THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

1 What is Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker’s middle name?

(a) Pele

(b) Winston

(c) Boris

2 Nina Döbler Menegatto, the newly appointed princess of Seborga, an Italian principality and microstate, will be known as what by her citizens?

(a) Her Tremendousness

(b) Her Fabulousness

(c) Her Magnificence

3 Jamie Dimon, boss of US bank JP Morgan, has criticised “greedy”, “selfish” bankers who have overpaid themselves since the financial crisis. Roughly how much has Mr Dimon been paid since the crash? (a) $24.8million

(b) $2.48million

(c) $248million

4 Bob Norris was a wealthy American cattle rancher whose alter ego brought him nationwide fame. What was it?

(a) Marlboro Man

(b) Duff Man

(c) Superman

5 In his letter from his house in Jamaica, the James Bond author Ian Fleming reports a visitor freshly arrived from Moscow, “hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissar’s uniform hat”. Who was it?

(a) Jeremy Corbyn

(b) Andy Warhol

(c) Truman Capote

6 Former chancellor Philip Hammond has a new job, a week after leaving Parliament. What kind of firm has Mr Hammond joined? (a) Bookmaker

(b) Bottlemaker

(c) Boilermaker

7 Sociologists refer to Western populations by the acronym “Weird”. What characteristics does this represent?

(a) Wasteful, Entitled, Inactive, Relaxed and Docile

(b) Worried, Enraged, Irrational, Rebellious and Defiant

(c) Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic

8 Research published in the medical journal Clinical Neurophysiology suggests that a particular kind of adult human behaviour may be one’s “inner baby talking”. Which phenomenon is described in this way?

(a) Hiccups

(b) Burping

(c) Passing wind

9 An exceptionally rare animal, not seen since the Nineties and feared to be extinct, has been photographed in Vietnam. What is it?

(a) The scaly pangolin

(b) The fanged mouse-deer (c) The horned tree toad

10 Nick Nolte appears in The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars television series. What does the veteran thespian play?

(a) A grizzled moisture farmer

(b) A ravaged sweat harvester

(c) A drawn dew gatherer

11 What is under scrutiny in the Trial of the Pyx, held every year in Glamorgan?

(a) Pixies

(b) Coins

(c) Instagram photographs

12 Which tourist destination will close for maintenance for three days next year?

(a) The Statue of Liberty (b) The Eiffel Tower

(c) The Faroe Islands