THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

In her new biography of Anne Branwell, Sharon Wright raises an important question. Was the mother of the Brontës raised by… (a) Wolves

(b) Pirates

(c) Royalty

Boris Johnson has a new puppy. Which of his predecessors as prime minister kept goats, pigs and – briefly – a lion?

(a) Benjamin Disraeli (b) Pitt the Elder

(c) Winston Churchill

Who commented, after his first LSD trip in 1968: “I’m supposed to be Jewish, but I was seeing the most beautiful visions of Gothic cathedrals”?

(a) Woody Allen

(b) Groucho Marx

(c) Dustin Hoffman

In 1999 Bruckner Elementary School in Saginaw, Michigan became the first educational establishment to ban which works on religious grounds? (a) The Harry Potter novels

(b) The Lord of the Rings series (c) The Narnia books

Tokyo, Singapore and Osaka are top, while Yangon, Caracas and Lagos are at the bottom. London is 14th. On what basis has the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked 60 cities?

(a) Safety

(b) Politeness

(c) Traffic congestion Scientists at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute in South Korea have come up with sensors that allow robots to feel…

(a) Love

(b) Jealousy

(c) Pain

Telegraph writer Miranda Levy loves Magnesium Body Butter. Why?

(a) It protects her skin while sunbathing

(b) It helps her sleep

(c) It reduces the appearance of wrinkles Jeremy Paxman has suggested that Parliament should be relocated. Where does he recommend?

(a) Truro

(b) Cleethorpes

(c) Wolverhampton

According to the Harvard historian Juliet Schor, the average 14thcentury French citizen spent approximately half the year…

(a) Fighting the English (b) On holiday

(c) Being rude to tourists

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A thousand people set a record at Land’s End in Cornwall when they all did the same thing at once. What was it? (a) Ate a pasty

(b) Blew their noses

(c) Executed a landscape painting 11

The finder believes that an enamelled ring engraved with the phrase “Truth betrayes not” may once have belonged to whom?

(a) Anne Boleyn

(b) William Shakespeare (c) Philip Hammond 12

Recruiters are seeking a male with certain physical characteristics for a site-specific job. What is it? (a) Napoleon impersonator on St Helena

(b) R2-D2 inhabitant at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland

(c) Wellington impersonator at Waterloo