THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

1 A “rooftop land grab” is apparently under way in London as developers seek to secure the topmost floor of buildings for repurposing as what? (a) Penthouses for plutocrats

(b) Vegetable and herb gardens for restaurants (c) Flying taxi landing pads

2 Theresa May has said that she won’t write a tell-all political autobiography, as David Cameron did last month with For the Record, but that she may write a book about her love of...

(a) Dancing

(b) Walking

(c) Brussels

3 Kites, drones, pigeons, balloons, lanterns and other airborne objects were banned from the skies above which city on Oct 1?

(a) Beijing

(b) London

(c) Moscow

4 What might one expect to find in the so-called “Goldilocks Zone”? (a) Porridge

(b) Habitable planets

(c) Blondes

5 Where, according to scientists who have studied the matter, is the most pleasurable spot on the human body to scratch an itch?

(a) Ankle

(b) You know, er, “down there”

(c) Earlobe

6 Conservationists have intervened to double England’s population of… (a) Red squirrels

(b) Tories

(c) Pine martens

7 Which of these was designated a national treasure in 1997 by the US Library of Congress?

(a) The Dukes of Hazzard’s car General Lee

(b) The Grateful Dead’s song Truckin’

(c) The champion “monster truck” Grave Digger

8 An old Finnish saying advises that one should behave in the sauna as one would in…

(a) The pub

(b) Church

(c) Parliament

9 In Scotland, a supermarket robot named Fabio was first relegated to the charcuterie aisle, and then fired after customer complaints. What was the issue with Fabio?

(a) Creepy

(b) Handsy

(c) Clumsy

10 A doting husband took to Instagram to praise his wife on her birthday. “Improperly seasoned food hurts her feelings,” he noted, but she remains “the greatest human being ever”. Who is she?

(a) Mary Berry

(b) Nigella Lawson

(c) Gwyneth Paltrow

11 Who or what are Vilyuchinsk, Dikson and Tsiolkovsky? (a) Midfielders for CSKA Moscow

(b) Protest folk singers, “the Russian Crosby, Stills and Nash”

(c) “Closed” cities in Russia

12 According to The Daily Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, if Rembrandt were alive today, he would be...

(a) On Instagram

(b) A cinematographer (c) In rehab