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Thursday again so soon. Ahead of you 15 questions on topical trivia, general knowledge, and slightly random things that the quizmaster remembers from the 1990s. Or was it the 1980s? Anyway, you know the drill by now: there’s Kate Bush and Ron from Sparks and bonus points in the comments for any hidden Doctor Who references you can spot – there are at least three this week. There are no prizes, it is just for fun. Let us know how you get on the comments.

The Thursday quiz, No 46

1.BOWLER OF THE CENTURY: The Thursday quiz wishes to start by paying tribute to one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Shane Warne. His family have accepted the offer of a state funeral from which Australian state, where he was born?

2.SO FILL UP YOUR GLASSES AND JOIN IN THE SONG: We also lost the lovely Lynda Baron this week. She was in three separate Doctor Who stories between 1966 and 2011 – but what was the name of the character she played in the children’s show Come Outside between 1993 and 1997?

3.FUNNY FACE: That’s a 1981 Sparks song where they “looked a lot like a Vogue magazine”, but that’s not important right now. Which British TV comedy show is launching its own worldwide streaming platform?

4.SWEET BABY CHEESES: The World Championship Cheese Contest takes place each year in Wisconsin – famed for its cheeses, I guess. Anyway, which type of Swiss cheese has won it for the second consecutive time?

5.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It is the wonderful Neneh Cherry’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Neneh! What was her hugely successful debut album called?

6.ON THIS DAY: It is also the quizmaster’s mum’s birthday today. Happy birthday mum! She’s 75 you know! But it is also the anniversary of the first successful telephone test by Alexander Graham Bell. What was the first thing he said?

7.ALSO ON THIS DAY BUT IN SPACE: In 1977 astronomers announced the discovery of rings around Uranus. I know. I know. How many rings around Uranus do astronomers currently say there are?

8.GCSE SCIENCE CORNER: Mosquitos can pass malarial parasites to humans. The little scumbags. What name is given to an organism that transmits a disease?

9.LITERATURE: Which of Iris Murdoch’s books won the Booker Prize in 1978?

10.SCULPTURE OF A GODDESS Swindon boasts a sculpture trail that includes works by Hideo Furuta and Jon Buck. But which glamorous movie and TV star from the town is celebrated with a statue outside a multiplex cinema at Shaw Ridge leisure park? It isn’t the statue in the picture by the way.

11.WELL, THIS IS AWKWARD: The National Portrait Gallery has acquired its first painted self-portrait by a black female artist, Everlyn Nicodemus’s Självporträtt, Åkersberga. How long, since the collection was first founded, has it taken for that to happen?

12.PLUMBER, BUT: 10 March is celebrated by some people as Mario day, as if you look at the date Mar 10 and squint really hard it sort of looks like it spells Mario. It is no “May the fourth be with you”, that’s for sure. But what was the early 1980s Nintendo game where Mario was unusually cast as the villain?

13.ALLONS-Y: The website Wikivoyage lists 23 locations visited by the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Vernes’ novel Around the World in 80 Days. No 6 is Aden, Yemen. But what is the name of the ancient construction used to channel rainwater into drinking water for the city?

14.FIBONACCI NUMBERS: First described in Indian mathematics, and forming a sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones, F₃ is two. But which of these statements is true about the number two?

15.MUSIC: Which of these acts had a hugely successful album with It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back?

  • If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email [email protected] but remember, the quizmaster’s word is always final, and he is probably too busy covering the Winter Paralympics at the moment to read his email anyway.


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