1. 

   Where (not pictured) did the shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner happen?

   1. Waldorf Astoria Washington DC

   2. Washington Hilton

   3. Washington Marriott at Metro Center

   4. Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Philadelphia

2. 

   Who (not pictured) then inexplicably described experiencing the White House correspondents' dinner shooting as 'awesome'?

   1. WWE co-founder Vince McMahon

   2. Internet-era showman Logan Paul

   3. UFC president Dana White

   4. Briefly British prime minister Liz Truss

3. 

   Who (also not pictured), stopped a performance of Dracula this week at the Noël Coward theatre when they spotted someone in the crowd filming the performance?

   1. Sophie Okonedo

   2. Cynthia Erivo

   3. Michaela Coel

   4. Sheila Atim

4. 

   Who (still not pictured) finished the men's London Marathon in an unprecedented one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds?

   1. Ariyon Bakare

   2. Sabastian Sawe

   3. Yomif Kejelcha

   4. Ron from Sparks

5. 

   Which nation announced this week it was leaving the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Opec?

   1. United Arab Emirates

   2. Kuwait

   3. Iran

   4. Syldavia

6. 

   Here's Melvyn Bragg, he loves a flag. Which of these island countries has a flag that features a representative map of the island on it?

   1. Malta

   2. Bermuda

   3. Cyprus

   4. Maldives

7. 

   As well as the Thursday quiz having a birthday, it is Kirsten Dunst's birthday today, too. Happy birthday, Kirsten! Who does she play in the Spider-Man movies?

   1. Pamela Isley

   2. Perpugilliam Brown

   3. Gwen Stacy

   4. Mary Jane Watson

8. 

   Rochdale played York City at the weekend (pictured), marking the climax of an astonishing National League season in which both teams amassed more than 100 points. What happened?

   1. Rochdale beat York City, becoming champions and promoted to EFL League Two

   2. York City beat Rochdale, becoming champions and promoted to EFL League Two

   3. The two sides drew, and so Rochdale became champions and were promoted to EFL League Two

   4. The two sides drew, and so York City became champions and were promoted to EFL League Two

9. 

   Farther or nearer with Alan Shearer! This week we imagine the England soccer legend wants to know, if he leaves his hometown of Newcastle upon Tyne, which – as the crow flies and according to freemaptools.com – is farther or nearer – Rochdale, Greater Manchester, or York, North Yorkshire?

   1. Rochdale is nearer to Newcastle than York

   2. York is nearer to Newcastle than Rochdale

10. 

    Here is Karl-Heinz, with his opening lines, which almost rhymes. This week the Thursday quiz imagines the German soccer ace would like to know where David Bowie was pootling about in Berlin in the opening line of surprise 2013 comeback Where Are We Now?

    1. Nürnberger Strasse

    2. Bösebrücke

    3. Potsdamer Platz

    4. Dreißig bis fünfzig verwilderte Wildschweine

11. 

    This week's guest floof is Arnie, who was just four months old when this picture was taken. The Thursday quiz met him in Westcliff-on-Sea. Arnie loved hearing that a critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time using a canopy bridge to cross a road. It happened in the Pakpak Bharat district of North Sumatra. In which country?

    1. Indonesia

    2. Sri Lanka

    3. Malaysia

    4. Borduria

12. 

    People in which Italian city have said they are honoured at the prospect of Dua Lipa and Callum Turner (both pictured) maybe getting married there this summer?

    1. Bari

    2. Palermo

    3. Perugia

    4. Ravenna

13. 

    The Thursday quiz fondly remembers Keith Chegwin, so here is Cheggers plays population! According to the 2026 CIA World Factbook, what is the population of Portugal?

    1. 7.2 million

    2. 10.2 million

    3. 13.2 million

    4. 16.2 million

14. 

    On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 30 April is the anniversary of a significant bus boycott starting in an English city over racial discrimination. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – where and when …

    1. The Brighton bus boycott of 1959

    2. The Birmingham bus boycott of 1961

    3. The Bristol bus boycott of 1963

    4. The Bradford bus boycott of 1965

15. 

    And finally … what is the name of the rare axolotl (not this exact one pictured) discovered in the village of Merthyr Mawr near Bridgend?

    1. Dippy

    2. Dribble

    3. Dizzle

    4. Derek

Solutions

1:B - It is the traditional host venue of the annual shindig when the Washington press corps get together, often with the president attending, but not always featuring an assassination attempt, 2:C - White, a long-time ally of Donald Trump, said: 'All of a sudden, it just started getting noisy. Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming "Get down!" I didn’t get down – it was fucking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience.', 3:B - A representative for the production, in which Erivo plays all 23 roles, confirmed the incident had caused a short pause, 4:B - As Thursday quiz colleague Sean Ingle put it, imagine running 100 metres in under 17 seconds – and then ­keeping that pace up for another 26 and a bit miles. It would take one hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds for the Thursday quiz to do up its laces, 5:A - The shock loss of the UAE, Opec’s third-largest oil producer, is expected to weaken the group, which for decades has worked together to use its collective production might to influence global oil market prices, 6:C - The flag features an outline of the whole island, despite Cyprus's divided nature, and two olive branches that were intended to symbolise peace between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots. We are a curious species, 7:D - Dunst played the role in three movies between 2002 and 2007, 8:D - A York City equaliser in the 103rd minute, after Rochdale had taken the lead in the 95th minute, sealed the title for the Minstermen, 9:B - York is only about 73.3 miles (118km) away from Newcastle, whereas Rochdale is about 96.3 miles away, a difference of about 77,700 ancient Sumerian cubits. Top bins!, 10:C - Bowie sang: 'Had to get the train from Potsdamer Platz. You never knew that, that I could do that', 11:A - This is the first time the species has been caught on camera crossing a wildlife bridge, offering a glimmer of hope to conservationists worried that this population would become functionally extinct if it were sequestered in one part of the forest, 12:B - 'I was honoured to welcome her to my venue,' Alessandro Minnone, the owner of Colletti, a bar in the city centre, told the Guardian. Good for them all, 13:B - That is according to the archived internet version of the 2026 CIA World Factbook, which has been discontinued by the Trump administration, 14:C - The West Indian Development Council started a boycott of the Bristol Omnibus Company's buses, which lasted for four months until the company (and Transport and General Workers' Union) backed down and overturned a policy of refusing to employ Black or Asian bus crews, 15:A - Awwwwwwwwww

Scores

1. 0 and above.

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