Having reached 55 years around the sun, your quiz master was spoiled this week with ludicrously elaborate cocktails by his partner, and as a result vowed to deliver a grand, wildly complex set of questions.

Naturally, as the hangover kicked in, that ambition faded immediately: so it is 15 questions of news, bizarre facts and standard Thursday nonsense as usual. Allons-y!

The Thursday news quiz, No 268

  1. 1.The World Porridge Making championship has been going on in Scotland. What do people compete for?

    Porridge

  2. 2.Which Bolsonaro (not pictured, that’s a mahoosive Jesus in Duran Duran’s Rio) won the first round of the Brazilian presidential election?

    A view of 'Christ the Redeemer'

  3. 3.Who (not pictured) sparked a backlash in the West End after they were filmed telling die-hard fans they can’t keep coming to a show over and over and always sit in the front row because it is distracting?

    Theatre audience

  4. 4.The Trump administration (not pictured) has defended newly hired press aide Beni Rae Harmony who posed for a holiday photograph in 2021 holding a rifle and wearing a t-shirt that said …

    Orange balloon

  5. 5.The Thursday quiz asked Google’s Gemini AI to produce an image of a ‘haunted Victorian pencil’. In other news, on a podcast together, Jacob Rees-Mogg (not pictured) has accused which right-wing US pundit of ‘verging on defending Hitler’?

    Gemini generated image of a 'haunted Victorian pencil'

  6. 6.Talking of AI images, there is a legal case surrounding this popular meme figure (illustrated). Who is it?

    Illustration of the meme

  7. 7.A SpaceX flight rocked up to the ISS, with the crew led for the first ever time by a Black woman (pictured), who is starting her second stay on the station. Who?

    Mission commander

  8. 8.Today’s guest canine is Diesel, posing here for the camera at the Clapton Craft Depot in Walthamstow. They want to know the name of the Scottish film that is being claimed was a ‘talkie’ before The Jazz Singer, usually regarded as the first film with spoken words?

    Diesel poses for the camera at the Clapton Craft Depot in Walthamstow

  9. 9.Believed to be the world’s heaviest insect (not pictured, that’s a plane), which native of New Zealand is thriving again after an intensive breeding programme?

    Wellington

  10. 10.It is Gavin Friday’s birthday today! On a Thursday! He co-wrote Sinéad O’Connor’s You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart, and was the singer in which Irish post-punk band?

    Sinead O'Connor

  11. 11.Which online brand has had to fend of accusations it uses AI to write content after an extremely detailed prompt appeared on its site which seemed to have been generated by internal systems?

    Sad looking robot

  12. 12.The Thursday quiz already has a low opinion of the driving around for circles in ages that is F1, even more so after a ‘software glitch’ caused lots of cars to malfunction at the last shebang. Where was it?

    Slot cars

  13. 13.Some experts have made a new claim that a famously indecipherable and mysterious document (pictured, including the naughty bits) that has confounded scholars for centuries. They say in part it is an indecipherable mess because it has been bound incorrectly. Which document?

    The mysterious manuscript

  14. 14.The welcome return of on this day with Brian May! And his badger! 8 October is the anniversary of the capture of Che Guevara. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen’s legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – in which year …

    Queen guitarist Brian May and Bill the Badger

  15. 15.And finally, whose controversial concerts in Russia have been cancelled after he was deemed to have ‘glorified’ Adolf Hitler (not pictured – that is Charlie Hitler)

    A cat called Charlie

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 Ride Lonesome by Beck instead?

Ride Lonesome by Beck

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