1. 

   What are the names of the vessels that had a contretemps in the Channel/La Manche (rayer la mention inutile) this week?

   1. Steady Intentions and the Admiral Kuznetsov

   2. Soft Horizon and the Admiral Nevsky

   3. Bright Future and the Admiral Grigorovich

   4. Boney M and the Admiral Ra-Ra-Rasputin

2. 

   Swiss voters (pictured) rejected a referendum proposal to cap the population at what?

   1. 10 million

   2. 12 million

   3. 14 million

   4. X Æ A-12

3. 

   Lovely Rosamund Pike keeps getting into the quiz because things keep disrupting her performances at the theatre. What happened this time?

   1. A phone alarm went off in the front row

   2. Someone started filming with their flashlight on from the balcony

   3. There was a power cut

   4. A very naughty miniature dachshund stormed the stage

4. 

   Lovely Lewis Hamilton drove his car (not pictured) around in circles faster than anybody else drove their car around in circles, and so won his first F1 Grand Prix for donkey's years. Where?

   1. The Italian Grand Prix

   2. The Austrian Grand Prix

   3. The Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix

   4. The Klow-Syldavia Grand Prix

5. 

   A moped stolen in 1984 – possibly by a racoon (pictured), it hasn't been ruled out – has been traced and returned to its rightful owner after four decades. Where?

   1. Chania, Crete

   2. Żabbar, Malta

   3. Vado Ligure, Italy

   4. Esposende, Portugal

6. 

   Which brand has had to apologise after the rotters appear to have featured a Japanese drum at a Chinese yoga festival?

   1. Gymshark

   2. Victoria's Secret

   3. Sweaty Betty

   4. Lululemon

7. 

   This week's guest canine is Fred, who the quiz master met at Ye Olde Rose and Crown, but who wouldn't look at the camera. Tell Fred who has been recently appointed the Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of contemporary theatre at St Catherine’s College, Oxford?

   1. Sally Phillips

   2. Tilda Swinton

   3. Catherine Tate

   4. Cate Blanchett

8. 

   Which Radio 4 programme is being axed after 50 years?

   1. Front Row

   2. The World Tonight

   3. Feedback

   4. World At One

9. 

   The artist JR has turned which famous Paris bridge (not pictured – that's the Eiffel Tower, obviously) into a cave-like installation?

   1. Pont Alexandre III

   2. Pont de Bir-Hakeim

   3. Pont Neuf

   4. Pont au Derek

10. 

    It is Alison Moyet's birthday today! Happy birthday, Alison! Yazoo! Where does she come from?

    1. Basildon

    2. Gosport

    3. Hatfield

    4. Crawley

11. 

    Who rocked the Fifa World Cup world by being the tiny nation who drew 0-0 with Spain this week?

    1. Curaçao

    2. Cape Verde

    3. Haiti

    4. Borduria

12. 

    A guest feline (not pictured) stole the scene at the performance by the Imperial Russian Ballet Company in Izmir, Turkey. Which ballet were they putting on?

    1. Swan Lake

    2. The Music of Erich Zann

    3. Romeo and Juliet

    4. The Sleeping Beauty

13. 

    CBS has reached an agreement over Stephen Colbert’s use of which music on his final The Late Show?

    1. Pokémon

    2. Pink Panther

    3. Power Rangers

    4. Peanuts

14. 

    On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 18 June is the anniversary of a woman being fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 US presidential election. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen's legendary guitarist wants you to tell him – and his badger – who …

    1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    2. Susan B Anthony

    3. Sojourner Truth

    4. Carrie Chapman Catt

15. 

    Investigators in Japan (pictured – the country, not the investigators) have raided six companies accusing them of being a cartel conspiring to fix the price of what?

    1. Ice cream

    2. Wholesale noodle sales

    3. Beer

    4. Feral hogs

Solutions

1:C - The Russian frigate took a couple of warning potshots at the yacht crewed by a retired British couple when it got too close, 2:A - Under the proposals, if the threshold of 10 million people was exceeded before 2050, the Swiss government would have been obliged to withdraw from the country’s free movement agreement with the EU, 3:A - The actor berated an audience member earlier this month for texting on their phone during the performance. Good for her, 4:C - The seven-time world champion ended a sequence of 41 grands prix without a win, bless him, 5:C - A distinguishing feature of the stolen Garelli was that it did not have a licence plate because registration was not legally required on 50cc mopeds in Italy until 1994. A 64-year-old man was on the moped, not a racoon, 6:D - More than 2,000 people were invited to take part in the event, which was accused of using a Japanese taiko instrument rather than a Chinese dagu drum, considered by some an insult, 7:D - Blanchett described the appointment as an electrifying opportunity, following in the footsteps of Ian McKellen, Meera Syal, Tom Stoppard, Adjoa Andoh, Stephen Fry, Diana Rigg and others, 8:B - The 45-minute news programme, broadcast every weekday evening on Radio 4, is one of the first victims of a savings drive, 9:C - Vast swathes of fabric, woven to look like the stone on which Paris is built, have been inflated over the bridge, creating an art installation called La Caverne, 10:A - She was born in Billericay, and was raised in the nearby town of Basildon, where Depeche Mode also lived, hence her and Vince Clarke getting their Yazoo on for a couple of classic albums, 11:B - Their 40-year-old keeper made a string of saves as Spain had 27 shots on goal without managing to get one in the onion bag, 12:C - The cat had a lie-down, licked itself, and was generally more entertaining than ballet, 13:D - Louis Cato and the Great Big Joy Machine performed the song, titled Linus and Lucy, on air. Lee Mendelson Film Productions, the California company that controls jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi’s famed Peanuts catalog, are donating the profits from reaching a licensing agreement with CBS to charity, 14:B - The judge in the case bizarrely found that it would not have violated the US constitution for the state of New York to bar over-80s, those with a particular colour hair, or those who had no limbs from voting, so it was perfectly entitled to bar women from voting, 15:A - Senior executives in the companies face allegations they held meetings and exchanged emails for years to coordinate the timing and scale of retail price rises for ice-creams and other frozen desserts

Scores

1. 0 and above.

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