THE SUNDAY QUIZ

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

1 It has been alleged in court that two of the Queen’s Grenadier Guardsmen performed what?

(a) Seven armed robberies in three days (b) Somersaults on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace

(c) A 15-minute drag routine in a Windsor pub

2 47.2 years has been pinpointed by an academic at Dartmouth College as the age of peak what?

(a) Wealth

(b) Misery

(c) Sexual activity

4 Scientists at the University of Vermont have created a “living, programmable organism” or xenobot, using cells taken from what?

(a) Slugs

(b) Sausages

(c) Frogs

4 Erasmus, the European Union’s international education scheme, is named after a Dutch travelling scholar. Of which English school was Erasmus the co-founder?

(a) Eton College

(b) St Paul’s

(c) Hogwarts

5 After the break-up of his partnership with Paul Simon, what career did Art Garfunkel first pursue? (a) Airline pilot

(b) Maths teacher

(c) Chef

6 Thousands of French government employees will be obliged to employ Qwant from April onwards. What is Qwant?

(a) Quorn that is made in France

(b) An in-house currency linked to the euro

(c) “The Gallic Google”

7 Where, according to the Telegraph, were the Sandringham footmen confined during the Royal family’s “summit” on Monday? (a) The Lackeys’ Lobby (b) The Pages’ Vestibule (c) The Manservants’ Mess

8 What has Nigel Farage been forbidden from doing on the evening of January 31? (a) Letting off fireworks beside the Thames

(b) Running naked across Parliament Square

(c) His tax return

9 Britons are a strong presence within the international membership of the organisation TOOOL. What is this entity?

(a) Teachers of Obscure Oriental Languages

(b) The Open Organisation of Lockpickers

(c) Trappist Order of Observant Layfolk

10

What percentage of UK primary school children’s packed lunches meet all the Government’s basic nutritional standards?

(a) 60 per cent

(b) 16 per cent

(c) 1.6 per cent

11

Who or what are Foxwhelp, Scarlet Nonpareil and Kingston Black? (a) Characters in the new James Bond film,

No Time to Die

(b) Apples

(c) Racehorses entered for this year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup

12

Amazon has claimed that there has been “improper direct intervention” by president Trump in the Jedi process. What is the Jedi process? (a) Overhaul of the Pentagon’s IT system

(b) Appointment of intergalactic ambassadors (c) Contract for virtual security guards for US government premises