THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

1 Residents in the Derbyshire village of Kirk Hallam complain that swans – and now their cygnets – are knocking on doors and windows and demanding what?

(a) Special Brew and crack cocaine

(b) Votes for the Liberal Democrats

(c) Bread and water

2 Who, or what, is Mose?

(a) A tribute act parodying English rock band Muse

(b) Venice’s long-awaited flood control system

(c) A YouTube star who issues 10 alternative commandments every week

3 In fashion terms an LBD is a Little Black Dress, as originated by the great designer Coco Chanel. But what, also in fashion terms, is a BLD?

(a) Black Lace Dress

(b) Bikini Line Disaster (c) Backside Like Dumbo’s

4 Vegan students at the University of Sheffield have threatened to boycott a Christmas party because the chosen venue overlooks what?

(a) A field of grazing cows

(b) A greyhound track

(c) A yogurt factory

5 “I puked, fouled myself and collapsed. It was great.” What had this Telegraph interviewee been doing?

(a) Testing supermarket lagers

(b) Watching an episode of

Good Morning Britain with

Piers Morgan

(c) Running an ultramarathon

6 According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the “father of the internet”, what are “borderline really horrible and ghastly”?

(a) Social media posts

(b) Pork scratchings

(c) French bulldogs

7 Which area saw the biggest Remain vote of any UK voting area in the EU Referendum, at 96 per cent of votes cast on an 84 per cent turnout?

(a) Islington, central London

(b) Clifton, Bristol

(c) Gibraltar

8 Which retailrelated concept was first mentioned in print in The American Philatelist magazine in 1966?

(a) Black Friday

(b) BOGOF – buy one get one free

(c) Everything Must Go

9 The government in Bangladesh has organised a large-scale airlift to alleviate a supply crisis in which items?

(a) Antibiotics

(b) Onions

(c) Spectacles

10 With half a million images on Instagram, “belfies” are the new selfies, we are told. What is one portraying in a belfie?

(a) One’s doorbell

(b) One’s best friend

(c) One’s bottom

11 What is a spomenik?

(a) A kind of war memorial in former Yugoslavia

(b) A Ukrainian stew of lamb’s testicles

(c) A tiny Russian spy satellite

12 An ancient vase in the British Museum’s new exhibition, Troy, depicts the fully armed Greek warriors Achilles and Ajax. What are they doing?

(a) Fighting over Helen’s favours

(b) Playing a board game

(c) Snogging