 

   Despite the good folk of South West Norfolk unequivocally voting for her to do one, Liz Truss decided she should go to the Republican National Convention. Lucky, lucky them. Where is it being held?

   1. Milwaukee, WI

   2. Tallahassee, FL

   3. Lansing, MI

   4. Columbus, OH

4. 

   Vaughan Gething has also had to sling his hook. He was first minister of Wales for slightly longer than Liz Truss was prime minister. When was he appointed?

   1. January 2024

   2. February 2024

   3. March 2024

   4. April 2024

5. 

   We lost Shelley Duvall, who famously starred in The Shining. But which director cast her in seven different movies between 1970 and 1980?

   1. William Friedkin

   2. Ken Russell

   3. Woody Allen

   4. Robert Altman

6. 

   We also lost Shannen Doherty. Which sister did she play in Charmed?

   1. Prue

   2. Piper

   3. Phoebe

   4. Peri

7. 

   True or false: the Christian conservative Federal Democratic Union of Switzerland party has announced it is to try to use referendums to ban Eurovision?

   1. True

   2. False

8. 

   This week's geography question is about Saudi Arabia. Which coast is the port city of Jeddah on?

   1. North coast

   2. South coast

   3. East coast

   4. West coast

9. 

   Haile Gebrselassie (not pictured) is one of the greatest distance runners of all time. He won two consecutive gold medals in the 10,000m in the Olympics. In which years?

   1. 1988 Seoul and 1992 Barcelona

   2. 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney

   3. 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing

   4. 2008 Beijing and 2012 London

10. 

    On 18 July, King Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, banishing Jews from the country. When?

    1. 1090

    2. 1190

    3. 1290

    4. 1390

11. 

    It is the anniversary of the computer chip giant Intel (not pictured) being founded in 1968 under a different name. It swiftly changed to Intel. What does Intel stand for?

    1. Integrated electronics

    2. Intelligent electronics

    3. International electrics

    4. Incorporated electrics

12. 

    Who scored Spain's second and winning goal in the Euro 2024 final?

    1. Dani Carvajal

    2. Nico Williams

    3. Mikel Oyarzabal

    4. Ronald Mael

13. 

    Talking of heroic England defeats, researchers have reconstructed the genetic code of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth sample that they have named after one of England's Italia 90 squad. Who?

    1. Peter Beardlsey

    2. Paul Gascoigne

    3. Gary Lineker

    4. Chris Waddle

14. 

    Willow, the official dog of the Guardian Thursday quiz, knows that there is a mathematical operation denoted by the symbol !. Evaluate 9! for her …

    1. 362,880

    2. 9,000

    3. 45

    4. 30-50

15. 

    Katy Perry has been getting absolute pelters over her new single. What is it called?

    1. Women's Hour

    2. Women's Universe

    3. Women's Time

    4. Women's World

    5. Women Wonder What The Hell They Just Listened To

Solutions

1:C - “The interior was saved, above all the works of art,” said the culture minister, Rachida Dati, who visited the scene at the request of Emmanuel Macron after renovation works around the spire caught fire., 2:B - He seems nice., 3:A - The first RNC was back in 1856 and this is the first time that Milwaukee has hosted it., 4:C - He was appointed on 20 March 2024 and the Thursday quiz abacus makes that a term of 119 days., 5:D - She first worked with him on Brewster McCloud in 1970, and played Olive Oyl opposite Robin Williams' Popeye in Altman's 1980 live-action movie of the famous comic strip and cartoon., 6:A - Shannen was Prue, with Holly Marie Combs as Piper and Alyssa Milano as Phoebe in the show's original trio., 7:A - The fun sponges say “a country that provides a stage to such disgusting trash won’t elevate its image but merely showcase its own intellectual decline”., 8:D - Jeddah is on the west coast, on the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia doesn't have northern or southern coasts, as it is bordered by Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait to the north, and Oman and Yemen to the south., 9:B - Gebrselassie won his first gold at the World Junior Championships in Seoul in 1992 and went on to win at the next two main events., 10:C - Edward I reigned from 1272 to 1307, and led a crusade before that in 1271. The edict stayed in place for centuries until Oliver Cromwell permitted the informal resettlement of Jews in the mid-1650s., 11:A - Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded NM Electronics, changed it to Intel, and then paid off the hotel chain Intelco to continue using it exclusively., 12:C - He came on in the 68th minute and scored in the 86th minute., 13:D - They named it Chris Waddle because its luxurious mane resembles the England player's legendary mullet haircut., 14:A - The factorial of a number is the product of all the natural numbers from 1 to that number, in this case 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 x 6 x 7 x 8 x 9 = 9! = 362,880., 15:D - As the Thursday quiz's colleague Laura Snapes put it, "a song that made me feel stupider every sorry time I listened to it".

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