THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

1 Today is Groundhog Day in the US. Where does Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting rodent celebrated in Bill Murray’s film, make his weather predictions?

(a) Gobbler’s Knob, Pennsylvania

(b) Armpit, Idaho

(c) Windy Bottom, New Jersey

2 Singer Taylor Swift always travels with Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson. Who are they?

(a) Her voice coaches

(b) Her personal trainers

(c) Her cats

3 According to a leading historian of the subject, a “perfect storm” of factors has led to a tragic decline in passion among the French for…

(a) Bread

(b) Adultery

(c) Red wine

4 The late Nicholas Parsons hosted Radio Four’s Just a

Minute for more than 50 years. He got the job when the original host, the comedian Jimmy Edwards, gave up the gig because it clashed with his regular…

(a) Turkish bath

(b) Game of polo

(c) Palm reading

5 After a two-year legal battle, a public footpath in Carmarthenshire is to be re-routed because it passes through…

(a) The Prince of Wales’s organic vegetable patch

(b) An RAF bombing range

(c) A nudist campsite

6 A casket containing bones and a vial of blood has been kept in Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin since 1936, and is often visited by couples. With whom are the relics connected?

(a) James Joyce

(b) St Valentine

(c) St Patrick

7 The Countess of Sutherland, holder of Scotland’s premier earldom, passed on her family’s stately seat at Dunrobin Castle in favour of a smaller property on the remote north coast. Called what?

(a) Pinkie Lodge

(b) House of Tongue

(c) Fort Gristle

8 Jewel beetles are less likely than other insects to be eaten by predators, because they are…

(a) Tiny

(b) Whiny

(c) Shiny

9 A reader contacted the Telegraph’s Consumer Champion to say that she had ordered a laptop from Amazon, but they…

(a) “… sent me a hairdryer and told me to call the police.”

(b) “… sent me a sandwich toaster and told me to call them Sir.”

(c) “… sent me a thong and told me to call a doctor.”

10 The governmentfunded Tech Nation Upscale programme helps start-up technology companies, such as Seatfrog. What is Seatfrog?

(a) A seat upgrade app

(b) A chair adjustment app

(c) A French-propertyfinder app

11 The latest theory about Lord Lucan suggests that the long-disappeared murderer-peer is now…

(a) An Argentine gaucho

(b) An Australian suburban Buddhist

(c) A Mormon polygamist in the wilds of Utah

12 To what does India’s prime Minister, Narendra Modi, attribute his healthy glow?

(a) Meditation

(b) Radiation

(c) Facial massage with his own sweat