THE SUNDAY QUIZ BY ANDREW BAKER

Have you been paying attention to this week’s news? Test yourself…

Jaden Ashman, a 15-year-old schoolboy from Essex, shared £1.8million with his team-mate for second place in the doubles at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. What was he playing?

(a) Tennis

(b) Laser tag

(c) Fortnite

The Battle Pope comic features a violent pontiff on a mission to… (a) Rescue St Michael from Lucifer

(b) Rid the Vatican of corruption

(c) Chase the Antichrist out of Rome Instagrammers love to pose in and around a beautiful, turquoise lake in the Spanish coastal region of Carballo. What’s the hitch?

(a) It smells of wee

(b) It’s a toxic dump

(c) It contains vicious crabs

Abul Abbas was the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne’s… (a) Tutor

(b) Jester

(c) Elephant

The mayor of the Italian town of Saonara, near Padua, has instituted £360 fines for which offence? (a) Failure to attend football practice

(b) Insulting the mayor (c) Blasphemy

Telegraph columnist Dr Tim Stanley feels that authorities at Rochester Cathedral have committed “an act of desecration”. What have they done?

(a) Held a silent disco in the crypt

(b) Installed a mini-golf course in the nave

(c) Hosted a bar mitzvah in the chapter house

Aston Villa this week signed a talented Zimbabwean midfielder from Club Brugge in Belgium. What is his name?

(a) Marvelous Nakamba (b) Brilliant Nakamba (c) Fantastic Nakamba

In Singapore, children are often taken to the Haw Par Villa museum at the weekend, to see the papier mâché figures depicting…

(a) Lee Kuan Yew, the nation’s first PM, and his family

(b) The crab-eating macaque and other colourful specimens of local wildlife

(c) All the terrible punishments inflicted on sinners in Hell Russi Taylor and Wayne Allwine were married in real life. For which two Disney characters did they provide the voices?

(a) Minnie and Mickey Mouse

(b) Daisy and Donald Duck (c) Snow White and Dopey the dwarf

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Videoassisted refereeing, which was controversially employed in football at the recent Women’s World Cup, is also to be used in which traditional British sport?

(a) Polo

(b) Jousting

(c) Bowls

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Gabriela Flarys’s new dance show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe imagines that an unusual animal has become stranded on the London Underground. What is it?

(a) Whale

(b) Mole

(c) Lion

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Inspired by the Duchess of Sussex in the September issue of Vogue magazine, which she guest edited, sales have dramatically risen of a product that enhances, or imitates…

(a) An American accent (b) A dazzling smile

(c) Freckles