THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

Kary Mullis was a keen surfer who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993 for his work on DNA sequencing. He also claimed to have met an alien disguised as a…

(a) Raccoon

(b) Skunk

(c) Monk

A pair of French tourists who stole from a beach in Sardinia may face up to six years in jail. What were they purloining?

(a) Bikinis

(b) Watches

(c) Sand A 34-year-old mother was arrested and held in police cells in Ipswich for what offence?

(a) Cycling the wrong way up a one-way street

(b) Putting out rubbish in the wrong colour bags

(c) Chewing gum in the foyer of the magistrates’ court

During the Second World War an original copy of Magna Carta was sent to the USA for safekeeping, and returned afterwards aboard the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth. Where was it stowed aboard ship? (a) In a lifeboat

(b) Under the captain’s bed (c) In a large safe in the strongroom

An AI programme called Transkribus is being employed to decipher the “almost impossible to read” handwriting of a pioneering British engineer. Who?

(a) Isambard Kingdom Brunel

(b) Sir James Dyson

(c) John Logie Baird

Indian ministers have recently asserted that their countrymen invented both the internet and space travel. Now India’s minister for human resource development, Ramesh Pokhriyal, has claimed that Indian scientists discovered and described which concept in the fifth century?

(a) Gravity

(b) Relativity

(c) Teleportation

What is kambo? (a) An energy drink made from kombucha tea (b) A powerful drug derived from tree frog secretions

(c) A Madagascan folk dance in imitation of the lemur The Eagle Flight ride at Tatzmania theme park in Germany’s Black Forest has closed. Why? (a) The eagles have all left the Black Forest and now live in Switzerland

(b) Customers were becoming airsick

(c) Ride resembles two giant rotating swastikas

The world’s oldest boatyard has been discovered off the Isle of Wight after a lobster was seen throwing what out of its burrow? (a) Neolithic nails

(b) Worked flints

(c) Human fingerbones

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The Telegraph

refers to movie actor Gerard Butler by which retail-related nickname? (a) Aldi Al Pacino

(b) Lidl Liam Neeson

(c) Poundland Paul Newman

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What is the BM ARC, which will open near Wokingham in Berkshire in 2023?

(a) A new branch of the British Museum

(b) A dealership for BMW electric cars

(c) A British movie archive

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Where, in 1977, did Richard Booth declare himself monarch as Richard Coeur de Livre, announce a transsexual racing driver as his Queen and appoint his horse Prime Minister?

(a) Monte Carlo

(b) Hay-on-Wye

(c) Paris