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Welcome to the Guardian Thursday news quiz. Thanks to our illustration from Anaïs Mims, you must decide whether you are a neatly curled question mark of knowledge, or a miniature naughty dachshund of ignorance, cheerfully causing chaos and refusing to come when called, while balancing on a ball. Fifteen questions on topical headlines, pop culture and general knowledge await. There are no prizes, but we always enjoy hearing how you got on in the comments. Allons-y!
The Thursday news quiz, No 242
- 1.Who, pictured, has been chosen as the new head of Ofcom?
- 2.The UK government is to cap the rate of interest on plan 2 and plan 3 student loans to what from September?
- 3.There is uproar where after it was realised a little-noted clause in a recent change to military service policy requires men aged 17 to 45 to apply for authorisation to leave the country for more than three months?
- 4.The programme for the 31st Meltdown festival at the South Bank has been announced. Who is curating it this year?
- 5.Which finance company has secured agreement with London City airport to seek planning permission to build one of Europe’s tallest office towers in the east of the city?
- 6.This week's flag question is about Colombia. The country's flag shares its yellow, blue and red colour scheme with which two neighbouring states?
- 7.Making the quiz feel better about its parenting skills, some parents have been charged with letting their child get practically into the wolf enclosure at which zoo?
- 8.Politicians in Spain have been clashing about the proposed loan of which painting (not pictured) to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao?
- 9.Farther or nearer with Geordie Alan Shearer! This week we imagine the England soccer legend wants to know, if he leaves his hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne, which is farther or nearer – Nuuk, Greenland or Ankara, Turkey?
- 10.This week's guest canine is one of the world's biggest dogs (quiz master pictured for scale). Tigger is from Fareham, and she wants to be reminded of the surnames of the astronauts aboard Artemis II …
Jones, Woomble, Newton, Fox
Smith, Hanley, Scanlon, Wolstencroft
Wiseman, Glover, Koch, Hansen
Moscrop, Johnson, Topping, Kerr
- 11.German mayors have called for a nationwide ban on night-time use of robot lawnmowers to protect what?
- 12.Ahead of this year's bloated 48-team Fifa men's World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada, which sports equipment manufacturer is having to address a problem with the shoulder seam on their recently released kits?
- 13.The Thursday quiz fondly remembers Keith Chegwin, so here is Cheggers plays population! Which of these has the biggest population: Switzerland, Austria, or the Czech Republic?
- 14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 9 April is the anniversary of King Philip III of Spain decreeing the expulsión de los moriscos – descendants of Spain's Muslim population who had been forced to convert to Christianity. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – in which year …
- 15.And finally … which band are currently playing a five night residency in Camden where they are only playing obscure album tracks and b-sides?
If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers – and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren’t attempting to factcheck a joke – you can complain about it in the comments below. Why not watch Boys by Just For Fun instead?
