{"id":632798,"date":"2026-06-11T09:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632798\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T09:30:17","slug":"thursday-news-quiz-a-resigning-boss-buffys-loss-and-a-theatre-getting-cross-life-and-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632798\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday news quiz: A resigning boss, Buffy\u2019s loss and a theatre getting cross | Life and style"},"content":{"rendered":"

The men\u2019s Fifa World Cup starts today, and the challenge before the quiz master is to stay up all night every night watching tons of meaningless group matches between the likes of Syldavia and Borduria to keep up a record of not having missed a single World Cup game since 1978, while also continuing to function as a normal living member of society, rather than as an exhausted zombie.<\/p>\n

The challenge before you, however, is simple: 15 questions on topical news, general knowledge and popular culture. There are no prizes, but equally you don\u2019t have to stay up for a 3am kick-off. Have fun. Allons-y!<\/p>\n

The Thursday news quiz, No 251<\/p>\n

1.Record numbers of what found off the south-west coast of England last year have now spread as far as Scotland (pictured) and Wales?\"Aerial<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

2.Where has Starbucks faced a consumer backlash and senior executives resigning after it launched a marketing campaign called Tank Day that coincided with the anniversary of a massacre of a pro-democracy demonstration?\"A<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

3.The Thursday quiz was immensely saddened by the death of Anthony Head, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ted Lasso, Doctor Who, coffee adverts, and by all accounts an all-round good egg. What was the name of his character in Buffy?\"Anthony<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

4.More than a million people turned up to see the pope deliver an open air mass in which European capital city at the weekend?\"Pope<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

5.Which US city has voted for a year-long ban on new AI datacentres (not pictured)?\"Two<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

6.Send Derren Brown today’s collective noun. Use your psychic powers to let him know the collective noun for chimpanzees.\"Derren<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

7.It is Hugh Laurie’s birthday today. Happy birthday Hugh! What is the first name of his character in House?\"Hugh<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

8.This week’s guest superhero is a Fathers 4 justice-style Spider-Man spotted in Brighton recently. He knows there has been a brouhaha about some fake AI videos depicting Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, and Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, having a dust-up, but on the set of which BBC programme?\"A<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

9.Scores on the doors with Swindon’s Diana Dors! This week, with the tournament starting today, the Thursday quiz imagines the statue wants you to remind her of the score at the end of extra time of the last World Cup final.\"The<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

10.Talking of the World Cup, organisers have made a U-turn on a proposed ban and will now allow what (not pictured \u2013 that’s just a Netherlands fan with a massive cheese on her head) into stadiums?\"A<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

11.Whose company was named as the fastest-growing business in Britain?\"Money\"<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

12.Boffins who study people (the correct technical term) have discovered that on the whole we all prefer to walk which way?\"Very<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

13.The Shacklewell Arms is one of the Thursday quiz’s favourite small gig venues in London, where it has seen up-and-coming young bands such as Pit Pony, Deep Tan, Wych Elm (pictured) and Dream Phone. But which superstar unexpectedly played there at the weekend?\"Wych<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

14.On this day with Brian May! And his badger! 11 June is the anniversary of Diane Abbott being elected to parliament as the UK’s first Black female MP. The Thursday quiz imagines Queen’s legendary guitarist wants you to tell him \u2013 and his badger \u2013 in which year.\"Brian<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

15.Audience members at a matinee performance of the Royal Shakespeare Company\u2019s production Tempest, starring Kenneth Branagh (pictured, left, not the other guy) as Prospero, complained it was ruined by what?\"King<\/p>\n

Reveal<\/p>\n

If you really do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers \u2013 and can show your working and are absolutely 100% positive you aren\u2019t attempting to factcheck a joke \u2013 you can complain about it in the comments below. Why not watch Dark Clouds<\/a> by Night Swimming instead?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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