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The Thursday quiz hopes that Valentine’s Day was everything you dreamed it would be, and that today’s quiz will not give you nightmares. You face 15 questions of varying degrees of topicality, difficulty, and sensibility. There are no prizes, it is just for fun. Let us know how you got on in the comments.

The Thursday quiz, No 95

  1. 1.PHEW WHAT A GLOBAL HEATING SCORCHER: The residents of the Swiss canton of Valais are finding what invasive species on their ski slopes due to global heating?

  2. 2.POOR TASTE: An advert in Cornwall that was placed next to a direction sign for a crematorium has been removed after people thought it might be offensive. What was it for?

    Coffin at a cemetery

  3. 3.WHAT SORT OF UNHOLY DESIGN MESS DO YOU CALL THAT: The Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics have unveiled a set of absolutely baffling pictogram designs. When were pictograms first introduced to the Olympics?

    Paris pictograms

  4. 4.DKTR FAUSTUS: In 1986 it inspired a song by the Fall, but the play Faust – Der Tragödie erster Teil was published in 1808 and is generally considered as one of the greatest works of German literature. Who wrote it?

    Mark E Smith

  5. 5.HIGHER OR LOWER WITH TONY YEBOAH: This week the Leeds United legend wants to know which of these four Indian cities is the most northerly?

    Tony Yeboah

  6. 6.SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT: Simply Red have sold more than 50m albums, so surely at least one of you will be able to put their first four UK album releases in the correct order?

    Vinyl

  7. 7.ON THIS DAY-ISH: On 17 February, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Which year?

    Tutankhamun

  8. 8.HAPPY BIRTHDAY: It is Christopher Eccleston’s birthday today. Happy birthday Chris! What was the name of the first episode of Doctor Who that he starred in?

    Christopher Eccleston

  9. 9.GCSE SCIENCE WRITTEN BY AN AI: The Thursday quiz asked ChatGPT “please write a multiple choice question about human biology aimed at GCSE students” and it said “What type of tissue forms the protective covering of bones?”

    ChatGPT

  10. 10.THE LEFTWING ECONOMIC ESTABLISHMENT WITH LIZ TRUSS: The International Monetary Fund was founded in 1944, and began operation on 27 December 1945. Where is it headquartered?

    Liz Truss

  11. 11.I WANT TO BELIEVE: UFOs are back in fashion in the news. What was the first name of David Duchovny’s character Mulder in the X-Files?

    Alien and pet

  12. 12.COCKTAIL O’CLOCK: What do you add to a martini to make it ‘dirty’?

    Cocktail O'clock

  13. 13.IT’S A DOG’S LIFE: This is Willow, the official dog of the Guardian’s Thursday quiz. She wants to know if you think it is true that dogs can sweat through their paws?

    Willow

  14. 14.MATHS WITH GOTHS: The bouncer at Slimelight says they won’t let your goth dogs in unless you can name the lowest prime number with four digits. Which is it?

    Goth dogs

  15. 15.WHAM BAM, THANK YOU SAM: Sam Smith’s outfit at the Brits helpfully outed a load of dullards in comments around the internet who would have been the kind of dads going “Oooooh is it a girl or a boy?” when Culture Club first appeared on Top of the Pops in 1982. But who won artist of the year at the Brits this year?

    Sam Smith

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 final, and he is actually in Oxford today visiting the Knossos exhibition at the Ashmolean so won’t read them.




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