THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

Clergy from the Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Greek Orthodox and Pentecostal Churches gathered in Rome this week in order to compare notes on…

(a) Headgear

(b) Exorcism

(c) Online sermons

Which artist, according to a contemporary, was “physically so strong that… he could bend the ring of an iron door knocker or a horseshoe as if they were lead”?

(a) Pablo Picasso

(b) Vincent van Gogh (c) Leonardo da Vinci According to a thirdcentury Chinese text, King Mu of Zhou became enraged by a courtier’s behaviour and had them mutilated. What kind of courtier was this?

(a) Minstrel

(b) Automaton

(c) Warrior

Luigi de Magistris, the mayor of Naples, has blamed a rise in crime in the southern Italian port city on what?

(a) The poor home form of Napoli FC

(b) German economic policies

(c) The television series Mothers doing what in the early months of pregnancy boosts the intelligence of children, according to a study by experts at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health?

(a) Eating nuts

(b) Singing The Wheels on the Bus (c) Watching quiz shows

Last week’s episode of TV fantasy epic Game

of Thrones featured which incongruous item, in full view on a banqueting table?

(a) An iPhone X

(b) A Big Mac

(c) A Starbucks coffee cup Tourists punting along the River Cam in Cambridge have been subjected to vicious attacks by whom? (a) An adolescent swan (b) Members of the Pitt Club dining society

(c) Embittered oarsmen from the Oxford University Boat Race team

Which products are said to be keeping the faltering North Korean economy from collapse?

(a) Knock-off Russian machine guns and hand grenades

(b) Wigs and false eyelashes (c) Kitsch portraits of Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-il “I wish I hadn’t spent so much time trying to cover it up”. Who, talking about what, in The Telegraph this week?

(a) The Duchess of Sussex on the birth of her first child

(b) A former Cabinet minister on their excessive expenses

(c) Dimitri Papadimitriou, communications director, on his hair loss

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The Château de Cheverny in the Loire Valley in France was the model for which fictional building?

(a) Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

(b) Marlinspike Hall, family seat of the seafaring Haddocks

(c) Burns Manor, 1,000 Mammon Street, Springfield, USA

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A US-based non-profit organisation, Clean Futures Fund, tags, neuters and rehomes stray dogs from which unusual location? (a) The Taj Mahal

(b) Saddam Hussein’s former palace, Baghdad (c) Chernobyl, Ukraine

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Dance legend Fred Astaire developed an obsession that led to hospitalisation with a broken wrist at the age of 77. What was it?

(a) Skateboarding

(b) Hip-hop

(c) Basketball